Media Coverage
Centre members frequently receive media attention for their research developments and findings. Here are links to some of the media coverage from 2013:
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December – Archived Lists
Communications or media inquiries: communications@brain.ubc.ca
January 2013
- Janet Werker – Study: Babies know native, foreign language sounds at birth (CBS)
- Judy Illes — Neurolaw changes idea of responsibility (Edmonton Journal)
- Adele Diamond — Pass the marshmallow test? Your brain’s more efficient: study (Globe & Mail)
- Clyde Hertzman — How poverty influences a child’s brain development (Globe & Mail)
- Linda Siegel — Can a controversial learning program transform brains? (Globe & Mail)
- Ruth Grunau — Pediatric pain (Maclean’s)
February 2013
- Judy Illes — Understanding of consciousness progresses slowly (Vancouver Sun)
- Ian Mackenzie — Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified (Fox News)
- Adele Diamond — Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart? (New York Times)
- Janet Werker — Bilingual babies not overburdened by demands of two languages (Globe & Mail)
- Janet Werker — How bilingual babies keep languages separate (Yahoo News)
- Filip Van Petegem — UBC researchers use synchrotron to study heart arrhythmia (Vancouver Sun, as well as similar stories on CTV News, Global TV Toronto, and elsewhere)
March 2013
- Matthew Farrer — From Parkinson’s to climate change: The problems Canada’s Research Chairs are solving (Globe & Mail)
- Wilf Jefferies – UBC study targets Alzheimer’s disease (Vancouver Sun)
- Judy Illes — Drinking while pregnant (Scientific American MIND – letters)
- Sun Nee Tan (Martin McKeown) – UBC’s three-minute-thesis event is a cram session in the truest sense (Globe & Mail)
- Jean-Sebastien Blouin — Empowered Health — New research on whiplash (Vancouver Sun)
April 2013
- Kevin Gregory-Evans — AMD supplements can help, but beware of unproved promises (Globe & Mail)
- Ian Mackenzie — Former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein a recognizable face for unknown dementia (Huffington Post)
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose — How exercise may help memory (New York Times)
- Ray Lam – Depression, bipolar disorder the focus of new research at UBC (Vancouver Sun)
- Jason Barton — The man with uncrossed eyes (Discover Magazine)
- Peter Cripton — Funding for spinal injury research (CBC Vancouver)
- Jason Barton – Scientists use brain scans to reveal how a man with ‘uncrossed eyes’ is still able to see (UK Daily Mail)
May 2013
- Peter Reiner — You can’t really get smarter by zapping your head with electricity, can you? (Slate)
- Peter Reiner — Electrical brain stimulation helps people learn math faster (Wired)
- Peter Reiner — Trouble with math? Maybe you should get your head zapped (Science Now)
- Judy Illes – Wir werden uns immer ein Stück weit ein Geheimnis blei (“Some of ourselves will always remain a mystery”) (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
