Title: “Exercise-activated pathways to offset the metabolic side effects of anti-psychotic drugs” Speaker: David Wright, PhD (Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph) Second generation anti-psychotic (SGA) drugs are used in the management of schizophrenia and are increasingly being prescribed off-label for conditions including anxiety, bi-polar disorder and ADHD. While effective in […]
Speaker: Dr Diane Crone, Professor in Exercise and Health and Director of the Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research at the Cardiff Metropolitan University Host: Dr. Guy Faulkner, Professor, UBC School of Kinesiology Title: ‘We are a society … choked by inactivity’ WHO, 2018: Contemporary systems based approaches to physical activity promotion Diane Crone is a […]
Dr. Jean Côté is Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University where he served as the Director of the School from 2006-2019. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) and the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP). Dr. Côté’s research interests […]
From stem cells to performance: The role of skeletal muscle in challenging perceptions of human ageing Stephen Harridge obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham and then undertook 3 years of post-doctoral research in Scandinavia at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (Denmark) with Professor Bent Saltin. On return […]
Title: “The Role of Uncertainty in the Vestibular Control of Locomotion” Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin Committee members: Dr. Romeo Chua, Dr. Calvin Kuo Abstract: Uncertainty is present in all the inferences we make about the world and our orientation within it. When sensory or motor noise increases, confidence in our belief about our environment and self-motion […]