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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Making Yourself Matter: the Science of Self-Awareness

By Veronica Zuccala, Department of Neuroscience The spread of COVID-19 has created stress worldwide and continues to disrupt our day-to-day lives, making it very difficult to sustain healthy habits. Even as we seek to find a new normal, health care professionals and public figures continue to encourage us to “stay home” and “take time... More

Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Social Media Megaphone: Good or Bad?

By Jyllenna Wilke, Department of Neuroscience Before the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled COVID-19 a pandemic, they had declared an infodemic. They defined this as “an overabundance of information (some accurate and some not) that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and guidance when they need it”. In the media, as... More

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

A Call to Action: Collaboration and Teamwork in Scientific Research in Grenada

By Nick Dirienzo, Department of Health Sciences (Carleton University) & Julia Walker, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Dalhousie University) Any time you want to achieve something great, collaboration and teamwork are a necessity, not an option. You learn this one way or another if you have ever pursued greatness, whether in the... More

Sunday, January 19, 2020

A Semester as Sally: Understanding Student Stress and Mental Health

By Sabina Franklyn, Department of Psychology Since a few catchy news articles in the popular media back in 2012 pointing to a mental health crisis at universities in Canada, the seriousness of mental health issues on our campuses has been increasingly recognized (Lunau, 2012). A survey conducted at McMaster University in Ontario triggered... More

Sunday, December 1, 2019

“I’m tired” – the cause of the hallmark university student statement debunked

By Olivia Richards, Department of Psychology “I’m tired!” This phrase is well used, if not excessively among students on any university campus. Students are notorious for proclaiming their exhaustion, their desire for sleep, and their inability to withstand an entire lecture without dozing off. It appears that a student’s view on the... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Exploring Links between Bonds with Pets & Human Well-Being

By Maria Pranschke, M.Sc., Department of Neuroscience Can having a pet improve your health? Ask any pet owner with a close relationship to their dog or cat and you’ll probably get a resounding “Yes!” Many researchers will also tell you that the scientific findings regarding the association between having pets and health look pretty... More

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

A Healthy Gut: A Promising Solution for Anxiety

By Chaya Kandegedara, M.Sc., Department of Neuroscience It is quite likely that you know someone – a close friend, a relative, or even yourself – who suffers from anxiety. With increasing stress and demands from social media, work, and day-to-day life, the incidence of anxiety has increased, and generalized anxiety disorder can affect up... More

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The Power of Peer Support

The issue: Loneliness and social isolation among older adults. Social isolation and loneliness are two issues that have been identified as common among older adults, including those living in long-term care (LTC) or retirement homes (Theurer et al., 2015). Indeed, estimates may be as high as half of all residents feeling lonely (Drageset,... More

Saturday, November 10, 2018

The Mentor Perspective of the ONE H.E.A.L.t.H Student Challenge 2018

As our ONE HEALtH Student Challenge 2018 is nearing its end, we are catching up with our senior and graduate student mentors to find out more about their experiences with the challenge. *** The mentors come from a variety of backgrounds including cognitive science, psychology, biology, health sciences, and philanthropy and non-profit leadership.... More

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

ONE HEALtH Student Challenge 2018 Launch

This past Friday, the CHAIM Centre hosted the official launch event for the ONE HEALtH Student Challenge 2018. The event was marked with fabulous speakers, whose personal and professional stories gave the student participants great insight into a One Health perspective, and into the Challenge itself. The One Health approach focuses on the... More

Saturday, January 20, 2018

The CHAIM Centre’s Collaboration with Carleton Psychologists

Health research at Carleton University is growing within many departments across faculties. Researchers are generally aware of the health-related research within their own department, but our research would be enriched and have broader application if we were able to identify potential collaborators we might never otherwise be exposed to because... More

Monday, August 14, 2017

Endlessly Curious

By: Miski Dahir Growing up, one of my favourite trips was to the doctor’s office. We would get in the car and drive to the doctor’s. I would sit in the waiting room, eagerly waiting for the moment the receptionist called out my name and said “please follow me to your room”. The doctor... More

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