Amazing Brain

The 2025 Amazing Brain Science Talks, presented by McGill University’s Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives in collaboration with Brain Canada and the Brain-Heart Interconnectome, explores the vital connections between brain and heart. The event featured leading Canadian researchers and advocates examining topics from concussion care and genetic testing to the heart-brain axis in bipolar disorder and innovative treatments for infant brain injury. With speakers including Roger Zemek from the University of Ottawa, Benjamin Goldstein from the University of Toronto, and community voices like patient advocate Kris Noakes, the 2025 Talks illuminate cutting-edge research and lived experiences that are shaping the future of neuroscience and cardiovascular health.

About Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives

Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) is an interdisciplinary program, built on McGill’s global leadership in interdisciplinary neuroscience, that uses big data analysis to reveal the fundamental mechanisms underlying normal brain function and brain disorders. HBHL aims to accelerate translational discoveries and create a global centre of excellence in neuroinformatics at McGill to improve brain health in Canada and around the world.

HBHL is made possible through support from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF), Quebec’s Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation (MEI), and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQS, FRQSC and FRQNT).