November 06, 2019
A recent Canadian study is showing that addressing housing needs for people who are living on the streets and struggling with mental illness could reduce homelessness in the long term. Brain Canada provided $100,000 to support the initial two-city pilot study in 2008.
November 06, 2019
Deleting an autism gene called TRIO derails neurons’ journey to their destination. Lara Eid received a 2018 Brain Canada - Kids Brain Health Network Training Award.
November 06, 2019
In a new study published today by Nature Communications, Adrian Owen and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge compared brain of patients in a vegetative state with those of healthy participants who were anaesthetized. Adrian Owen is the co-Director of CIFAR's Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness, which receives support from Brain Canada.
November 06, 2019
Scientists demonstrate flaws in protein detection tools, and outline a solution A new study points to the need for better antibody validation, and outlines a process that other labs can use to make sure the antibodies they work with function properly. This work was supported by an ALS Canada-Brain Canada Arthur J. Hudson Translational Team Grant.
October 03, 2019
Medical science has a deadly historical bias problem: until very recently, most studies only included males. The article features Dr. Jeffrey Mogil, and mentions research supported by the 2014 Brain Canada Team Grant he received.
October 03, 2019
New research has demonstrated that a quick, non-invasive eye scan can identify changes in the retina that could be used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. This research was supported by a CQDM - Brain Canada Focus on Brain Grant, led by Dr. Jean-Paul Soucy.
October 03, 2019
Scientists peered inside neurons and watched the workings of annexin A11, a gene linked to a rare form of ALS. They found that neurons may normally use the gene to ship internal housekeeping instructions via a newly discovered “hitchhiking” system and that disease-causing mutations may tie up deliveries at the cell’s loading docks. This research is supported by an ALS Society of Canada/Brain Canada Arthur J. Hudson Translational Team Grant.
September 16, 2019
Accounting for sex differences could be key for the development of better treatments as drug shows promise for brain repair in females. This research was supported by a Brain Canada Foundation - Weston Foundation Multi-Investigator Research Initiative (MIRI) grant.
August 08, 2019
Results suggest some forms of PD are an autoimmune disease triggered years before noticeable symptoms. Dr. Louis-Eric Trudeau was supported by a Brain Canada Team Grant.
July 10, 2019
The Working Mind First Responders (TWMFR) is a well-established training course that helps first responders link colours in the program’s mental health continuum model with their state of well-being. “The program is evidence based,” explained Mike Pietrus, the MHCC’s director of Mental Health First Aid and Opening Minds. “The MHCC is indebted to Medavie and Brain Canada for funding the development and assessment of the family package, which is proving to be highly effective.”
May 21, 2019
This research was supported by two Brain Canada grants, led by Viviane Labrie (in partnership with Alzheimer Society of Canada) and Arturas Petronis.
May 21, 2019
Canada has launched its first brain tumour registry in its battle to better treat the disease and avoid reliance on foreign data. The Brain Tumour Registry of Canada (BTRC) is funded by Brain Canada and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada through a Platform Support Grant, led by Faith Davis.
May 06, 2019
Blair Leavitt currently holds a Huntington Society of Canada - Brain Canada Team Grant.
May 03, 2019
This research was supported by a New Investigator Award (Viviane Labrie) from the Alzheimer Society of Canada and Brain Canada.
May 03, 2019
This research was supported by a New Investigator Award (Viviane Labrie) from the Alzheimer Society of Canada and Brain Canada.
May 01, 2019
This research was supported by an Impact Grant from the Canadian Cancer Society and Brain Canada, led by Michael Taylor.
May 01, 2019
The Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank was supported by a Brain Canada Platform Support Grant, led by Gustavo Turecki.
April 29, 2019
The study led by Tarek Rajji is supported by a Brain Canada Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life Team Grant.
April 29, 2019
PREVENT-AD is part of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP), which received a $10-M Brain Canada Platform Support Grant.
April 23, 2019
Two researchers from The Neuro are among just ten nationwide to receive Early-Career Capacity Building Grants this year from the Azrieli Foundation in partnership with the Brain Canada Foundation.
April 18, 2019
Edward Fon is the Principal Investigator on a grant titled "A Patient-Derived hiPSC Neuronal Platform for Drug Discovery in Parkinson’s Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," funded by CQDM and Brain Canada.
April 18, 2019
The PACt-MD study, the largest Canadian clinical trial on dementia prevention, is funded by Brain Canada and the Chagnon family.
March 27, 2019
For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing. All three scientists are part of the CIFAR program "Learning in Machines & Brains," of which Brain Canada is a partner.
March 01, 2019
This research was supported by a W. Garfield Weston Foundation - Brain Canada Team Grant, led by Michel Cayouette.