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Slow oscillations (SOs) measured using electroencephalography (EEG) are a common feature of states with little to no conscious experience, such as coma, sleep, and anesthesia.

Despite the recent advances in our understanding between the connection between the microbes living in the gut and our mental health, there remains a wide knowledge gap in understanding how the brain is negatively impacted in disorders with inflammation of the gut.

Astrocytes are a major type of cells that react to brain activity, injuries and diseases to help support optimal brain functions.

A significant proportion of critically ill children experience delirium, a form of brain dysfunction associated with adverse outcomes.

CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on WHO concepts, they present a holistic, strengths-based, function-promoting, family-centred approach to child health.

In Multiple Sclerosis (MS), new brain lesions appear because of inflammation and loss of myelin (the structure covering nerves).

Thousands of Canadian children living with severe physical disability are intellectually capable but unable to move independently.

The emerging consensus that the brain functions as a single, complex system has led to the popularity of a network approach to studying brain function.

Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited disorder that causes brain cells to die and impacts approximately 1 in 7000 Canadians.

Our ability to learn is directly proportional to our ability to detect the difference between a prediction and its outcome.