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As our brains age, they become vulnerable to diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease which can cause dementia.

Stroke is a life threatening emergency caused by blocked arteries that affects 45,000 Canadians a year. Each hour a stroke is left untreated means brain cells are dying.

Brain cancers can be exceptionally challenging to treat, and new therapies are needed.

Dr. Lutz is currently completing his post-doctoral fellowship entitled “Epigenetic mechanisms of childhood maltreatment”, in which he investigates the strong relationship between childhood malnutrition and mental health outcomes.

Dr. David and his research team are studying the mechanisms that control the delivery and release of iron in the nervous system.

Individuals with Alzheimer’s suffer severe memory loss over time, and eventually are completely dependent on caregivers.

Adolescence represents a unique developmental window of the life cycle to adopt healthy behaviours that will support psychosocial adjustment and well-being during adolescence and adulthood (World Health Organization, 2001).

Dr. Shmuel and his team are establishing a local platform which will support functional MRI (fMRI) in the alert non-human primate brain.

The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM) at Western’s Robarts Research Institute houses Canada’s only collection of high-field (3T human) and ultra-high field (7T human and 9.4T animal) MR systems.

The Toronto Dementia Research Alliance will establish a clinical research platform that will provide a consistent and efficient approach to managing research and clinical care in patients with neurodegenerative conditions.