Subventions financées

Neurons are cells with long extensions that send information from one part of the nervous system to another.

Psychiatry, like all areas of medicine and biology, has long considered the origins of individual differences.

Dr. Jean-François Trempe, is a post-doctoral student at McGill University.

Dr. Scott and his research team focus on how feedback to the primary motor cortex, which is a key region in the brain for voluntary control, interacts with spinal activity.

The aims of the proposal were to examine the mechanism of how dopamine neurons degenerate in Parkinson (PD) animal models.

Converging research efforts have recently identified five genes that are associated with familial Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a condition associated with severe motor dysfunction and loss of dopamine-producing cells in the brain.

Communication between brain cells is essential for normal brain function.

This research project, led by Dr. V. Wee Yong from the University of Calgary, focused on the immune system, which is comprised of two major components, the innate and adaptive systems. Innate immunity is the first immune component to sense and respond to an injury.

Pain affects millions of people worldwide and has a profound negative effect on quality of life.

Many nerve cells in the body are covered with a protective sheath known as myelin, which allows fast conduction of nerve impulses, and which is produced by two different types of cells called oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells.