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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.

Epilepsy is a debilitating disease affecting 1% of the world’s population.

Autism is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders in Canada. It has a profound impact on the health, wellness and socioeconomic wellbeing of the patients and their families.

Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that usually begin during adolescence.

Working memory is our ability “keep in mind” information and manipulate it when it is not present in the environment.

Marie-Kim is a doctoral student at the University of Laval who is conducting research on dark microglia’s ultrastructural features and its interactions with hallmarks of amyloid deposition.

Courtney Bannerman is a doctoral candidate at Queen's University who is conducting research to better understand how the nervous system interacts with the immune system during spinal cord injury pain and  those interactions can be changed to offer patients pain relief.

Sara de la Salle’s, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research,  research assessed differences in brain electrical responses to target, distractor, and trauma-related (e.g., gunshots, screams) sounds, and examined their relationship with symptoms in individuals with dissociative and non-dissociative PTSD subtypes.