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Sylvie Lesuis is a postdoctoral fellow who is conducting research to decipher the key pathways that underlie stress-induced overgeneralization of memory at the behavioural, network dynamics and cellular level.

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour of childhood, affecting 60-80 Canadian children per year.

Rett syndrome is a severe neurological disorder that is caused by genetic mutations in the MECP2 gene.

An enormous amount of brain development occurs throughout childhood and experiencing a concussion during this time may have long-lasting effects.

Brain scans from MRI machines are an important research tool for studying psychiatric and neurological disorders in children.

The hippocampus is the brain region which shows the most severe changes in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Neonatal strokes occur in approximately 1 in 1500 term births and is the leading cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP).

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease involving the gradual death of motor neurons. Motor neurons control the body’s movement.

We live in a world profoundly shaped by social behaviours involving interactions and communications between conspecifics of a given species.