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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.

The formation of our memories is a behaviour that encapsulates both long-and-short time scales.

Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive and fatal disease that currently afflicts up to 400,000 Canadians over the age of 65.

Many people with Parkinson’s disease have trouble with freezing of gait (FoG), a symptom that causes them to stop walking unexpectedly and makes them more likely to fall.

How does the wiring of the brain confer cognitive capacity?

The choroid plexus (CP) is a secretory tissue found in each of the brain ventricles.

The brain is vulnerable to many disorders that can strike at every stage of life.

Circadian, or 24-hour, rhythms control almost all biological systems in our bodies with sleep-wake cycles and body temperature control the best known examples.

Attention is an incompletely understood, complex process that requires precise coordination of brain rhythms within the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).