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Neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease profoundly affect aspects of cognition including memory

Brain-based disorders such as epilepsy, stroke, acquired brain injury, and Parkinson’s Disease impact tens of thousands of Canadians each year.

The recent breakthrough technology of single-cell genomics has vastly improved our capacity to understand how the trillions of cells in our body develop and work together to make us human.

In 2017, Canada saw 89,500 new strokes in people aged 20 and older and counted 878,500 people living with stroke.

Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder affect over 350 million people around the world.

Patients with neurological disease are understandably frustrated by the lack of meaningful pharmacological treatments for even comparatively common pathologies such as Parkinson’s Disease.

Injuries and diseases of the nervous system have devastating effects.

CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on WHO concepts, they present a holistic, strengths-based, function-promoting, family-centred approach to child health.

Autistic individuals are disproportionately under-represented in post-secondary institutions, with only 35% of students with autism pursuing post-secondary education.