Funded Grants

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.

Jude Frie, a doctoral candidate at the University of Guelph, investigates the effects nicotine vaping has on the brain and behaviour using advanced imaging techniques in rat models of nicotine vapour exposure.

Logan Froese is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba, whose work focuses on the evaluation of high-frequency data of cardiovascular and neurovascular physiology to improve personalized patient assessment and care.

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.

Allison A. Dilliot is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University who, through DNA sequencing, is looking to identify structural variant signatures unique to ALS cases.

There is a pressing unmet need to develop novel therapies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and self-injurious behaviours (SIB).

Roughly 10-20% of people self-report use of cannabis during pregnancy.

Frequent heavy use of cannabis is increasingly common in young Canadians.

One hundred and forty-four thousand Canadians suffer a diagnosed concussion each year.

Annually, approximately 250,000 people in Canada sustain a concussion.