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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.

Slow oscillations (SOs) measured using electroencephalography (EEG) are a common feature of states with little to no conscious experience, such as coma, sleep, and anesthesia.

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.

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.

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.

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.