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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset neurodegenerative disease with distinct genetic contributions.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is very much a disease of losses and adjustments.

Mutations in a gene called C9ORF72 are the most common genetic cause of ALS. These mutations are unique in that unlike most other ALS-linked genes, where there is often a mistake in a single piece of DNA, C9ORF72 mutations involve a section of DNA that is abnormally repeated hundreds or even thousands of times.

Dementia is becoming more prevalent with the aging of the baby boomer population and is imposing a major challenge to society, both from a financial and social perspective.

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.