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Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults in Canada.

Prenatal alcohol exposure can result in abnormal brain development, causing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which is linked to a number of cognitive, behavioural, and immune deficits that last across the lifetime.

One of the major challenges facing the BRAIN initiative is the development of technologies that will enable the recording of neural activity throughout the entire volume of a rodent brain.

Stroke is the leading cause of disability among adults and one of the three leading causes of death in North America.

Stroke is the sudden death of brain cells caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain. Parts of the brain that enable us to walk and talk are often damaged most by a stroke.

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability. At present, there are no clear and effective therapies to aid the majority of patients who suffer stroke.

Stroke is a leading cause of adult long term disability and the third leading cause of death in industrialized countries.

The team wants to take a new breakthrough technology called Cyto-iGluSnFR (pronounced “sight-oh-eye-glue-sniffer”) and adapt it for the discovery of drugs to treat a variety of brain and eye diseases.

Stroke affects 17% of people worldwide and some estimates predict that it will soon become the most common cause of death worldwide.

The major objectives of this research program are to measure the function of the heart and blood vessels following SCI and to investigate the mechanisms that are responsible for any changes that occur.