Funded Grants

In Canada, over 140,000 children and teenagers suffer a brain injury each year due to trauma, stroke, cerebral palsy, and brain cancer.

Schizophrenia is a common and serious mental illness characterized by psychotic symptoms, social withdrawal and functional disabilities that are generally lifelong.

The retina is the part of the eye that is responsible for processing visual information.

Neurons are cells with long extensions that send information from one part of the nervous system to another.

Psychiatry, like all areas of medicine and biology, has long considered the origins of individual differences.

Dr. Jean-François Trempe, is a post-doctoral student at McGill University.

Dr. Scott and his research team focus on how feedback to the primary motor cortex, which is a key region in the brain for voluntary control, interacts with spinal activity.

The aims of the proposal were to examine the mechanism of how dopamine neurons degenerate in Parkinson (PD) animal models.

Converging research efforts have recently identified five genes that are associated with familial Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a condition associated with severe motor dysfunction and loss of dopamine-producing cells in the brain.

Communication between brain cells is essential for normal brain function.