July 14, 2022
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December 02, 2021
Women’s Brain Health Day: Advocates say brain-aging disorders under-researched in women
WBHI works to address this disparity and was instrumental in getting December 2 recognized as Women’s Brain Health Day by the Canadian government in 2019.
November 12, 2021
RBC Foundation donates $2 million to help launch first-ever Brain Canada Youth Mental Health Platform
The Brain Canada Youth Mental Health Platform, powered by RBC Future Launch, will support a pioneering national project that will make meaningful advances in the field of youth mental health possible by enhancing existing technical and research capabilities of Canadian neuroscientists.
November 09, 2021
New portable MRI has the potential to change the future of healthcare
Dr. Shannon Kolind, a researcher at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at UBC, recently received one of the first Hyperfine portable MRI systems in Canada and will be investigating possible uses in research and clinical settings.