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PHOTO: From left to right: Jean-Pierre Perreault, Rector of the Université de Sherbrooke; Geneviève Hébert, Member of the National Assembly for Saint-François and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister Delegate for the Economy and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; Stéphanie McMahon, Director of...

Dr. Edward Fon, Scientific Director of the Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU) at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital). One of the major limitations in finding treatments for brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s has been the difficulty acquiring appropriate tissue samples...

PHOTO: From left: Dr. Florence Dzierszinski, The Royal; Katie Dinelle, The Royal, Dr. Viviane Poupon, Brain Canada President & CEO, and Parliamentary Secretary for Health Maggie Chi (CNW Group/Brain Canada) Brain Canada is proud to announce its support for the development of the Brain Imaging Centre...

Palliative care (PC) is an area of medicine that focuses on symptom control and quality of life of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families. Project Overview Palliative care (PC) is an area of medicine that focuses on symptom control and quality of life of patients with...

Every year, more than 80,000 Canadians experience cardiac arrest—a sudden event where the heart stops beating without warning. Thanks to advances in emergency care, we have become better at restarting the heart. Today, however, survival depends more on the brain than on the heart alone. Project...

Pain affects millions of people worldwide and has a profound negative effect on quality of life. Project Overview Pain affects millions of people worldwide and has a profound negative effect on quality of life. Untreated pain is the most common cause of disability that impairs life. Acute pain is a...

Recognizing emotions and intentions from facial expressions is crucial for human communication and social interaction. Project Overview Recognizing emotions and intentions from facial expressions is crucial for human communication and social interaction. While most adults can easily do this,...

Alzheimer’s disease causes progressive neurological decline and substantially decreases the quality of life of the individuals with the disease and their caregivers. Project Overview Alzheimer’s disease causes progressive neurological decline and substantially decreases the quality of life of the...

Chronic pain affects one in five Canadians and is more common in women than in men. Despite decades of research, many new pain treatments fail in clinical trials. A major reason for this is that we still do not fully understand how pain signals are processed in the human nervous system, or how...

Aberrant control of protein synthesis (also termed translation) leads to pathological conditions like cancer, obesity, memory impairment and has been hypothesized to cause the development of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Fragile-X syndrome (FXS). Project Overview Aberrant control of protein...