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Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) often experience stress and mental health difficulties (e.g., anxiety, depression) Project Overview Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) often experience stress and mental health difficulties...

Prior research has shown that the immune system processes can influence risk of cognitive decline, but the exact mechanisms are not yet understood. Our hypothesis is that we can use genetics to better understand the relationship between the immune system and cognition. Project Overview Prior...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal disease that paralyzes people because the brain is no longer able to communicate with the muscles that we are typically able to move at will. Project Overview Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal disease that paralyzes people because...

Dr. Jonathan Smirl's lab at the University of Calgary. Brain Canada Foundation (Brain Canada), Brain Changes Initiative (BCI), and Branch Out Neurological Foundation, are thrilled to announce Dr. Jonathan Smirl from the University of Calgary as the recipient of the Brain Changes Initiative Award...

A growing number of kids’ brains have likely been spared injury thanks to enhanced safety guidelines informed by a large-scale Brain Canada-funded research platform. A series of studies made possible by the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM) at Western University (Western) in London,...

New research funding will enable optimal wellness and health outcomes for people living with CHD, their families, and caregivers Heart & Stroke, together with Brain Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health and Institute of Genetics,...

The Challenge: Current therapies for treating a number of mental health disorders – depression, anxiety, and PTSD, among them – adequately treat only a small fraction of afflicted patients. Project Overview The Challenge: Current therapies for treating a number of mental health disorders –...

The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) is a national platform for open sharing of neuroscience research data and brings together many of the country’s leading scientists in basic and clinical neuroscience to form an interactive network of collaborations in brain research, interdisciplinary...

NAOMI AZRIELI CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL DECEMBER 27, 2017   Naomi Azrieli is chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation and chair of Brain Canada Fifty years ago, when someone was diagnosed with cancer, it was often an automatic death sentence. Likewise at that time, a heart attack was met...

Microglia are the brain’s immune cells, and their role is to protect the brain. Project Overview Microglia are the brain’s immune cells, and their role is to protect the brain. Yet in Alzheimer’s disease, these cells are often found diseased as well. In a brain with Alzheimer’s disease, the...