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We are working on an innovative project to improve speech therapy for children who have trouble speaking or understanding language. Project Overview We are working on an innovative project to improve speech therapy for children who have trouble speaking or understanding language. We’re using a type...

Depression is a common mental health condition that affects millions of Canadians. Project Overview Depression is a common mental health condition that affects millions of Canadians. While there are treatment options available, some patients do not respond to conventional antidepressants and...

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative movement disorder. Project Overview Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative movement disorder. At the cellular level, one of the main features of Parkinson’s disease is the clumping of a protein called alpha-synuclein. The disease gets worse as this...

CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on WHO concepts, they present a holistic, strengths-based, function-promoting, family-centred approach to child health. Project Overview CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way...

hiPSC derived neurons The project A $1.5 million platform grant awarded by Brain Canada in 2015 in partnership with the Marigold Foundation, McGill University, the Quebec Pain Research Network, and the Réseau de médecine génétique appliquée, allowed Prinicpal Investigator Jack Puymirat and his team...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, leading to a gradual loss of nerve function. Canada—especially Saskatchewan—has the highest rates of MS in the world. Project Overview Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, leading to...

In early 2024, two outstanding trainees in brain health research—Dr. Natasha Clarke and Dr. Rikki Lissaman—each received a postdoctoral fellowship of $60,000 a year for two years through the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) Phase II Women, Sex and Gender in Dementia (WSGD)...

Approximately 1 in 5 adolescents who report having a concussion experience persistent and long-lasting emotional and behavioural challenges. The reasons why have been difficult to tease apart – until recently. Future Leader, Dr. Anne Wheeler and her research team studied pre- and post-concussion...

Dr. Gary Shaw is a biochemist at Western University and one of nine ALS Canada-Brain Canada Discovery Grant recipients for 2022. “It’s always really exciting when you get a research grant, because you’re using your ideas that you’ve researched in the literature and created new experiments around,”...