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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,”...

A stroke occurs in Canada every seven minutes, and the survivors who develop aphasia often describe it as one of the most devastating losses imaginable. The ideas are still there. The person is still entirely present. But the words slip and stall, arriving wrong or not at all. How research is...

Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in the adult population with a very poor prognostic. Project Overview Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in the adult population with a very poor prognostic. The combination of surgery, chemotherapy and...

From left to right: Sylvain Baillet, James Carmichael, Shehroz Khan, Derya Sargin, and Nathan Spreng Together with the Alzheimer’s Association, Brain Canada is funding five research teams to develop preliminary data and apply knowledge to the fields of Alzheimer’s and all dementias. In partnership...

Three friends from Montmagny, Quebec, organized a 126-kilometer bike ride on August 8. Ride for Brains had a $2,000 fundraising goal, and for organizers Thomas Bérubé and François-Xavier Bois, the motivation to raise funds for brain research was deeply personal. PHOTO (from left to right): Sammy...

After losing nearly everything after surviving a spontaneous brain bleed, Bob Murphy is now an advocate for those on disability and experiencing food scarcity. In early 2011, on a Sunday morning, Bob was heading out to play golf with his friends when he got a headache. He waved down an unmarked...

Among the earliest signs of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are navigation impairments and the presence of abnormal Tau (aTau) proteins in the entorhinal cortex (EC), a brain region that represents space and movement. Project Overview Among the earliest signs of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease...