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This project focuses on how inflammation, without an infection, can alter brain development when a baby was exposed during pregnancy. Project Overview This project focuses on how inflammation, without an infection, can alter brain development when a baby was exposed during pregnancy. Marie-Eve...

For years, interior designer Raija Hilska felt like she was “always dragging something along”. Deep melancholy, profound sadness, raw emotions and, sometimes, thoughts of suicide. Raija Hilska is undergoing regular non-invasive brain stimulation treatments at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health...

A major clinical trial of accelerated theta-burst brain stimulation, funded by Brain Canada and Bell Let’s Talk, holds the promise of potentially easing the debilitating symptoms of treatment-resistant depression within a week. Clinical trial probes accelerated delivery of non-invasive brain...

Currently, AD diagnosis can only be confirmed post-mortem by observing two AD hallmarks in the brain, β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and tau strands. Project Overview Currently, AD diagnosis can only be confirmed post-mortem by observing two AD hallmarks in the brain, β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and tau...

Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez runs the NINET (Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies) Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. His promising research looks at how Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a non-invasive therapy, can relieve symptoms of major depression, obsessive-compulsive...

Neuroscientists and engineers at the University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, and University Health Network and Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute have joined together to develop a novel next generation non-invasive treatment technique, MR guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS), for two...

The broad aim of this project is to develop and evaluate nonlinear registration techniques that account for discontinuities in data from tissue resection in order to accurately reflect the deformed brain. Project Overview The broad aim of this project is to develop and evaluate nonlinear...

The will combine the expertise of four very different investigators and laboratories from Montana and Canada with complementary interests and skills to tackle a fundamental problem in imaging of the activity of the living brain. Project Overview The will combine the expertise of four very...

Dr. Alex Parker, at the Centre de recherche du CHUM, Université de Montreal, is one of the first two recipients of the newly introduced three-year, $300,000 ALS Canada–Brain Canada Discovery Grant. Dr. Parker’s grant was funded in generous partnership with Dr. Jean-Pierre Canuel Fund – SLA Québec....

Brain Canada Foundation is pleased to announce the first in a series of new funding opportunities to arise from the additional $40 million in matched funding committed by the Government of Canada in Budget 2019. With funding to start in 2020, the 2019 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research...