Maria Gobbo is the latest recipient of the ALS fellowship named in his honour

In 2010, former Montreal Alouette and McGill physical education instructor Tony Proudfoot passed away from ALS. Ten years later, his legacy lives on in a fund that helps train and support the next generation of leaders fighting this disease.

Classified as: ALS, ALS research, ALS Society of Quebec, Neuro
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Published on: 28 Jun 2021

Leading antibody reagent and knockout cell line manufacturers team up to address life science reproducibility crisis

YCharOS Inc., an open science company with the mission of characterizing commercially available antibody reagents for all human proteins, is pleased to announce the publication of its first characterization data and formation of its Industry Advisory Committee (IAC).

Classified as: Neuro, Peter McPherson, antibodies, YCharos, open science
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Published on: 22 Jun 2021

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds

 

Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.

Classified as: Sylvain Baillet, MEG, magnetoencephalography, autism, schizophrenia, Neuro
Published on: 11 May 2021

The BIC is pleased to share this video presentation from Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics Learning Laboratory, supported by HBHL.

Classified as: BIC, HBHL
Published on: 4 May 2021

Study uses sugar to make and deliver pudding-like brain implants that reduce foreign body response

Brain implants are used to treat neurological dysfunction, and their use for enhancing cognitive abilities is a promising field of research. Implants can be used to monitor brain activity or stimulate parts of the brain using electrical pulses. In epilepsy, for example, brain implants can determine where in the brain seizures are happening.

Classified as: Neuro, MNI, brain implants, Tim Kennedy, David Juncker, Edward Zhang
Published on: 4 May 2021

Brain Canada grant will aid research into neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders

 

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an important tool in understanding the mechanism of brain disorders. Research in the field has gotten a major boost thanks to a $1.85M grant from Brain Canada to support EEGNet, an open repository for EEG data that helps scientists investigate neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Classified as: Alan Evans, MNI, Neuro, EEG, Electroencephalography, Brain Canada, EEGNet
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Published on: 1 Apr 2021

Comparing two neural maps reveals the roles of genes in cognition, perception and feeling

Many psychiatric disorders have genetic causes, but the exact mechanism of how genes influence higher brain function remains a mystery. A new study provides a map linking the genetic signature of functions across the human brain, a tool that may provide new targets for future treatments.

Classified as: Neuro, bratislav misic, genetics, AI, Brain function
Published on: 25 Mar 2021

The Canada Foundation for Innovation supports innovative projects that tackle global challenges

Exciting initiatives involving researchers at The Neuro are among the latest getting support under The Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Innovation Fund competition.

Classified as: Neuro, Edward Fon, Robert Zatorre, CFI, brain plasticity, movement disorders, stuart trenholm, Edward Ruthazer, Neurodevelopment
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Published on: 19 Mar 2021

$4.67M from Brain Canada will help probe the brain’s mysteries and create international research links

Research at The Neuro’s McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of McGill University will receive a major boost thanks to a $4.67M grant from Brain Canada’s Platform Support Grant (PSG) program.

Classified as: BIC, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Brain Canada, Julien Doyon, brain imaging, Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute
Published on: 3 Mar 2021

Program brings together multidisciplinary teams with expertise in various areas of neurodegenerative disease

 

Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) make up a large part of eight projects funded by ALS Canada and the Brain Canada Foundation as part of their 2020 Discovery Grant Program, which brings together multidisciplinary research teams with expertise in various areas of ALS and neurodegenerative diseases to investigate critical areas of disease processes and clinical care.

Classified as: Neuro, ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Angela Genge, Gary Armstrong, Eric Shoubridge, Sali Farhan, Rami Massie, ALS Canada, Brain Canada, Montreal Neurological Institute
Published on: 15 Feb 2021

PET modeler and Physicist - job postings

The Research Imaging Centre (RIC) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto has two fulltime permanent positions, a PET physicist and a kinetic modeler. We are looking for motivated candidates to join the Image Methodology group within the RIC to develop methods, and provide strong scientific support, for both the pre-clinical and clinical PET programs in CAMH.

Please review the attached PDF for details.

Classified as: BIC
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Published on: 26 Jan 2021

Each year, five distinguished Canadian scholars are awarded the Killam Prize for their outstanding research across engineering, the humanities, social sciences, health sciences and natural sciences.  

In celebration of these winners’ contribution to Canada’s society and economy, TheFutureEconomy.ca interviewed each of the five outstanding researchers to share their discoveries with Canadians.

Classified as: BIC
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Published on: 20 Jan 2021

Neural “signature” may reflect how we respond to feelings of social isolation

This holiday season will be a lonely one for many people as social distancing due to COVID-19 continues, and it is important to understand how isolation affects our health. A new study shows a sort of signature in the brains of lonely people that make them distinct in fundamental ways, based on variations in the volume of different brain regions as well as based on how those regions communicate with one another across brain networks.

Classified as: loneliness, Nathan Spreng, Danilo Bzdok, Neuro, Alzheimer's disease, dementia
Published on: 15 Dec 2020

Large multi-site study accurately predicts damage to grey matter by disease

An international study has found a link between the brain’s network connections and grey matter atrophy caused by certain types of epilepsy, a major step forward in our understanding of the disease.

Classified as: epilepsy, Research, Boris Bernhardt, Neuroimaging and Neuroinformatics, open science, Sara Larivière, functional connectivity, Neuro
Published on: 2 Dec 2020

Doctor has dedicated his life to improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases and disorders

The Neuro’s director, Dr. Guy Rouleau, is being recognized with Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, for his outstanding contributions as a clinician-scientist and as a leader in health care.

Classified as: Neuro, Guy Rouleau, Order of Canada
Published on: 27 Nov 2020

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