July 22, 2024
Celebrating World Brain Day 2024
Every year on July 22, the world comes together to celebrate World Brain Day,…
News & Stories
2024 Trainee Endowment Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Trainee Endowment Awards! These awards recognize excellence in academics and research activities of our trainees. Special thanks to our donors and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience for their generous support. Leslie Ann Wyman Brain Tumour Research Endowment: Warren Meyers, PhD student Under the supervision of Dr. Kurt…
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DMCBH members awarded Spring 2024 CIHR project grants to support health research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring…
Research
July 16, 2024
DMCBH researchers aim to understand how the brain perceives texture with new OpenScope project
Our brains instantly recognize countless complex visual textures that surround us, from the intricate…
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In the Media
| Name | Media Outlet | Date | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Clark | The Globe and Mail | 02/07/2024 | Canada needs national strategy to monitor online gambling harms: report |
| Jason Barton | National Geographic | 26/06/2024 | Face blindness may be more common than previously thought |
| Judy Illes | Nature | 19/06/2024 | Human neuroscience is entering a new era — it mustn’t forget its human dimension |
| Daniel Vigo | CBC News | 05/06/2024 | Chief scientific adviser for psychiatry, toxic drugs announced |
Events
Dr. Michele Basso: Cognition and Movement in Parkinson’s disease
September 13
2215 Wesbrook MallVancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 In this talk Dr. Basso will review studies in her laboratory exploring the role of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease and the role of the basal ganglia and midbrain circuits in the control of perceptual and memory-based decision-making in health and disease.
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Neuroscience Research Colloquium
September 20 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Peri Kurshan: Protein-lipid interactions drive presynaptic assembly prior to cell-adhesion molecule recruitment
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
September 27 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Katharine Smith
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
October 18 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Carrie Esopenko
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3