Category: News
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Announcing the 2020 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Award Winners!
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) and the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA) are proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Brain Star Awards. View the full announcement here
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CAN Connection Spring 2021
Read our latest newsletter: https://can-acn.org/can-connection-spring-2021
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Shedding light on adult brain stem cells
A CERVO research centre team demonstrates the role of light and calcium ions in neural stem cell activation in adulthood It has long been believed that neurons in the human brain develop only during the period from embryogenesis to adolescence. It is now known that in some areas of the brain, neural stem cells remain
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Researchers close in on root of slow motor learning in autism
Social deficits attract so much attention in the study of autism spectrum disorder, it’s easy to forget there are motor learning deficits during early childhood as well. For autistic kids hoping to throw a ball around the schoolyard and connect with classmates, these physical skill differences can isolate a child further. In a new study
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CAN Trainee research feature: Ewen Lavoie – University of Alberta
Ewen Lavoie presents work he has done in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Chapman at the University of Alberta, and published here: Lavoie, E., & Chapman, C. S. (2021). What’s limbs got to do with it? Real-world movement correlates with feelings of ownership over virtual arms during object interactions in virtual reality. Neuroscience of Consciousness.
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Pioneers in migraine research that has led to the development of new treatments awarded world’s top Brain Prize
A group of four neuroscientists from Denmark, Sweden, UK, and USA who discovered a key mechanism that causes migraine that led to revolutionary new treatments receive The Brain Prize, the world’s most valuable prize in neuroscience. Four decades of research paved the way for the development of entirely new classes of migraine-specific drugs which are
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CAN Connection – Winter 2021 Newsletter
Click here to read our latest newsletter: https://can-acn.org/can-connection-winter-2021/
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Launch of the 2020 Brain Star Award Competition
We are happy to announce the launch of the 2020 Brain Star Award Competition! Application deadline is January 31, 2021. View all the details here: Brain Star Awards
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Read the latest edition of CAN Connection – November 2020
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CAN publishes an article in MacLean’s and Chatelaine magazine
The article was published in MacLean’s in October 2020, in a special section on “Understanding Neurological Conditions”, and re-published in the December 2020 edition of Chatelaine, in a special section on “Managing Chronic Conditions”. It was also published online on the healthinsight.ca website.