The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is proud to announce Dr. Shayna Rosenbaum, from York University, will receive the CAN 2013 Young Investigator Award at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Annual meeting in Toronto, on May 21.
Read Dr. Shayna Rosenbaum's profile and find representative publications on the 2013 Award page.
Brain Canada is pleased to launch a consultation with the research community, research institutions and potential funding partners, about its planned Platform Support Grants (PSGs), intended to contribute to the operating costs of national or regional research platforms that serve large numbers of researchers in the neurosciences. Brain Canada intends that the PSGs will make possible the coordination and linking of existing local, provincial, or regional infrastructure into a national platform
Read more on the Brain Canada website
Visit our new Funding Opportunities webpage.
The page currently features new funding opportunities from :
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, and
Brain Canada.
“What we’re best at in Canada is coming up with new ideas.” -David Kaplan
The Globe and Mail recently featured a story about current innovations in Neuroscience Research. Read "A Big Brainstorm is underway in Neuroscience", by Ivan Semeniuk, in the Globe and Mail (includes interviews with CAN members David Kaplan, Tim Murphy and Yves De Koninck).
On the CBC, Henry Friensen Prize winner Marc Tessier Lavigne
was interviewed by host Paul Kennedy of Ideas.
Listen to Building Brains.
Sam David, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, has given a feature interview for the magazine International Innovation.
"International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found here"
CAN has contributed an editorial for a Neuroscience supplement that was published with the National Post on August 28th.
This article highlights the importance of neuroscience research in Canada, and the necessity to ensure its proper funding. Follow this link to view a pdf version of the document.
Dr. Nathalie Bérubé
Research from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute sheds new light on a gene called ATRX and its function in the brain and pituitary. Children born with ATRX syndrome have cognitive defects and developmental abnormalities. +++ »
Dr Daniel Levitin
In the first large-scale review of 400 research papers in the neurochemistry of music, a team led by Prof. Daniel J. Levitin of McGill University’s Psychology Dept. has been able to show that playing and listening to music has clear benefits for both mental and physical health. +++ »
Dr. Jaideep Bains
Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and colleagues have shown stress circuits are capable of self-tuning following a single stress. +++ »
Dr. Pierre Rainville
For chronic pain sufferers, such as people who develop back pain after a car accident, avoiding the harmful effects of stress may be key to managing their condition. This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress. +++ »
Dr. Amit Bar-Or
Powerful treatment improves patients’ lives and provides new insight into mechanisms of the disease. A new study by Multiple Sclerosis researchers at three leading Canadian centres addresses why bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has positive results in patients with particularly aggressive forms of MS. +++ »
Dr. Nathalie Arbour
A team of basic and clinical scientists led by the University of Montreal Hospital* Research Centre’s (CRCHUM) Dr. Nathalie Arbour has opened the door to significantly improved treatments for the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). +++ »
