Canadian Neuroscience News

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  Brain Star Award feature: Lizheng Wang, University of Calgary2025/06/20
  Uncovering the role of cilia in astrocyte development and function Astrocytes are a type of cells that act as crucial regulators of nearly all aspects of the brain. Different types of astrocytes exist; however, little is known about how different subtypes of astrocytes are created during development to differentially support their local neural circuits. Lizheng… Read more: Brain Star Award feature: Lizheng Wang, University of Calgary
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  Brain Star Award feature: Hayley Renee Christine Shanks, Western University2025/06/10
  Phase 2a clinical trial reveals a small molecule called LM11A-31 is safe and slows progression of many features of Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. Therapeutics available to the approximately 734,000 Canadians living with AD provide symptom management without slowing disease progression. Hayley Renee Christine… Read more: Brain Star Award feature: Hayley Renee Christine Shanks, Western University
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  Brain Star Award feature: Andrea Luppi, McGill University2025/06/03
  Understanding how the brain’s network architecture shapes its capacity to transition between different states To support the diversity of human cognitive functions, such as learning, thinking, reasoning, remembering, problem solving, decision making, and attention, brain regions flexibly form and dissolve connections on the fly. How is the brain’s capacity to transition between different functional configurations… Read more: Brain Star Award feature: Andrea Luppi, McGill University
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  Research from University of Ottawa: deciphering what serotonin is saying inside our brains2025/05/05
  The international research team’s ambitious work has implications across multiple fields and sheds compelling new light on the extraordinarily complex serotonin system. In our day-to-day lives, we’re constantly making a slew of decisions from immediate matters to prospects on the far horizon. But the evolutionary nuts-and-bolts of how our brains weigh these numerous daily decisions… Read more: Research from University of Ottawa: deciphering what serotonin is saying inside our brains
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  University of Ottawa-led research team forges compelling new insights into dynamics of the brain’s serotonin system2025/05/02
  Source of text: David McFadden, Communications Advisor & Research Writer, University of Ottawa The study’s findings could potentially help develop targeted therapeutics for mood disorders like major depressive disorder. Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what’s really happening inside our brains when we engage in this… Read more: University of Ottawa-led research team forges compelling new insights into dynamics of the brain’s serotonin system

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