Month: January 2015
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Examining links between anxiety and chronic pain
Min Zhuo is a professor in the department of physiology at U of T and the Canada Research Chair in Pain and Cognition. Zhuo and his lab recently published a […]
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Blame it on your brain: salt and hypertension
Study sheds new light on link between salt intake and blood pressure An international research team led by scientists at McGill University has found that excessive salt intake “reprograms” the […]
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York U researchers discover how midbrain map continuously updates visuospatial memory
On the upcoming Super Bowl Sunday, a lot of us will be playing arm-chair quarterback. After the snap, we might use our eyes to track a wide receiver as he […]
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Spring 2015 CAN Connection
All new Spring edition of our newsletter, CAN Connection!
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Research published in Neuron shows activity in neuron complex can predict attention
Humans and other primates have an extraordinary ability to voluntarily and efficiently focus attention on important information while ignoring distraction. For decades it has been hypothesized that this ability relies […]