Month: July 2015
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CAN Social at SfN 2015 – View the pictures
Thanks to all for making the CAN Social a great success this year! Got to the CAN Flickr gallery to view all the pictures!
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CAN Election results
Our newly elected board members are: Lynn Raymond (President-elect), Ed Ruthazer (Secretary), Shernaz Bamji, Stephanie Borgland and Roger Thompson (Board members). Read more: http://can-acn.org/2015-elections-results
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His and hers pain circuitry in the spinal cord
New animal research reveals fundamental sex differences in how pain is processed. New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications…
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New Treatment Hope for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
A previously unknown link between the immune system and the death of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has been discovered by scientists at the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal. The finding paves the way to a whole new approach for finding a drug that…
