Month: August 2026
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Brain Star Award feature: Weihua Cai, McGill University
The gut microbiota contributes to pain in fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is a prevalent syndrome characterized by widespread pain in the absence of evident tissue injury or pathology, making it one of the most mysterious chronic pain conditions. It is thought to result from an overall increased sensitivity to pain. The composition of the gut microbiota in
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Brain Star Award feature: Sung Mo Park, SickKids Hospital
Failed memory recall does not necessarily reflect information loss A publication by SungMo Park, working in the Josselyn/Franklin lab at the Hospital for Sick Children, fundamentally reframes how memory impairment is understood by demonstrating that failed recall does not necessarily reflect irreversible information loss. Instead, they show that memories can persist as “silent engrams”—physically encoded
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Hippocampal Circuit Mechanisms of Memory
Canada Research Chair in Cellular Mechanisms of MemoryTopolnik Laboratory, Université Laval, Québec, Canada The Topolnik Laboratory is recruiting an outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to lead an ambitious project examining how prefrontal–hippocampal circuits regulate memory encoding and retrieval through specialized VIP interneuron populations. This position is intended for a scientist who wants to develop
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Brain Star Award feature: Adrienne Kinman, University of British Columbia
Identification of a new brain cell important for object memory Adrienne Kinman, working in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Cembrowski at the University of British Columbia, has identified a new type of brain cells, called ovoid neurons, and showed it responds specifically to novel, but not familiar objects. Named for the egg-like shape of their
