Two Simon Fraser University psychologists have made a brain-related discovery that could revolutionize doctors’ perception and treatment of attention-deficit disorders. The Journal of Neuroscience has just published a paper about the discovery by John McDonald, … Continue reading
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) are co-investing $400,000 to turn Ontario-based neuroscience researchers into ‘neuro-entrepreneurs’ and their work into viable companies. Jointly funded through the OCE-OBI Entrepreneurship Fellowship program, … Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have built the world’s largest simulation of a functioning brain. The model is named Spaun, which stands for Semantic … Continue reading
A team of Canadian scientists and clinicians, led by Dr. Michael Hill of the Calgary Stroke Program at Foothills Medical Centre and University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), have demonstrated that a neuroprotectant drug, developed by Dr. Michael Tymianski at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, located at the Toronto Western Hospital, protects the human brain against the damaging effects of stroke. Continue reading
Saskatoon brain surgeon and medical researcher Dr. Michael Kelly has been awarded the Saskatchewan Research Chair in Clinical Stroke Research to pursue his work in the operating room and at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron … Continue reading
