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Aging and memory

鈥淎s it stands now, we have to wait until people are showing symptoms like memory loss and clinical dementia. This means we are diagnosing Alzheimer鈥檚 when it鈥檚 been present in the brain for as long as 20 years.鈥�
- Prof. Howard Chertkow

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• Easing the burden of terminal illness
• KalGene听to manufacture and test promising Alzheimer鈥檚 treatment听
• Brain molecule puts brakes on memory recall
• Memory circuits are a two-way street

Mental illness and addiction

鈥淲hat we have in psychiatry is an unacceptable approach to diagnosis and to understanding how to direct patients to particular treatments 鈥� it鈥檚 nothing more than a symptom list.鈥�
- Prof. Michael Meaney

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• Analyzing the psyche of risky drivers
• Cocaine withdrawal changes gene behaviour
• A tiny molecule may help battle depression

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Pain

鈥淧ain research is still in its infancy, because of its complexity鈥�I envisage that in five to ten years, basic discoveries and clinical trials will really start to benefit ordinary people.鈥�
- Prof. Luda Diatchenko

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• Using light to reduce chronic pain
• Men and women wired differently for pain
• New drug target for chronic nerve pain
• 15 minutes of Rock Band ups empathy

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Behaviour and movement

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• Don鈥檛 scan so close to me
• Artificial neurons
• Sleep and Alzheimer鈥檚
• Controlling appetite
• EEG and the placebo effect
• How baby talk in birds helps them learn
• 鈥婼cientists Are Building VR Worlds for Mice and Monkeys
• 鈥婤rain cells that aid appetite control identified
• Resetting your body clock
• How your brain tells you to vote
• The psychology of magic
• Parkinson鈥檚 patients try the tango
• Can video games hurt your brain?
• 海角社区 alum wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Mapping the brain

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• 海角社区 wins $84 million grant for neuroscience听
• Creation of neuroscience research hub
• Decoding connectivity
• Data sharing: Access all areas
• Brain tumor growth

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• Podcast: Pedro Valdes-Sosa

海角社区 neuroscience facts

• #1 among Canadian universities in neurosciences for publication impact and for citation index (size-adjusted) -- key measures of quality
• 270 neuroscientists work at 海角社区
• 768 graduate students and 255 postdoctoral fellows study at 海角社区
• 1527 peer-reviewed articles published by 海角社区鈥檚 20 top neuroscientists in just 5 years
• 38,000 citations of these articles
• 20% of 海角社区鈥檚 Canada Research Chairs are in neurosciences
• Nearly 1/3 of Vanier Graduate Scholarship holders at 海角社区 have studied in neurosciences
• 20,000+ downloads of Big Brain, a breakthrough 3D digital brain atlas

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