DMCBH members awarded Fall 2022 CIHR project grants to support health research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall…
Recent News
Keep up to date with the latest news and announcements from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health.
Trainees
DMCBH Trainee Spotlight: Judy Cheng
The human brain has fascinated Judy Cheng for as long as she can remember. “There is so much that we don’t know about it, and every new discovery about the brain is so exciting to me that entering the neuroscience field was a no-brainer!” During Cheng’s undergraduate degree at UBC majoring in Behavioural Neuroscience, she completed a directed studies project…
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Research
January 31, 2023
Papers of the month: January 2023
Check out some of the papers that were published by DMCBH members in the…
Research
January 25, 2023
Traffic pollution impairs brain function
First-in-the-world study suggests that even brief exposure to air pollution has rapid impacts on…
Upcoming Events
Find out about upcoming events hosted by the Centre, its research partners and affiliated organizations.
Dr. Rosemary Bagot: At the intersection of threat and reward in nucleus accumbens glutamatergic afferents
February 17
2215 Wesbrook MallVancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 The nucleus accumbens integrates diverse inputs, balancing threat and reward to orchestrate motivated behaviour. Glutamatergic projections from the ventral hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex converge in the accumbens medial shell and are implicated in reward processing as well as adaptation…
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Neuroscience Research Colloquium
February 24 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Joni Wallis: Neuronal mechanisms of value-based decision-making: a brain-machine interface approach
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
March 3 @ 11:00 am
UBC Kickstart Updates: Drs. Annie Ciernia and Paul Van Donkelaar
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
March 10 @ 11:00 am
UBC Kickstart Updates: Drs. Lynn Raymond/Neha Suvindran and Rebecca Todd
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Our Research
The Centre is home to five Integrated Research Programs, with over 100 investigators involved in clinical and foundational research.
