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SUMMARY:Dr. Guillaume Dumas: Multi-Brain Neuroscience: from Generative Neurophenomenology to Inter-Personalized Psychiatry
DESCRIPTION:Human cognition and mental health do not arise from the brain alone\, but from continuous interactions among people\, bodies\, and social environments. This talk introduces a multi-brain perspective on neuroscience that connects research on consciousness with new directions in psychiatry. Using recent advances that enable multiple brains to be recorded simultaneously\, we explore how everyday social interactions\, such as conversation\, cooperation\, and shared attention\, give rise to coordinated patterns of brain activity across individuals. These patterns reflect how people align emotionally\, cognitively\, and behaviorally during real-world interactions. \nBuilding on these insights\, the talk argues for a shift in how we think about mental health. Rather than focusing solely on what happens inside an individual’s brain\, we propose an embodied and relational view in which well-being and vulnerability depend on the quality of interactions with others. Changes in how brains coordinate during social exchanges have been linked to a range of psychiatric conditions\, suggesting that mental health is shaped by relationships as much as by biology. Inter-personalized psychiatry extends this idea by considering diagnosis and intervention at the level of pairs\, families\, and groups\, integrating brain mechanisms with lived social experience. \nOverall\, this work highlights how studying brains in interaction can deepen our understanding of consciousness\, inform more socially grounded approaches to mental health\, and open new paths for clinical research and practice.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-guillaume-dumas/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Dr. Kelsie Eichel: Building a polarized neuron: from C. elegans to humans
DESCRIPTION:Neurons are defined by their remarkable polarity\, a feature that is highly conserved across most nervous systems. A key neuronal structure\, the axon initial segment (AIS)\, is essential for establishing and maintaining a functional\, polarized neuronal architecture. As such\, defects in the AIS and a loss of polarity are associated with neurological dysfunction and numerous disease states. Though critical for fundamental aspects of neuronal polarity and synaptic transmission\, we have lacked the tools to define the molecular choreography that endows the AIS with such important functions until recently. My work has spearheaded approaches to visualize and uncover the dynamic cell biology at the AIS in both cultured mammalian neurons and living C. elegans animals. I will present our findings on how active cellular mechanisms at the AIS maintain neuronal polarity and drive nervous system function\, bridging cellular and developmental neurobiology with the behavior of living animals.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-kelsie-eichel/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Dr. Christian Ruff
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URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-christian-ruff/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jennifer Gommerman: Targeting B cells in MS - understanding mechanisms of action.
DESCRIPTION:I will be presenting data on an animal model of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) progression\, how we have used this model to better understand disease progression and to understand how MS treatments impact this process. By going back and forth between the animal model and MS tissues\, we have learned about what can trigger so-called “compartmentalized inflammation” in MS\, and have unveiled a potential fluid biomarker that reflects this inflammation.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-jennifer-gommerman/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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