Join us for the fifth annual UBC Giving Day on Thursday, April 3. This year, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health has been selected as 1 of 4 focus areas for the Faculty of Medicine. Brain health is at a critical crossroads—conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and depression are on the rise, yet cutting-edge […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Brains are evolved to learn, enabling animals to respond flexibly to an unpredictable world and to draw on experience to guide future behaviors. To learn efficiently, brains need to balance a high degree of flexibility […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Ethologists describing animals in the wild have long appreciated that naturalistic, self-motivated behavior is built from modules that are linked together over time into predictable sequences. Many such sequences are built to extract information from […]
In this trainee mentorship session organized by UBC’s MATRIX-N cluster, a multidisciplinary panel of preclinical, clinical, and industry researchers/experts, including Dr. Catharine Winstanley (UBC Psychology), Dr. Brittany Dennis (UBC Psychiatry) and Mr. Karim Lalji (Pharmaceutical Exec), will discuss different career paths in translational research and answer your questions. All students, trainees, and early-career researchers welcome! […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Noradrenaline (NA) is a strong modulator of neuronal activity, and many symptoms in patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be attributed to the maladaptive activity of locus coeruleus (LC), the main source of forebrain […]
Join us for the UBC Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars (BNS), a lecture series featuring DMCBH trainees and professors in a casual setting. Talks take place from 3-4 pm every Friday in DMCBH 3402A-C and on Zoom. RSVP is not required. This week's speaker is Nikolas Kokan from the Behavioural Neurogenetics Lab. Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62773707502?pwd=SW9DrCTkXaS2LbDf9TEdVXgOHqTGAq.1 Meeting ID: […]
This month, Sahithi Thotakura and Dr. Anil Maharaj from UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences will present "Informing treatment strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic using pharmacometrics." Zoom link if unable to attend in person: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/5936706150?pwd=bWFoeDNGMkk2ZVNOQk9FTFZIT0lZdz09&omn=62102214283
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 The objectives of this talk are to: Understand the importance of identifying cognitive complaints and cognitive impairment in persons with MS; Understand the impact cognition can have on persons with MS; Consider how cognition symptoms […]
The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.
