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October 23, 2026

Four DMCBH members among new and renewed Canada Research Chairs

Four Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) members have been named new and renewed Canada Research Chairs by the Government of Canada, recognizing their global research excellence and contributions to advancing health and medicine. The Canada Research Chairs Program enables Canadian universities to attract and retain world-class researchers who advance new knowledge and discoveries, strengthen Canada’s international competitiveness and…

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Dr. Adrien Peyrache: Orienting memory during wake and sleep

October 30

2215 Wesbrook Mall
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The head-direction (HD) circuit, an upstream provider of orientation signals for navigation, maintains coherent internal orientation memory that stays stable within each environment for weeks. During non-REM sleep, when hippocampal trajectories are replayed for memory formation, HD cells remain coordinated and directly influence this hippocampal replay. This suggests the HD system conveys a “virtual” orientation signal to support memory replay,…

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