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Pictured: Dr. Christian Naus in his lab at the Life Sciences Centre. Image credit: Faculty of Medicine/UBC.
A new treatment for a common type of stroke may soon be possible, thanks to a discovery by an international team of researchers led by Dr. Christian Naus at the University of British Columbia.
Pictured: Ama Kyeremeh, Women's Health Research Cluster Coordinator, pictured at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
The Research Excellence Clusters program at the University of British Columbia continues to support research across disciplines, linking the neuroscience community with experts across campus to ask big questions and solve big problems.
By 2015, more than half of all smartphone users had downloaded at least one-health related app. But how many of those users had read the apps’ privacy policy? How many apps had privacy policies?
Pictured: an MRI scan of a human brain after concussion. Image source: iStock.
Pictured: Rand Eid (facing forward, left) at work in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology (Galea Lab) at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Pictured: Dr. Adele Diamond (left) with Bill Gates (right). In February, Dr. Diamond was invited by Bill Gates to attend a private meeting of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with the Global Good Fund at Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, where she provided a researcher’s perspective on executive function and how to improve executive function in kids.
Neighbourhood income and education level is associated with risk of disability progression in patients with multiple sclerosis, suggests new research from Dr. Helen Tremlett and colleagues at the University of British Columbia.
Researchers from two Research Excellence Clusters at the University of British Columbia have discovered how blood vessels protect the brain during inflammation—a finding that could lead to the development of new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.
More than 90,000 Canadians live with multiple sclerosis (MS) a chronic disease affecting the brain and central nervous system. It often affects young adults, with diagnosis generally occurring between 25 and 45 years of age. For those seeking to understand how MS affects individuals and populations, Canadian health data offers a wealth of information for researchers, with findings of relevance to all Canadians. Epidemiological data captured across Canada has, for many years, informed research and care across the country and, sometimes, in the United States (US).
“The world is mobilizing around a strategic approach to brain research,” says Dr. Judy Illes, “and neuroethics is an anchor point.”
While leaders in brain research around the world have been building toward an international brain research strategy, Canada has been working on a complementary approach that accelerates international efforts but leverages the unique advantages of Canadian researchers and Canada as a neuroscience-driven nation.
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