Until now, there was no clear reason why sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) occurs. In a paper published today in the journal Brain, researchers have identified key aspects of fatal and non-fatal seizures.
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Pictured: Dr. Catharine Winstanley (centre), surrounded by lab members including research technician Dr. Sukhbir Kaur (top left) and former graduate student Dr. Jacqueline-Marie Ferland (top right). Image source: UBC Department of Psychology.
Allen Yang is in the thick of it, the busiest time of year for the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, and he just started. Yang, who will occupy the role of Graduate Program Coordinator for the next 18 months, has been busy processing applications and preparing admissions information for the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and looks forward to putting faces to all the names he’s learned since taking on the Coordinator role for Jennifer Campbell this month.
Image: neurons in the infant brain. Image source: snyderlab.com.
Does neurogenesis occur in human adults? In mature animals? Is it a yes or no question, or should it be? A new editorial published today in the journal Trends in Neurosciences today contextualizes fifty years of controversy and conflicting reports, and invites researchers to consider new perspectives in how the brain changes across the lifespan.
As smart watches and fitness trackers explode in popularity, so is a new type of health and wellness tech marketed as being able to monitor and manipulate brain functions. Direct-to-consumer “neurotechnology” is a rapidly growing industry, predicted to top $3 billion by 2020.
A neuroscientist, mathematician, and expert on the hippocampus, Dr. Mark Cembrowski has a rare combination of skills. Now, at the start of a new year, he begins his career at the University of British Columbia with a newly established lab located in the Life Sciences Centre.
Pictured: Dr. Jacqueline Quandt. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Pictured: Alireza Kamyabi (smiling, centre), graduate student in Dr. Brian MacVicar's lab, and colleagues present their research during a recent donor tour. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Dr. Jonathan Squires and Larry Gifford in the Movement Disorders Clinic at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image source: Global BC News/Larry Gifford.
Pictured: Elisa York at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and Elisa York, a PhD student in Dr. Brian MacVicar’s lab found that in addressing a need in her own research she could solve a larger problem for other researchers studying microglia (the brain’s immune cells).
