CERVO is proud to launch the first video in a series produced by our trainees for the CERVOTube 2020 competition. We will be releasing one video every week until the end of the year.
This week’s video is by Theresa Wiesner and Andréanne Deschênes, who work with Paul De Koninck and Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal. It aims to answer the question: How does the brain learn?
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A team from Université Laval tested, on an animal model, the combined effects of an omega-3 rich diet and physical activity on the symptoms and degeneration associated with Parkinson’s disease. Unlike research focused on disease prevention, this study looks at what happens after diagnosis.
“Our work is encouraging for people who are already sick and for whom it is too late for prevention,” notes Frédéric Calon, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, who led the study.
The team tested whether there was a form of neurorestoration or functional recovery in the brain. “We did not see an increase in the number of neurons, as they cannot be resurrected, but we observed an improvement in the dopaminergic system, which is involved in both gross and fine motor skills,” explains the professor, affiliated with the CHU de Québec – Université Laval Research Center.
The 4 research centres of the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale were present yesterday October 3rd at the Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec as part of the event Ton Avenir at CIUSSS organized in collaboration with JeunesExplo – Stages d’un jour! (more…)
With a donation from the Azrieli Foundation and the generous backing of its visionary donors, the Brain Canada Foundation has announced the fifth cohort of Canada’s Future Leaders in Brain Research. This year, 21 promising early-career researchers have been awarded a total of $2.1 million in funding, with each receiving a $100,000 grant. (more…)
Les différentes manifestations de la dépression pourraient être causées par des altérations qui touchent de façon distincte trois circuits neuronaux du cerveau
Par : Jean Hamann (more…)
Caroline Menard is quoted in a Washington Post article entitled “How inflammation in the body may explain depression in the brain”. Professor Menard explains her research showing that inflammation affects the brain (more…)
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