Canadian Association for Neuroscience

09/01/2026

Dr. Sameera Zia has identified new therapeutic targets for Multiple Sclerosis by studying the role of microglia in myelin repair

Zia, S., Traetta, M.E., Baaklini, C.S., Hammond, B.P., John, R.K., Souter, K.M., Meijns, N.R.C., Afun, L.A., Panda, S., Ibanez, F.G., Burr, M.K., Dhupia, E., Rathod, A.M., Faria, A.O., Zaveri, D., Challa, S., Hahn, E., Manesh, S.B., Lee, K.V., Ho., M.F.S., Friedman, T.N., Maguire, A.D., Pang, A., Fa...

09/01/2026

Sameera Zia a identifié de nouvelles cibles thérapeutiques pour la sclérose en plaques en étudiant le rôle des microglies dans la réparation de la myéline

Zia, S., Traetta, M.E., Baaklini, C.S., Hammond, B.P., John, R.K., Souter, K.M., Meijns, N.R.C., Afun, L.A., Panda, S., Ibanez, F.G., Burr, M.K., Dhupia, E., Rathod, A.M., Faria, A.O., Zaveri, D., Challa, S., Hahn, E., Manesh, S.B., Lee, K.V., Ho., M.F.S., Friedman, T.N., Maguire, A.D., Pang, A., Fa...

08/31/2026

Read CAN's submission to the 2026 pre-budget consultations: https://can-acn.org/read-cans-submission-to-the-2026-pre-budget-consultations/ In this brief, CAN recommends that the Government of Canada implement a five-year plan to increase the base budgets of Canada's three federal granting councils, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), by a minimum of 10% annually.

08/25/2026

Les recherches de Dylan Terstege montrent qu’une diminution de l’activité dans une région du cerveau appelée « cortex rétrosplénial » est liée à une vulnérabilité à la maladie d’Alzheimer qui varie selon le sexe https://can-acn.org/fr/dylan-terstege-laureat-dun-prix-cerveau-en-tete/

08/25/2026

Dr. Dylan Terstege's research shows reduced activity in a brain region called the retrosplenial cortex is linked to sex-dependent vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease,

Terstege, D. J., Ren, Y., Ahn, B. Y., Seo, H., Adigun, K., Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Galea, L. A. M., Sargin, D., Epp, J. R. (2025). Impaired parvalbumin interneurons in the retrosplenial cortex as the cause of sex-dependent vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease. Science Advanc...

08/18/2026

Work done by Weihua Cai reveals the gut microbiota contributes to pain in fibromyalgia

Cai W, Haddad M, Haddad R, Kesten I, Hoffman T, Laan R, Westfall S, Defaye M, Abdullah NS, Wong C, Brown N, Tansley S, Lister KC, Hooshmandi M, Wang F, Lorenzo LE, Hovhannisyan V, Ho-Tieng D, Kumar V, Sharif B, Thurairajah B, Fan J, Sahar T, Clayton C, Wu N, Zhang J, Bar-Yoseph H, Pitashny M, Krock....

08/18/2026

Les travaux menés par Weihua Cai révèlent que le microbiote intestinal contribue à la douleur associée à la fibromyalgie

Cai W, Haddad M, Haddad R, Kesten I, Hoffman T, Laan R, Westfall S, Defaye M, Abdullah NS, Wong C, Brown N, Tansley S, Lister KC, Hooshmandi M, Wang F, Lorenzo LE, Hovhannisyan V, Ho-Tieng D, Kumar V, Sharif B, Thurairajah B, Fan J, Sahar T, Clayton C, Wu N, Zhang J, Bar-Yoseph H, Pitashny M, Krock....

08/11/2026

Une publication de SungMo Park redéfinit notre compréhension des troubles de la mémoire en démontrant que l’incapacité à se souvenir ne reflète pas nécessairement une perte irréversible d’information. https://can-acn.org/fr/sung-mo-park-laureat-dun-prix-cerveau-en-tete/

08/11/2026

A publication by SungMo Park fundamentally reframes how memory impairment is understood by demonstrating that failed recall does not necessarily reflect irreversible information loss. https://can-acn.org/brain-star-award-winner-sung-mo-park/

08/10/2026

New opportunity posted: Postdoctoral Fellow in Hippocampal Circuit Mechanisms of Memory - Topolnik Laboratory, Université Laval, https://can-acn.org/postdoctoral-fellow-in-hippocampal-circuit-mechanisms-of-memory/