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Hughlings Jackson Lecture 2025: The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act

yulia.dulkina@mail.mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:40:52 +0000

Established in 1935, the Hughlings Jackson Lecture is The Neuro’s premier scientific lecture. It honours the legacy of British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty.

Neuro Staff Appreciation Day 2025

justin.martinez-rosler@mcgill.ca — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:17:28 +0000

Staff Appreciation Day is exclusively for Neuro staff, faculty, nurses, students, and trainees. ID required to enter.

HBHL Scientific Director Alan Evans receives Order of Canada

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:07:55 +0000

Original article by The Neuro.

Career of breakthroughs in neuroimaging recognized with one of the nation’s highest honours

A career that took an uncharted trajectory has been recognized with the Order of Canada, one of the country’s top honours.

Amazing Brain Science Talks 2025

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:23:33 +0000

Alan Evans receives Order of Canada

shawn.hayward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:55:26 +0000

Career of breakthroughs in neuroimaging recognized with one of the nation’s highest honours

A career that took an uncharted trajectory has been recognized with the Order of Canada, one of the country’s top honours.

8th National Neuromuscular Review Course

deborah.rashcovsky@mcgill.ca — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:08:29 +0000

Dr. Nicolas Dupré of Laval University, Dr. Karine Garneau of Université de Montréal, and the members of the organizing committee are pleased to announce the 8th National Neuromuscular Review Course.

HBHL gets solid representation at 2025 Bravo Gala

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:55:42 +0000

The 2025 Bravo Gala was a celebration of 91��Ƶ's research community, and HBHL is proud to have been so well represented.

Congratulations to the following HBHL-supported researchers for these outstanding awards:

SEX CELLS! On the importance of sex and gender in brain health

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:26:42 +0000

Last week, we welcomed neuroscientists Liisa Galea (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) and Robert-Paul Juster (Université de Montréal) for SEX CELLS!, a vital conversation on implementing Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) in health research.

HBHL-funded researchers clinch CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant

admin — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:50:12 +0000

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Project Grant: Fall 2024 competition has approved 453 research grants for a total investment of approximately $411M, with 131 projects funded in Quebec.

HBHL is proud to announce that 16 HBHL-funded researchers will receive support for eight projects, out of 23 grants awarded at 91��Ƶ.

HBHL-funded PIs are bolded in the following table:

March Neurogenesis talks explore brain mechanisms in food choice and computational modelling

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:43:01 +0000

Last week, HBHL hosted the third talk of the 2024-2025 Neurogenesis Speaker Series at the Neuro, featuring Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami.

Dana Small’s presentation, "The Interoceptive Origins of Reward," explored how biological signals are integrated to determine food choice, while Yashar Zeighami’s talk, "Fine-Tuning Neuroimaging Analysis to Reveal Hidden Insights," highlighted his research into the development of multi-scale computational models of brain anatomy.

HBHL Symposium 2025: a week later, the energy still shines!

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:53:31 +0000

Over 300 attendees gathered at 91��Ƶ on May 6 and 7 for the HBHL Symposium 2025, a vibrant two-day celebration of cutting-edge neuroscience and brain health research.

This year’s event featured inspiring keynote talks by Damien Fair (University of Minnesota), Lucina Q. Uddin (UCLA) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (91��Ƶ), who explored topics from neuropsychiatry and brain network dynamics to social determinants of brain health.

First Neurogenesis talk of 2025 highlights learning and spatial coding

admin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:43:34 +0000

Yesterday, HBHL hosted the first Neurogenesis Speaker Series talk of 2025 at The Neuro, featuring Paul Masset and Pouya Bashivan.

Mentorship Lunch: Exploring the next steps

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:56:55 +0000

What if career steering and planning did not have to wait until graduation?

Neuro Retreat 2025

justin.martinez-rosler@mcgill.ca — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:34:14 +0000

By invitation

Neuro Epilepsy Day and Pierre Gloor Lecture 2025

yulia.dulkina@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:37:04 +0000

The Neuro Epilepsy Day is a half-day event. The day will focus on neurodegeration and tauopathy in epilepsy, and its implications for cognition and disease progression.