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��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge receives grant to train students in data science

caroline.zentner — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:12:44 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge will help meet the demand for well-trained professionals in data science thanks to a $1.65-million grant over six years from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.

The funding by NSERC is part of a $26 million investment to create 16 innovative training programs across the country that will facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce.

The purpose of the CREATE program is to improve the training and mentoring environment for upcoming Canadian researchers. At ULethbridge, Dr. Artur Luczak, a neuroscientist at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN), will lead the Training Biology Students for Jobs in Data Science (TrainBioData) program.

“We are very grateful to receive this grant,” says Luczak. “Data science is essential in many research domains and industries today and the demand for well-trained professionals is strong. Our TrainBioData program will establish a world-class training environment for graduate and post-doctoral trainees.”

Data scientists analyze large amounts of data using mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence and computer engineering. Data science has broad applications in many fields, including health care, finance, marketing and technology.

This program will provide trainees with broad learning opportunities that include computer programming, data science foundations and internships with academic and industry partners in Canada and internationally.

“Our trainees will have access to an outstanding group of leaders in data science in Alberta,” Luczak says. “TrainBioData will also provide new pathways to introduce undergraduate students in the life sciences to data science.”

The program will receive support from various ULethbridge departments, including the School of Graduate Studies and the Centre for Neuroengineering Solutions.

“The TrainBioData initiative builds on ULethbridge’s reputation as an internationally recognized leader in applying data science to training life science researchers,” says Dr. Dena McMartin, vice-president of research at ULethbridge. “We look forward to bolstering our strengths in this area through this grant.”

The TrainBioData team includes Drs. Luczak, Robert Sutherland, Bruce McNaughton, Gerlinde Metz, Cheryl Currie, Olga Kovalchuk, Claudia Gonzalez, Nehal Thakor, Chelsea Ekstrand and Majid Mohajerani.

The Research Support Fund supports a portion of the costs associated with managing the research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, such as salaries for staff who provide administration support, training costs for workplace health and safety, maintenance of libraries and laboratories, and administrative costs associated with obtaining patents for inventions.

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge to celebrate Brain Awareness Week

caroline.zentner — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:49:22 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge is inviting the public to learn more about the brain and the world-renowned research being done at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) in advance of Brain Awareness Week from March 13 to 19.

Dr. Artur Luczak will discuss the brain's ability to predict the future and how that may help explain consciousness.

“The CCBN is a world-class research facility and we encourage members of the public to visit us and learn about the incredible activities taking place right here in southern Alberta,” says Dr. Artur Luczak, a neuroscience professor, and a Brain Awareness Week speaker.

On Saturday, March 11, the CCBN is hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event which includes activities for children. Parking is free and the CCBN is located on Level 8 of Science Commons.

“We have an exciting lineup of activities for folks, including a guided tour of the dry labs, various fun activities in the kids’ room and an opportunity to see a real human brain,” says Jade Oldfield, a neuroscience student and co-organizer of Brain Awareness Week along with fellow student Cameron Beazer and professor Dr. Masami Tatsuno. “Brain Awareness Week happens only once a year and it gives us the perfect opportunity to welcome the community to the CCBN.”

From 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Luczak will give a free talk titled Predictive Neurons: Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence in the Science Commons Atrium on Level 7.

Talk summary — Correctly predicting the future can be very helpful for survival. In fact, the main reason why animals have brains could be to improve predictions of where the food is and how to best get it. Consciousness, the most mysterious feature of the brain, also seems to be related to predicting the future and detecting surprise. In this talk, Luczak will discuss how the ability of neurons to predict their future activity may be the key to understanding the brain, how it may help to explain consciousness and how it may allow us to build super-intelligent computers.

Artificial intelligence can help diagnose and monitor patients with neurological disorders

caroline.zentner — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:09:12 +0000

For someone with a neurological disorder that impairs their movement, such as stroke or Parkinson’s disease, getting to the doctor’s office for a checkup can be difficult. What if a patient could just take a video clip of their movements with a smartphone app that interprets the video and sends the results to their doctor?

Drs. Hardeep Ryait, Ian Whishaw and Artur Luczak, together with their colleagues from the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, propose just that in their paper, Data-driven analyses of motor impairments in animal models of neurological disorders, published today in the prestigious journal, PLOS Biology.

These researchers, from left to right, Drs. Artur Luczak, Hardeep Ryait and Ian Whishaw, have shown deep learning can analyse complex behaviour.

First, they asked people with special training to score the quality of reaches for food made by rats that had suffered a stroke that impaired their movements. They then provided this information to a state-of-the-art deep neural network, a type of machine learning that simulates the brain’s neural network, so that it could learn to score the rats’ reaching movements with human-expert accuracy.

“When the network was subsequently given video from a new group of rats reaching for food, it scored their impairments with human accuracy,” says Ryait, a post-doctoral fellow in Luczak’s lab at that time.

The same program proved able to score other tests given to rats and mice, including tests of their ability to walk across a narrow beam and pull a string to obtain a food reward.

“Intelligent neural networks are being implemented to drive cars, interpret video surveillance and monitor and regulate traffic,” says Luczak. “This revolution in the use of neural networks has encouraged behavioural neuroscientists to use networks to evaluate movement disorders.”

The study shows the potential for neurological disorders to also be assessed automatically and behaviour quantified as part of a checkup or to assess the effects of a drug treatment.

“The delay in the assessments of neurological diseases is often a major roadblock in patient treatment,” says Whishaw. “This research indicates the network can provide a reliable score for neurological assessment and this breakthrough can assist in designing behavioural indexes to diagnose and monitor neurological disorders.”

Interestingly, the results also revealed the network can use a wider range of information than that included by trained humans in a behavioural scoring system. The network was able to identify features of a behaviour that are the most indicative of motor impairments, which, in turn, can improve monitoring of rehabilitation. This method would help standardize diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disorders and could be used by patients at home to monitor daily symptoms.

The application could be used with any disorder that affects movement and would significantly reduce the costs of doing clinical trials for new drugs for disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Beyond the health field, the application could be used in sports to help players perfect their golf swing or score a basket.

“Now, we are looking for funding to create a smartphone app,” says Luczak. “Here we have showed that it works in principle in a big computer cluster. It requires more work to adapt it to a smartphone but it is completely doable and we are interested in pursuing it.”

U of L researcher to examine if memory can trigger seizures

caroline.zentner — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:48:33 +0000

Thanks to a grant of more than $530,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr. Artur Luczak, a neuroscientist with the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, will investigate whether seizures can be triggered by memory.

Epilepsy and seizures can develop at any age and seizures affect about one per cent of people. Worldwide, more than 65 million people are affected by epilepsy. For some people with epilepsy, certain stimuli, such as flickering lights, particular sounds, specific odors or activities, evoke seizures. However, for most people with epilepsy, seizures have no identifiable triggers.

“One of the problems with seizures is that they occur at unpredictable times,” says Luczak. “For example, a seizure can happen when you’re driving or doing some other important activity, so this unpredictability is one of the most difficult aspects of epilepsy.”

Two years ago, Luczak, in collaboration with the U of L’s Dr. Bruce McNaughton and researchers at Stanford ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ, published a study that found certain neuronal activity in the brains of rats with epilepsy was associated with seizures. This new research will follow up on those results.

“It gave us the idea that, maybe recalling a memory of a specific event may create a pattern of brain activity that can trigger a seizure,” says Luczak.

To test this hypothesis in rats, seizures will be induced through electrical stimulation in a very specific location in the environment, such as a particular cage. At the same time, the researchers will be recording the ongoing activity of many neurons in the brain. When the rat has a spontaneous seizure in another location, the researchers will be able to compare the brain activity pattern before the spontaneous seizure with the brain activity pattern that occurred when the seizure was induced.

“Our speculation is that those seizures that occurred spontaneously at a completely different location are triggered because the rat was ‘thinking’ about the particular location when the seizure was induced,” Luczak says. “If this theory that we are proposing is true, then it will give us a much better understanding of what triggers seizures. If we better understand that seizures can be triggered by some specific patterns, then later we can design some therapies to prevent this.”

More than 20 per cent of patients with epilepsy do not respond to any treatment and researchers don’t know why drugs help some patients and not others. Having a better idea of how patterns of brain activity can trigger a seizure could help pave the way to new possibilities for treatment, such as memory-erasing drugs used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

In addition to the funding for his epilepsy research, the CIHR gave Luczak $100,000 to accelerate development of new data analysis tools to better understand how millions of brain cells work together.

“I’m very grateful to the federal government for these funds,” says Luczak. “At the U of L, we have many bright neuroscientists and the collaborative atmosphere here was crucial for me to develop those ideas and do the research. Even though I was awarded this grant, I have to give a lot of credit to other professors in our department and our trainees who did a lot of the important work leading to the grant and who gave me a lot of important insights and ideas.”

Epileptic seizure event leads Luczak down new path of discovery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:37:41 +0000

The majority of people who are touched by an epileptic seizure event can only endure the terrifying moments and put their faith in doctors to help their loved one. The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge’s Dr. Artur Luczak, however, was in a position to do much more when his infant son suffered a seizure, and what he’s learned about seizures since has flipped the script on understanding how the brain functions during these traumatic events.

When Dr. Artur Luczak witnessed his infant son experience an epileptic seizure, it understandably made an indelible impression both personally and professionally.

When Luczak, a researcher in the U of L’s Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN), witnessed his infant son experience an epileptic seizure, it understandably made an indelible impression both personally and professionally. Already deep in research that examines the interaction between neurons in the brain, Luczak turned to look at ictal (seizure) events by applying data techniques to gain a better understanding of how seizures develop in the brain.

“Having my son in my hands when he lost consciousness was the worst experience in my life,” says Luczak of the seizure event. “It really put me on this path to not only do the basic research but also this transitional research, which means in the future we can have a better understanding of the brain and hopefully design some better help for people with epilepsy.”

The prognosis for his son is positive as he fell into that group of infants who sometimes experience febrile seizure events when they develop high fevers. For the many people who are diagnosed as epileptics however, understanding what is happening in their brains is extremely complicated.

Luczak explains the prevailing theory behind ictal events is that the balance between excitatory neurons and inhibitory neurons in the brain is out of line, favouring excitation and a massive excitatory event. Using a unique technique to look at up to 100 neurons simultaneously, including the ability to differentiate between excitatory and inhibitory neurons, Luczak and his research team found that the inhibitory neurons, rather than being dormant throughout an ictal event, were significantly contributing to the seizure.

“This means that it’s not just excitation without check of inhibition but rather there is some complex network problem in which also inhibitory neurons are playing an important role,” says Luczak, whose findings from a collaborative study with the U of L’s Dr. Bruce McNaughton and researchers from Stanford ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ and Ghent ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ (Belgium) were published recently in the top neurology journal Brain. “It means that the picture is unfortunately much more complex than we thought.”

Luczak says the brain’s circuitry is the most complex system known to man, with billions of neurons interacting with each other for even the most basic of functions. Knowing now that inhibitory neurons are not passive throughout an ictal event opens up a whole new avenue of research.

“The first obvious thing is trying to repress these inhibitory cells during an ictal event. What will happen if we switch off those neurons, will it make it worse or will it reduce the seizure?” he asks. “This is the next question we will be pursuing to somehow better understand what is happening.”

Luczak and his team are performing basic research, putting together the building blocks upon which others construct treatments. What his work will turn into down the road is not yet known, and it may not even lead to epileptic treatment but rather shed light on any of a number of other neurological problems.

“We don’t know yet how to help people with epilepsy based on this research but it will steer us to a better understanding of the brain and points out the understanding we had so far is too simplistic,” he says. “We are trying to understand how the basic circuitry of the brain works and hopefully it will eventually lead to designing some better treatments for people with neurological disorders.”

Renowned neuroscientist Dr. Adrian Owen headlines annual Brain Awareness Week activities

trevor.kenney — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:28:04 +0000

One of the world’s leading and most talked about neuroscientists is the featured speaker as the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge’s Department of Neuroscience celebrates Brain Awareness Week, March 14-18, 2017.

The annual week of activities, presented by researchers in the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) and the Lethbridge Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, is focused on showcasing the study of neuroscience to the community and giving people the opportunity to discuss brain-related activities with researchers at the forefront of their field.

The CCBN Open House and Brain Awareness Fair takes place Saturday, Mar. 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the CCBN.

Dr. Adrian Owen, the Western ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Imaging & Neuroscience, is the visiting guest lecturer. He’ll host a pair of talks, including a free public forum on Tuesday, March 14, 7 p.m. at the Yates Memorial Centre, where he will present The Search for Consciousness.

“Adrian Owen is one of the world’s leading researchers in the area of neuroimaging and in studying patients in a vegetative state,” says Dr. David Euston, a faculty member and researcher in the U of L’s CCBN. “His work is incredibly compelling and has garnered worldwide media attention. We’re thrilled to be able to host him as our featured lecturer for Brain Awareness Week.”

British born, Owen first came to Canada in 1992 to work in the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ. He returned to England and ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Cambridge in 1996 before earning his current Chair position at Western in 2010.

In 2006, he authored a groundbreaking paper in which he demonstrated that functional neuroimaging could be used to detect awareness in a patient declared to be in a vegetative state. Although these patients appear to be awake, they are completely non-responsive, failing to interact with those around them or their environment. What Owen and his team have been able to do through functional neuroimaging is show that these patients can actually communicate to those around them by simply modulating their thoughts.

The free public lecture is sponsored by the Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Fund, the Faculty Arts & Science Dean’s office and the Local Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. The goal is to share world-leading neuroscience research with a non-specialized audience.

“Adrian Owen’s research aims to answer deep questions about consciousness, but the practical applications of his research are immediately obvious. Even better, Dr. Owen is excellent at presenting very complex topics in a way that the general public can easily understand. It should be a great talk,” adds Euston.

Brain Awareness Week also allows researchers at the CCBN to open their doors to the community to shine a light on the cutting edge work they are performing every day through an annual open house.

“We’ve designed a number of brain-related activities for all ages to take part in,” says Dr. Artur Luczak, a professor and researcher in the CCBN. “Our researchers are among the world’s best in the study of neuroscience and the discoveries they are making, right here in Lethbridge, will benefit society for years to come. This is your chance to come and take a look at some of this work.”

The CCBN Open House and Brain Awareness Fair takes place Saturday, Mar. 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the CCBN (north end of campus). For more information, contact euston@uleth.ca or call 403-394-3915.

Summer students share their research and win prizes

caroline.zentner — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:53:06 +0000

The annual Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Summer Student Symposium had 19 students present their research, covering topics as varied as facial detection using artificial retinas and the effects of maternal inflammation and prenatal stress on offspring behaviour.

First place, and a U of L Bookstore gift card worth $100, went to Marko Ilievski for his presentation on the exploration of face detection with the use of artificial retinas.

Rachael Chan captured second place, and a bookstore gift card worth $50, with her presentation on the impact of shipping stress on behavioural testing in rodent models.

Third place, which also came with a bookstore gift card valued at $50, went to Zach Wanner for his presentation titled ‘Establishing a collection process for in vivo metabolomics.’ Metabolomics can be defined as the study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind.

Hannah Scott earned an honorable mention for her presentation on the mechanisms that promote stress resilience across generations.

“Congratulations to all participants of the Summer Student Symposium for giving great presentations and special congratulations to the winners,” says Dr. Artur Luczak, one of the symposium organizers.

Photos of the winners and a list of all the presentations can be found on the symposium webpage.

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge awarded record $3.9 million in NSERC funding

trevor.kenney — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:04:26 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge was awarded a record $3.9 million of funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) this year, with U of L researchers earning support for projects in neuroscience, biological sciences, psychology, chemistry & biochemistry, physics & astronomy, geography and mathematics & computer science.

This unprecedented level of support was announced earlier today by Canada’s Minister of State (Science and Technology), the Honourable Ed Holder, at a national funding announcement in Oshawa, Ont.

Dr. Robert McDonald’s base grant of $355,000 (over five years) is the largest NSERC grant awarded to the U of L this year.

“This latest round of NSERC funding clearly demonstrates the outstanding research our faculty and students are undertaking,” says Interim Vice-President (Research) Dr. Lesley Brown. “That our research portfolio continues to grow as it does is testament to the quality of the work being done and also speaks to the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ striking the right balance as a comprehensive teaching and research institution.”

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge researchers receiving NSERC Discovery Grant funding include: Dr. Gerlinde Metz (neuroscience); Dr. Aaron Gruber (neuroscience); Dr. Alice Hontela (biological sciences); Dr. Jean-Baptiste Leca (psychology); Dr. David Logue (psychology); Dr. Artur Luczak (neuroscience); Dr. Robert McDonald (neuroscience); Dr. Majid Mohajerani (neuroscience); Dr. Gregory Pyle (biological sciences); Dr. Masami Tatsuno (neuroscience); Dr. Paul Vasey (psychology); Dr. Robert Laird (biological sciences); Dr. René Boeré (chemistry & biochemistry); Dr. Paul Hayes (chemistry & biochemistry); Dr. Locke Spencer (physics & astronomy); Dr. Mark Walton (physics & astronomy); Dr. Christopher Hopkinson (geography); Dr. Robert Benkoczi (mathematics & computer science); Dr. Shahadat Hossain (mathematics & computer science); Dr. Habiba Kadiri (mathematics & computer science); Dr. Nathan Ng (mathematics & computer science).

In addition, Drs. John Zhang and Olga Kovalchuk were each awarded NSERC Discovery Development Grants.

Luczak and McDonald will also both receive an additional $120,000 in funds through the Discovery Accelerator Supplements program (over a three-year period), while McDonald’s base grant of $355,000 (over five years) is the largest NSERC grant awarded to the U of L this year. He is studying neural circuits and mechanisms of context-specific conditioned inhibition.

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ’s doctoral students were extremely successful in the NSERC Doctoral Scholarship competitions, led by Katie Wilson (chemistry & biochemistry), who was named a Canada Vanier Scholar, demonstrating leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies. Jason Flindall (neuroscience) was awarded a Canadian Doctoral Scholarship, while Kayla Stone (neuroscience), Allonna Harker (neuroscience) and Stefan Lenz (chemistry & biochemistry) were awarded NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarships. Additionally, five masters students were awarded the NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship, including: Justin Lee (neuroscience), Serena Shandik (neuroscience), Matthew Robbins (physics & astronomy), Rhys Hakstol (chemistry & biochemistry) and Douglas Turnbull (chemistry & biochemistry).

“We are pleased with the amount of money invested in our researchers and what this could yield in terms of the results they will achieve and the benefits their work will bring to society,” adds Brown. “Our continuing success with the federal research funding agencies is testament to our researchers’ ability to compete on the national stage.”

NSERC grants aim to develop, attract and retain the world’s most talented researchers at Canadian universities who are working in a multitude of scientific and engineering disciplines.

Annual Brain Awareness Week highlights U of L neuroscience research

caroline.zentner — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:44:43 +0000

Everyone is invited to learn more about the world-renowned brain research being done at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge’s Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) during Brain Awareness Week, March 9 to 14.

Dr. Robbin Gibb, a U of L professor of neuroscience, will present this year’s public talk, addressing the importance of brain development in the preschool years. Gibb will discuss research into training the preschool brain for success in school and beyond through simple play activities. This free lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Yates Memorial Centre.

Dr. Robbin Gibb will discuss brain development in the early years during her public talk.

On Saturday, March 14, the CCBN will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors are invited to step inside to find out more about the cutting edge research being done and the discoveries being made in southern Alberta. The open house includes tours of the labs, the chance to meet CCBN scientists and an activity room for children to engage in educational brain-related activities.

“We encourage people of all ages to participate in this year’s Brain Awareness Week,” says Dr. Artur Luczak, a professor and neuroscience researcher at the CCBN and one of the organizers of Brain Awareness Week. “Research being done here in Lethbridge covers a wide range of neuroscience topics, including memory, stroke, brain diseases, how the brain has evolved in different species, and brain development over the lifespan.”

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) activities are organized by the Lethbridge Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. BAW is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.

Coinciding with BAW is a public talk on the evening of Wednesday, March 11 by Jay Ingram, former host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks and Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily Planet, titled The Alzheimer’s Mystery. Beginning at 7 p.m. at The Galt Museum, Ingram will talk about the research being done in Alberta to understand Alzheimer’s disease. The CCBN’s Dr. Rob Sutherland is an invited guest and will be available for the public discussion.

Brain Awareness Week engages community

trevor.kenney — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:14:50 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge will showcase its world-renowned neuroscience research with a number of activities surrounding Brain Awareness Week, Mar. 10-14.

The CCBN will throw its doors open to the public on Saturday, Mar. 15.

From the CCBN Open House and Brain Awareness Fair to a series of visits to southern Alberta schools and Dr. Gerlinde Metz’s public presentation, the U of L is inviting the community to become engaged with the ground-breaking discoveries taking place right here in southern Alberta.

“The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience is the only research facility of its kind in Canada,” says Dr. Artur Luczak, a neuroscience researcher and professor in the CCBN. “We want the public to step inside and learn about the incredible activities that are taking place in their community. Everyone is welcome and all ages are encouraged to participate.”

The following events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Mar. 11

Dr. Gerlinde Metz is this year's featured researcher.

Public Presentation – The Brain on Stress: How Experience Affects Health and Disease, Dr. Gerlinde Metz

7 p.m., Yates Memorial Centre

Dr. Gerlinde Metz, U of L professor in neuroscience and a Senior Scholar of Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions (AIHS), discusses her cutting-edge research on brain health and stress.

Saturday, Mar. 15

CCBN Open House and Brain Awareness Fair

10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience

Step inside and learn about the world-renowned research and groundbreaking discoveries taking place right here in southern Alberta. In addition, local organizations will be on hand with brain-related materials and information. Everyone is welcome and there will be activities for children.

As well, researchers from the CCBN will be making presentations throughout the week at Lethbridge College, Chinook High School, Winston Churchill High School, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization and Magrath Elementary School.

For a look at some of the world-class research initiatives ongoing within the CCBN, check out this link.

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