Welcome to the Centre for Neuroscience!

The Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta incorporates researchers and students across the entire span of neuroscientific research. While our members have diverse research interests, they are all united by a common goal: To drive forward our understanding of how the nervous system works. The nervous system remains one of the great scientific mysteries, and an understanding of its function has implications beyond biology and health and into the very foundations of human society.

Announcements

Campus Alberta Neuroscience - Team Formation Support Program

Campus Alberta Neuroscience Academic Exchange Program (CANAE): funding now available

Neurodevelopmental Grant Opportunity

Resident Research Opportunities

Recruitment Notice - Endowed Chair in Spinal Cord Research

 

Centre for Neuroscience in the News

  1. Two Centre for Neuroscience PhD students, Tara Whitten and Anastasia Greenberg, have each been awarded the 2013 Killam Memorial Scholarship

    May 14 2013

    The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship is the most prestigious graduate award offered by the University of Alberta. Both students are members of Dr. Clayton Dickson's lab.

  2. Centre for Neuroscience members help young stroke patients develop motor skills

    May 09 2013

    Dr. Jaynie Yang and Dr. Monica Gorassini are launching a provincial study to determine how intense physical therapy at a young age could help babies who suffered strokes. The study comes after positive results were found in a smaller pilot project involving five children.

  3. Anti-hypertension drug may improve schizophrenia symptoms

    May 08 2013

    Centre for Neuroscience member and co-principal investigator of the study Dr. Serdar Dursun: “This opens a new line of research for the treatment of schizophrenia. Such rapid improvement of symptoms of schizophrenia could be very important to help patients in acute care and emergency settings.”

  4. Centre for Neuroscience PhD student Camille Olechowski's work on MS pain moves from the lab to the clinic

    May 06 2013

    Study is one of the first of its kind to officially link pain and cognitive problems.

  5. Centre for Neuroscience members among 24 health researchers receiving $14.25 million over the next five years from CIHR

    February 15 2013

    “With this investment, our researchers can continue to help improve the health and lives of Canadians through vital multidisciplinary research in medical and rehabilitation sciences, health services and patient care,” said Lorne Babiuk, U of A Vice President of Research.

  6. Zebrafish eyed as answer to restoring vision

    February 01 2013

    Centre for Neuroscience member Dr. Ted Allison leads team who found that Zebrafish, a staple of genetic research, may hold the answer to repairing damaged retinas and returning eyesight to people.

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Upcoming Centre for Neuroscience Events

  1. BMO Financial Group Scholarship applications due to the Centre for Neuroscience office

    May 21

    Please email the Centre for further information.

  2. Seminar

    May 27

    10:00 - 11:00 AM

    3003 Katz Group Centre

    "Astrocyte roles in CNS disorders." Speaker: Dr. Michael Sofroniew, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA.

  3. Seminar

    May 27

    01:00 - 02:00 PM

    3003 Katz Group Centre

    "Promoting neuroplasticity to repair the injured spinal cord." Speaker: Nina Weishaupt, Final PhD Defense Seminar.

  4. Seminar

    May 30

    01:00 - 02:00 PM

    5003 Katz Group Centre *Special Location*

    "Neuronal Mechanisms of Hyperexcitability in Two Distinct Disorders: Spasticity and Bruxism." Speaker: Jessica D'Amico, Final PhD Defense Seminar.

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