Funded Grants

The Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness brings together 22 researchers to examine what consciousness is and how it comes about.

Dr. De Koninck studies the persistent changes in spinal cord function that occur after nervous system injury that lead to chronic pain.

The key neuropathology underlying ASDs is abnormal neuronal communication as a result of altered synapse formation, function and plasticity.

The proposed research in this application will significantly broaden our understanding of the molecular basis for how stress leads to anxiety and depression.

Ms. Voronova is a postdoctoral student in the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Department of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.

Although the spinal cord contains all the circuitry necessary for locomotion, due to the absence of commands from the brain, people with spinal cord injuries are unable to walk.

The main goal of my project is to further characterize the role of Wnt signalling in glioma progression.

We propose a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of Goal Management Training (GMT) for improving these patients’ cognitive functioning as well as patient and caregiver QoL.

This study will provide more in-depth information on all individuals with malignant and benign brain tumours in Ontario and their utilization of health care services at the provincial and local level.

Developmental signaling pathways are known to play important roles in normal neural stem cell (NSC) dynamics and can significantly alter the development of gliomas, highly aggressive brain tumours that arise from NSC-like tumour-initiating cells (TIC).