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A $9.6-million investment by the Government of Canada in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) will renew the infrastructure of the CLSA research platform, ensuring its progress in generating knowledge that promotes the health and well-being of older adults and informs the development of programs and policies for Canada’s aging population.
DMCBH member Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose (pictured) is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and the UBC lead of the CLSA.
Dr. Timothy O’Connor has returned as Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, a role he previously held from 2011-2017. He takes over in the interim from Dr. Liisa Galea, who is starting a new role at UBC as Health Research Advisor in the VP Research & Innovation Office.
Bed rest, secondary to surgery, illness, or chronic diseases, is a reality for many older adults and it is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes. Thus, it is important to identify strategies that can minimize the consequences of bed rest.
This story was written as part of the Djavid Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2019/2020 annual report. You can read the full report here.
Jeff LeDue wears many “hats” at UBC— he’s a research associate, coordinator of the UBC Dynamic Brain Circuits in Health and Disease Research Excellence Cluster and managing director of the NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation Centre (NINC), a shared research platform at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health.
This story was written as part of the Djavid Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2019/2020 annual report. You can read the full report here.
Pictured (clockwise from back): Dr. Anthony Phillips, Dr. Soyon Ahn, Maya Nesbit and Haiyan Zou.
When a person living with an opioid addiction begins the process of detoxifying, they are met with withdrawal symptoms which are often so painful the person relapses. Illicit drug use is a serious public health concern; in British Columbia alone, more than 1,500 people lost their lives to overdoses in 2020.
Dr. Janice Eng, a professor in the faculty of medicine’s department of physical therapy and DMCBH associate member, has been awarded with UBC’s highest honour conferred on a faculty member.
A new study led by DMCBH researcher Dr. Silke Cresswell in partnership with Dr. Brett Finlay's team at Michael Smith Laboratories suggests a strong correlation between following the MIND and Mediterranean diets and later onset of Parkinson's disease (PD).
Dr. Manu Madhav joined the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health this week, in a joint recruitment between the Centre and the School of Biomedical Engineering! Dr. Madhav is originally from Kerala, India and moved to the United States in 2008 to do his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He went on to do his Ph.D. in this same field and most recently worked as an Assistant Research Scientist under the mentorship of Drs. James Knierim and Noah Cowan.
For the second year in a row, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Alzheimer’s Disease Research Competition was held. Below are a list of the successful applicants along with a brief description of their projects. Congratulations to all the winners!
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