Pictured: Jasmine Gill (left) and Dr. Cheryl Wellington (right) pictured in Dr. Wellington's lab. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
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Pictured: Dr. Brian Christie. Image source: University of Victoria.
As attitudes and regulations around cannabis use change around North America, a growing number of adults aged 19 to 30 years report using cannabis; a not-insignificant proportion of these report simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana (SAM). For young women, this can present an increased risk of unplanned pregnancy, but can also mean engaging in potentially risky behaviours in the early stages of gestation before an individual knows they are pregnant.
Pictured: The Movement Disorders Clinic and Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre team at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health on World Parkinson's Day in 2018. Image source: Vancouver Coastal Health.
A new study from Dr. Elaine Kingwell and Dr. Helen Tremlett reveals that a widely prescribed drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with longer survival for patients.
Pictured: Dr. Christian Naus in his lab at the Life Sciences Centre. Image credit: Faculty of Medicine/UBC.
A new treatment for a common type of stroke may soon be possible, thanks to a discovery by an international team of researchers led by Dr. Christian Naus at the University of British Columbia.
Pictured: Ama Kyeremeh, Women's Health Research Cluster Coordinator, pictured at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
The Research Excellence Clusters program at the University of British Columbia continues to support research across disciplines, linking the neuroscience community with experts across campus to ask big questions and solve big problems.
By 2015, more than half of all smartphone users had downloaded at least one-health related app. But how many of those users had read the apps’ privacy policy? How many apps had privacy policies?
Pictured: an MRI scan of a human brain after concussion. Image source: iStock.
Pictured: Rand Eid (facing forward, left) at work in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology (Galea Lab) at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Pictured: Dr. Adele Diamond (left) with Bill Gates (right). In February, Dr. Diamond was invited by Bill Gates to attend a private meeting of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with the Global Good Fund at Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, where she provided a researcher’s perspective on executive function and how to improve executive function in kids.
