A new website has been launched to help teens and their healthy parent cope with unresolved tragedy after early-onset dementia strikes the other parent. Dr. Tiffany Chow is the driving force behind When Dementia is in the House. An expert in ...

Researchers at Montreal hospitals were in the forefront of an international team that recently announced a breakthrough discovery in understanding some forms of leukodystrophy, a debilitating and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that appears in childhood. Their research found that a ...

Two studies published in the September 21 online issue of Neuron report the identification of the long-sought genetic abnormality which authors say is the most common cause of two different but related forms of neurodegenerative disease: FTD and ALS. The first ...

Canadians researchers have made a significant discovery regarding ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, opening the door to novel approaches to the treatment of the disease. The discovery is significant because, to date, there is no cure ...

A one-week disruption of his Parkinson’s medication schedule resulted in nearly three months of distress for Lorne Collis after he returned home from a brief hospital stay for a kidney ailment in December 2009. “My tremors were uncontrollable,” says Collis. ...

Brain tumours are often very difficult for doctors to find. Current imaging techniques that find other types of cancer without difficulty still often can’t easily find brain tumours. That means many patients are diagnosed with brain cancer too late for ...

Parkwood Hospital, part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, has been selected as one of four initial Canadian centres to promote excellence in spinal cord injury (SCI) best practices. The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF), in collaboration with the Rick Hansen Institute ...

When Dr. Milos R. Popovic dreams of brilliant control systems, it’s not supercomputers or NASA mission control he’s thinking of, it’s the human brain. “The brain is the most sophisticated control system anywhere in existence,” says the biomedical engineer and Toronto ...