Please join us for a special screening of Seizing Hope: High Tech Journeys in Pediatric Epilepsy! Free admission - everyone is welcome! Can new technology bring hope to children who have drug-resistant epilepsy? More than 500,000 children in Canada and the USA have epilepsy. About a third of those children continue to have seizures despite […]
Research on Indigenous communities has historically been conducted using a one-sided approach, with researchers having little knowledge of Indigenous culture, minimal concerns surrounding community needs or desires, and without giving back to the community. In this lecture intended for people from all backgrounds and professions, Dr. Melissa L. Perreault will discuss how this is the […]
The placebo effect is powerful in many neurological and psychiatric disorders and clinical trials often use placebos when developing and testing new treatments. Some people question the ethics of including a placebo group in research, while others would argue that to not do so is ethically fraught. In some cases, estimating the placebo effect and […]
Join us for an interactive virtual event about research being conducted by the UBC-led “Mend the Gap” team for spinal cord injury (SCI). Drs. John Madden, director of the research program, Wolf Tetzlaff, associate director and lead of the biology and medicine team, and Tanya Barretto, from the ethics and translation team will discuss new […]
2025 BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK – ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED NEUROETHICS LECTURE 2025 Distinguished Neuroethics Speaker: Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics, Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Philosophy, and Bioethics, Pennsylvania State University Panelists: Benoit-Antoine Bacon, PhD, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia Christopher R. Honey, MD, […]
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PDT Via Zoom (Link will be shared upon registration.) RSVP here: bit.ly/ccpmri Join us for an interactive conversation with experts to discuss how highly portable neuroimaging technology can enable research and understandings of the human brain. The advent of highly portable MRI (pMRI) offers new […]