Watch the Amazing Brain Science Talks

A collaboration between McGill University’s Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives and the Brain Canada Foundation, the Amazing Brain Science Talks took place at McGill University on October 14, 2023. This event, designed to demystify brain science for a wide audience, featured enlightening talks by Canadian brain health experts and speakers with lived experiences on a variety […]

With autism, the brain adapts to blood vessel problems by changing how it uses energy

Dr. Baptiste Lacoste wants to find out what’s going wrong with the blood vessels in the autistic brain. His team was the first to discover that these blood vessels don’t work properly in mouse models of autism, and there’s some cellular evidence that this happens in humans as well. Now, in a new study published in Cell Reports, the team […]