Do No Harm is a novel by Dr. Henry Marsh, a world-renowned neurosurgeon. Each chapter recounts one of his surgical cases in detail, but this book isn’t full of your typical life-saving, miracle work, Hail Mary intervention stories. Dr. Henry Marsh describes the hard...

This year, NSERC hosted their second annual edition of the Science, Action! video contest. This sensational competition places a novel twist on research presentation. Instead of turning in a proposal to a committee or presenting a poster at a conference, contestan...

Not too long ago we had Brain Awareness week here at McMaster University. We were lucky enough to have several presentations that week from a wide range of speakers. One in particular came from a new addition to McMaster’s faculty, Dr. Michael Amlung. Dr. Amlung is ...

As proud students of McMaster’s Neuroscience Graduate program, it seems fitting that the current issue of Brainwaves should feature a brief account of this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. With just under 30,000 attendees, the meeting was held at Chica...

AUTHOR: Justin Balsor

As proud students of McMaster’s Neuroscience Graduate program, it seems fitting that the current issue of Brainwaves should feature a brief account of this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. With just under 30,000 attendees, the meeting was held at Chicago’s...

AUTHOR: Jasmine Turna

A day of sports and a get together afterwards, that was what the Students of MiNDS Association (SOMA) had planned for MiNDS students and faculty on July 17. But as luck would have it, the day of the event brought along rain with a risk of thunderstorms. Obviously SOMA would nev...

AUTHOR: Justin Balsor

I have spent the past month consuming an inordinate amount of caffeine. On any given morning, you can count on me to arrive at work sporting a large regular from Tim Horton’s, or to brew the next batch of coffee in the lab French press. However, this latest coffee bender has bee...

"Why is one neuron, rather than its neighbour, allocated to fear memory?" Questions like this drive Dr. Sheena Josselyn's research in an attempt to understand the neural substrates of memory and related disorders.