Amazing Brain Science Talks

Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives

An event presented by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives in partnership with Brain Canada

Tanna Schulich Hall

<h3></h3><h3></h3><h3>Event registration full — join the waitlist!</h3><h3>---</h3><h3>Discover the incredible potential of the brain</h3>Join us to learn about dreams, the imagination, the aging brain, neurodiversity and more through short talks by Canadian brain health experts and speakers with lived experience. Find out simple ways to keep your brain healthy, see how exercise can help heal brain function and discover how personalized therapy can ease anxiety in children with autism.The afternoon will feature talks centered around two themes: <ul><li>The Most for the Least: learn useful recommendations about how to engage your brain strategically to improve health and wellness. </li><li>The Amazing Brain: discover the brain&#x27;s incredible capacity for top performance in a range of activities.</li></ul>---<h3>Agenda </h3>1:00 – 1:15Vladimir Hachinski, Western University - Introduction to the Amazing Brain and the Most for the LeastThe Most for the Least1:15 – 1:30Tina Montreuil, McGill University - Managing Stress: Baby Steps with Lifecourse Benefits 1:30 – 1:45Cindy Barha, University of Calgary - Personalizing Exercise for Improving Brain Health1:45 – 2:00Emma Duerden, Western University - Anxiety in Children Unraveled2:00 – 2:15Matthew Galati, Brain Changes Initiative - From Severe Brain Injury to Medical Doctor: How Neuroplasticity Saved My Life 2:15 – 2:30Q+A , moderated by Vladimir Hachinski2:30 – 2:45IntermissionThe Amazing Brain2:45 – 3:00Adrien Peyrache, McGill University - Sleep&#x27;s Hidden Superpower3:00 – 3:15Blake Richards, McGill University - Imagination, AI and the Brain3:15 – 3:30Kate Zarbatany, Macdonald High School - Autism Un-masked 3:30 – 3:45Q+A, moderated by Alan Evans, McGill University3:45Vivian Poupon, President and CEO of Brain Canada - Closing Remarks3:45 – 4:30 Reception

-﻿--An event presented by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives in partnership with Brain Canada.<a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/hbhl/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) </a>is an interdisciplinary program, funded by the Government of Canada and Quebec, built on McGill University&#x27;s global leadership in interdisciplinary neuroscience that uses big data analysis to reveal the fundamental mechanisms underlying normal brain function and brain disorders. HBHL aims to accelerate translational discoveries and create a global centre of excellence in neuroinformatics at McGill to improve brain health in Canada and around the world.<a href="https://braincanada.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brain Canada </a>is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing brain research in Canada and fostering collaboration among researchers, funding agencies, and other stakeholders to accelerate scientific discoveries.

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