Hailey Bieber, model, entrepreneur and wife of famous Canadian Justin Bieber, suffered a mini-stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) earlier this...
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Driving and dementia: How to know when it is time to stop driving
When a person has been diagnosed with dementia, making the decision to stop driving can be a difficult time for the individual, their families...
‘It’s a dream job for me’: Dr. Christine Hawkes on breaking barriers & finding her place at Sunnybrook
Dr. Christine Hawkes is one of a kind. A stroke neurologist and neuro-interventionalist at Sunnybrook, Dr. Hawkes is also the only female neurologist...
Behind the research: New study finds focused ultrasound enhances delivery of brain therapeutic and improves cognition in Alzheimer’s
Images by Vivian Young In a recently published preclinical study, Dr. Isabelle Aubert, senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and...
How Nikki Murphy is learning to live a ‘beautiful and gratifying’ life with OCD
Nikki Murphy didn’t ever plan on having children; she didn’t think it was a possibility for her because of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). By...
Why mental health is brain health
The brain is an incredibly powerful organ. It is in control of what we think, how we move, our behaviour, the sensations we experience, feelings...
‘I won the lottery that day’: How focused ultrasound changed Andy Hodgson’s life
When Andy Hodgson was first dating his now-wife, Kim, he would write her notes. “I loved writing her letters,” he says. “Just telling her how much I...
Behind the research: Studies provide more evidence that poor vascular health speeds up cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Two newly published studies led by Dr. Jennifer Rabin at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) add to the accumulating evidence that vascular disease...
Behind the Research: How the latest in stroke research at Sunnybrook could change emergency stroke treatment
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a promising new approach to treating stroke has been determined to be effective in in the largest clinical...
Advancing ALS research with speech acoustics: Meet Postdoctoral Fellow Liziane Bouvier
As a caregiver for her grandmother, Liziane Bouvier, PhD, witnessed first-hand how devastating the progressive loss of communication abilities in...