A University of British Columbia study identifies an important molecular change that occurs in the brain when we learn and remember, giving researchers a better understanding of the tools that brains use and providing insight into how the processes become disrupted in neurological diseases such as Alzheimer disease and Huntington disease.
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| Dr Shao-Hua Lu talks to medical students about life as a psychiatrist at the February event. The other disciplines represented were emergency medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, urology, pediatrics, general practice, dermatology, endocrinology, surgery, and neurology. |
The BC Medical Journal is pleased to announce Ms Laura Budd as the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for 2013 for her article, “Physician tweet thyself: A guide for integrating social media into medical practice” (BCMJ 2013;55:38-40).
Read MoreA new technique that targets proteins that cause disease and destroys pathological proteins in the cell has been developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Brain Research Centre, part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Researchers suggest that the findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, have important implications for diseases including Alzheimer disease, Huntington disease, stroke, and even cancers.
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