2016
Je marche 脿 c么t茅 de moi,
jane MAPPIN danse
25th and 26th November, 8:00 PM
Th茅芒tre Rouge du Conservatoire, 4750, avenue Henri-Julien
Billeterie du Conservatoire 514.873.4031听 poste 313听
With the trilogy Je marche 脿 c么t茅 de moi, Jane Mappin has created a startlingly vivid gestural language, precise and compassionate, to convey the wordless anguish of mental illness. Her performance, infused simultaneously with intimacy and detachment, manifests the profound ambivalence of a world forever at odds with itself in the face of madness; while Daniel Firth is nothing short of astonishing in the subtlety and power he brings to the embodiment of a yearning, stricken man.
Arthur Holden, playwright
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The Wounded Brain Healed
The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934-1984
Published May 2016
By William Feindel and Richard Leblanc
Published for the Montreal Neurological Institute
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The Wounded Brain Healed听 by William Feindel and Richard Leblanc, covers a period when EEG was developed as a useful clinical tool, mesial temporal sclerosis was described, and the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in temporal lobe epilepsy was discovered. It was a time when the structure-function relationship of the cerebral cortex was ascertained, the supplementary motor area was discov颅ered, and the relationship of handedness to cerebral dominance was established. The hippocampus was found to be the site of short-term memory and the concept of the plurality of memory was formulated. Computed tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and positron emission tomography were introduced to North America, among other technological advances.听听 Read more
2015
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
Neurologist and best selling author Oliver Sacks passed away at the age of 82 on August 30th, 2015.听 His autobiography "On the Move: A Life" had been published only 5 months earlier in April.听 The New York Times has referred to Sacks as the "the poet laureate of medicine".听 Read Sacks' memoir or revisit one of his many books exploring the world of brain disorders.
2014
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Published May 6, 2014
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean is an exploration through time of neurological curiosities (with many pages highlighting the career and discoveries of Wilder Penfield).
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Published August 19, 2014
Neuroscience听 and 鈥渟elf-help鈥� meet in this book by 91社区鈥檚 own Dr. Daniel Levitin from the Department of Psychology.听 Through the latest cognitive neuroscience research, Dr. Levitin explains how the mind organizes,听 allowing readers to gain mastery in managing various aspects of their lives: including time, the workplace and even the kitchen drawer at home.听 Read more:
Suspicious Minds:
How Culture Shapes Madness
Published July 21, 2014
In this book, Joel and Ian Gold explore how mental illness is molded by culture. True stories, such as how one of Dr. Joel Gold's patients believes his life is broadcast around the world as in the movie The Truman Show, in conjunction with the latest research, shed light on the delusional brain. Ian Gold (of 91社区's Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry) is the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Psychiatry.
Play it again, Sam
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18 March 2014
Research from 91社区 reveals that the brain鈥檚 motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than music they have only heard. A recent study by Prof. Caroline Palmer of the Department of Psychology sheds new light on how humans perceive and produce sounds, and may pave the way for investigations into whether motor learning could improve or protect memory or reduce cognitive impairment in aging populations.
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William Feindel (1918-2014)
14 January 2014
The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 91社区 and the 91社区 Health Centre regretfully announced the death of William Feindel, O.C., G.O.Q., MDCM, D. Phil., one of Canada's most distinguished neurosurgeons and The Neuro鈥檚 third director on Jan 14, 2104.听
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2013
In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work
by Rita Levi-Montalcini
(April 22, 1909 - Dec 20, 2012)
Levi-Montalcini's lifestory is a true inspiration in 'the beauty of imperfection' and persistance in the most difficult circumstances.听 This combination brought Levi-Montalcini to be the fourth woman in history to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1986).听
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Building Brains
14 January 2013
Recipient of the Friesen Prize in Health Science Research, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne identified important mechanisms for the formation of the normal human brain, which ultimately opened new frontiers in the world of neuro-degeneration, and spinal chord injuries. He talks with Paul Kennedy.
Imagination, Part 1 & 2
6 February 2013
The poet William Blake claimed that the imagination is central to our perception and experience of reality. More than 200 years later, scientific research on the brain and creativity confirms the great poet's insight.听
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A Word to the Wise,
Part 1 & 2
8 March 2013
Times have changed. So has the study of wisdom. Philosophers, make room for the scientists! In this two-part series,听Marilyn Powell听talks to psychologists, sociologists,听 neuroscientists - and the wise that dwell among us - about a very old topic. What they have discovered about the nature of wisdom and being wise will enlighten and surprise you.听
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
30 July听 2013
This book by Patricia S. Churchland is a philosopher鈥檚 exploration of the latest brain science鈥攁nd its ethical and practical implications.听 Link to the New York Times review .
2012
March 2012
The age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel
Recommended by听Dr. Kathleen Cullen,听The Age of Insight听takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind鈥攐ur conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions鈥攁nd how mind and brain relate to art.听
Artist Chuck Close:
My Life as a Rolling Neurological Clinic
Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society 2012.听
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