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Naguib Mechawar, Neurobiologiste, Institut Douglas; Professeur titulaire, Département de psychiatrie, McGill University

The Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank: a goldmine for research on brain diseases

The experimental methods available today allow us to break the brain down into its elementary components in order to understand its functions and dysfunctions. (Shutterstock)

Human beings have always been fascinated by the brain.

Although scientific knowledge about this 1.3 kg of fragile substance embedded in our cranium has long been incomplete, dazzling technical breakthroughs made in recent years are now ushering in a Golden Age of molecular neuroscience.

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