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A global perspective on team trauma training

By Diane Weidner, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning

Classified as: Global Health, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning, surgery, trauma
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Published on: 11 May 2018

Child abuse affects brain wiring

By Katherine Gombay

Classified as: child abuse, neural connections, trauma, childhood, neurons, nerve fibres, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, External, staff, faculty
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Published on: 25 Sep 2017
Microglia

Attack! Silent watchmen charge to defend the nervous system

In many pathologies of the nervous system, there is a common event - cells called microglia are activated from surveillant watchmen into fighters.  Microglia are the immune cells of the nervous system, ingesting and destroying pathogens and damaged nerve cells. Until now little was known about the molecular mechanisms of microglia activation despite this being a critical process in the body.

Classified as: brain, Development, Gene, neurological, immune response, microglia, epilepsy, injury, neurological disease, pathology, trauma
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Published on: 15 Oct 2012
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