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1935

While working on his University of Paris thesis, Herbert Jasper set up one of the first clinical electroencephalograph labs at Brown University

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1939

The EEG Department at MNI opened in January of 1939

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1940's

Over the next two decades, Drs. Jasper and Penfield studied epilepsy and worked to develop functional maps of the human brain

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1949

Dr. Donald O. Hebb published "The Organization of Behavior"

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1954

Brenda Milner authored a now renowned publication, “Intellectual Function of the Temporal Lobes"

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1955

Brenda Milner began working with “HM”

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1956

C. Miller Fisher continued to make significant contributions to the field of neurology with the descriptions of many cerebrovascular syndromes

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1957

Brenda Milner published another groundbreaking article

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1960

Fortier returned to Canada and became Director of the endocrinology lab at the Université Laval

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1962

Dr. Hubel and Dr. Wiesel published one of their earliest ground-breaking papers

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1963

Dr. David Hubel published his first book, The Visual Cortex of the Brain

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1966

Dr. Tulving published an influential paper on retrieval processes

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1972

Dr. Tulving published a book chapter in which he argued that memory for specific events and memory for general knowledge were the manifestations of two distinct memory systems

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1975

Dr. Hachinski co-founded the first acute comprehensive stroke unit in the world

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1981

Dr. Hubel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to our knowledge of how visual information is processed

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1983

Dr. Tulving published his book “Elements of Episodic Memory"

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1985

Dr. Weiss and colleagues identify ionotropic and metabotropic receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate.

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1992

On the space craft DISCOVERY, Dr. Bondar circled our planet at thirty thousand kilometres per hour, situated three hundred kilometres above Earth

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1992

Pivotal paper published in Science in 1992 announces seminal discovery that the adult mammalian central nervous system contains neural stem cells.

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1994

The Neuroscience Division of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre was formed with Dr. Quirion serving as its first scientific director

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1998

After a decade at UBC, Dr. Cynader was appointed Founding Director of the Brain Research Centre

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2000

NeuroVir was sold to a German biotechnology company that took NeuroVir’s technology into clinical trials

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2000

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) appointed Dr. Quirion as the first Science Director for the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA), one of Canada’s 13…

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2004 - 2017

Founding Director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute

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2011

Dr. Hachinski became the Inaugural chair of the World Brain Alliance

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