August 2018 newsletter

August 20, 2018 Learn the names of the winners of the 2018 Collaborative Innovation Grants and the Trainee Awards in our August newsletter.

Stroke more deadly for women and poses a greater burden: Heart & Stroke Report

June 5, 2018 Stroke disrupts women’s lives, changes their roles and threatens their independence June 5, 2018 – Women are disproportionately affected by stroke throughout their lives: More women die of stroke than men, more women are living with the effects of stroke, they have worse outcomes and

Away we go to Gatineau

May 16, 2018 More than 100 scientists and trainees will take part in the 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting at the Doubletree Hilton at 1170 Aylmer Road in Gatineau, Quebec — just across the Ottawa River from the Nation’s Capital — on June 11 and 12.

Clinical trial of CPSR-funded RecoverNow to roll out in three cities

April 16, 2018 Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi and researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute have received three years of funding from Heart & Stroke to study the efficacy of an innovative tablet-based approach to promote language recovery after stroke.

CPSR-funded ViaTherapy named one of Top 5 apps at U.K. rehab conference

April 16, 2018 The CPSR-funded ViaTherapy app (learn more at viatherapy.org) was recently named one of the Top 5 rehab apps at the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) meeting held in Manchester, U.K.

CPSR-funded Evidence-based Review gets major update

April 16, 2018 The 18th edition of the Stroke Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Review has been completed.  The SREBR, which is funded by the HSF Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, is available on its own active and free website.

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable to meet in Quebec

March 18, 2018 CPSR’s Dale Corbett and Lara Boyd are helping to organize the second international Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR2). The meeting takes place in Saint Sauveur, Quebec from October 20 to 22. The first roundtable, which involved about 60 researchers from Canada, the

CPSR research leader shows Finance Minister the value of stroke recovery research

March 15, 2018 CPSR research leader Dr. Lara Boyd, right, had a visit from federal finance minister Bill Morneau, centre, on March 6 to learn more about her innovative work as director of UBC’s Brain and Behaviour Lab. Along with CPSR Scientific Director Dr. Dale Corbett of the University of Ottawa

CPSR research study leads to $903K CIHR grant to study the impact of stroke lesions on recovery

January 29, 2018 CPSR catalyst funding enabled Dr. Numa Dancause of the Universite de Montreal to collect novel preliminary data that suggest lesion location strongly affects mechanisms of neuroplasticity after stroke. And, accordingly, lesion location is likely a key factor that influences recovery. These

Catalyst grant funding enables researcher to secure $394K award for exercise study

January 29, 2018 Funding received from CaSTOR (Canadian Stroke Trials for Optimized Results), a joint initiative of CPSR and the Canadian Stroke Consortium, helped a Montreal-based research team secure a $394K grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Marc Roig of McGill University will lead