The Neuron Family

The thing that will set your child apart is teaching them what you already know. A parent is a child’s greatest teacher. This week I brought back the neuroscience sticker sheet @theNeuronFamily designed with the Canadian Association for Neuroscience featuring famous Canadian neuroscientists. For the past year, I’ve been casually teaching my daughter about Canadian neuroscientists during our car rides to school. She was thrilled to see them turned into adorable stickers.

Good morning Montreal. I’m sure I’m not the only one a bit tired this morning after staying up watching that stressful hockey game!! 🏒

Come by our table at @CAN_ACN and get a sticker based on our Brain Colouring and Learning about touch and pain! @aecrpain

We have a new series of neurons based on Famous Canadian Neuroscientists 🇨🇦 🧠 Created in collaboration with @CAN_ACN

Stuart Trenholm introduces public lectures on memory research in Montreal #can2026

Terrific talk by @m_r_williamson this morning about CD51 astrocyte subpopulations! 🧠 #astroglia #CANGlia26

Get your tickets for the CAN 2026 Public lectures - happening May 7 - 5-8PM Learn about past, current and future memory research in Montreal with engaging lecturers. Featuring Eric Andrew-Gee, Mihaela Iordanova and Blake Richards - eventbrite.ca/e/je-me-souvie…

May the Force (4th) be with you ✨ - Queen Amygdala

@NeuroWoodworks This is amazing! is this wood naturally purple?

Another view of that latest pyramidal neuron I made. That purple wood is so unique.

@NeuroWoodworks Love it! 😍

A smaller version of the meditation neuron based on the design by @theneuronfamily!

#NeuroArtFriday #BrainBreak #SelfCare #rest

3 f tall, this is the tallest motor Neuron I have ever made. It was cut and carved out of Walnut wood and will soon be complemented with a cherry wood muscle. #sciart

"The more we know, the more we realize there is to know" - Jennifer Doudna Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique.

I love long form conversations! Today I has the chance to speak with Carine Bedran for her podcast Take the Lead. We spoke about my career path as a neuroscientist, general principles of neuroplasticity that I try to apply to my own life, and what I’m learning in this season as a “homemaker”. Luckily tech support was on site when I couldn’t figure out why my camera was out of focus 🤪 Episode coming soon.

🎹🎼🎶🧠✨ Dr. Oliver Sacks was a neurologist and author. He wrote many books about the brain including "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain". #neuroscience #music #brainhealth

Creation of the day, an astrocyte cut out of Padauk wood. The red/orange is actually the natural color. #neurobiology

We're excited to share a new colouring page created in collaboration with the Virtual Brain Health Centre @VirtualBrainCtr 🧠😄📚🎨✍️ Link to download the PDF here: virtualbrainhealthcenter.com/coloring-pages/ #NeuroX

Happy Brain Awareness Week! 🧠🎉 #BrainAwarenessWeek #NeuroX

Happy #WorldSleepDay Wishing you all 7-9 hours of sleep nightly! 🧠💤