Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress (CNS)

The Centre for the Neurobiology of Stress (CNS) is a $10-million state-of-the-art facility. The centre tackles a series of critical areas: long-term memory and consolidation; the role of stress in natural population; maternal effects and maternal programming through epigenetic changes; neuroprotective roles of heat shock (stress) proteins; neurobiology and behaviour using fear, addiction, and other paradigms to understand brain functioning and organization; molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease; maternal adversity and early life stress-on-stress response systems in the brain and in the immune system; and host/pathogen interactions at the cellular and molecular level.