The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University is an international leader in human and machine vision research. Uniting researchers from psychology, computer science & engineering, biology and kinesiology & health science, work at the centre is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, rooted in a fundamental research programme that merges techniques in human psychophysics, visual neuroscience and computational theory.
The Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC) provides a centralized and focused research emphasis on the importance of skeletal muscle to the overall health and well-being of Canadians. Skeletal muscle, 40 per cent of a human's body mass, is a unique and large tissue that significantly contributes to an individual's metabolism, locomotion, and overall quality of life.
The LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research is a collaborative group of faculty and students that supports community-engaged interdisciplinary research in health, education, relationships and development of infants, children, adolescents, emerging adults and families everywhere.
VISTA, funded by the Canada-First Research Excellence Fund, will integrate the biological and computational vision research of five York faculties, five research centres, and over 50 partners to produce technologies that will help people live healthier, safer, and more productive lives.
The Stereoscopic 3D Lab @ York is a unique interdisciplinary initiative that brings together artist/filmmakers and scientists to research, create and explore stereoscopic moving images in cinema, installations and new media.
Associations & Organizations
Below are links to professional, academic, advocacy and other types of associations.
Provincially-funded, not-for-profit research centre maximizing the impact of neuroscience and establishing Ontario as a world leader in brain research, commercialization and care.
OBI is fulfilling their vision through convergent partnerships between researchers, clinicians, industry, patients, and their advocates to foster discovery and deliver innovative products and services that improve the lives of those living with brain disorders.
Women’s Brain Health Initiative, established by Lynn Posluns in 2012, has been at the forefront on research related to gender differences in the brain. With Posluns’ leadership, the initiative has evolved into a global foundation that funds research with a focus on prevention, and provides the public with information, tools and activities for people of all ages to remain cognitively healthy throughout their lives.
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience represents the largest group of Canadian scientists interested in the brain, spinal cord and the entire nervous system.
The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) is a non-profit organization whose primary function is to advance Canadian research in experimental psychology and behavioural neuroscience.
The Society's primary goal is to promote the exchange of information among basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. The Society was formed in 1969 and it has grown from 500 members to nearly 37,000 and is the world's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) supports research to enhance mental health, neurological health, vision, hearing, and cognitive functioning and to reduce the burden of related disorders through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation.
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is an international federation of scientific societies for basic scientists and physicians whose research is focused on the brain and nervous system. FENS is the European partner of the American Society for Neuroscience(SfN).
CABHI is a unique collaboration of health care, science, industry, not-for-profit and government partners whose aim is to help improve quality of life for the world’s aging population, allowing older adults to age safely in the setting of their choice while maintaining their cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being.
The American Neurological Association is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences; and to expanding both our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and our ability to treat them.
The Society for Neuroscience and other organizations have long sponsored the website BrainFacts.org, which has basic information about how the human brain functions. Recently, the site launched an interactive 3-D brain.
