This month, we took part in three scientific days:

1) The (online) scientific day of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM)

This annual event took place online on May 6. The schedule included a poster session in which members of the lab participated. You can watch the presentations that Xiyue and Alexandre recorded for the event:

2) The symposium “Approches innovantes pour un vieillissement cognitif réussi“, organized by our lab as part of the 89th ACFAS conference

This event, which we had been preparing since December, was held on May 13. Pascale and Marilyne hosted the day, which began with guest lectures by researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in aging from six universities in Quebec and Ontario: Carol Hudon and Andréanne Simard from Université Laval, Claire Andréfrom Université de Montréal, Stephen Cunnane from Université de Sherbrooke, Claude Alain from University of Toronto, Anna Zumbansen from University of Ottawa and Julie Fortier from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Their lectures covered topics as varied as mindfulness, sleep, ketones (a source of energy for the brain), music, singing and volunteering, and their relationship to aging, and especially, positive aging.

The day continued with a poster session, in which students and professors from various universities in the province participated. Among the presenters were several members of the lab: Valérie, Marjorie, Sabrina and Alexandre.

Each poster presentation was independently evaluated by two researchers for the purpose of a student scientific presentation competition. The student who won first place in the competition and the $300 prize is Catherine Gosselin, a doctoral student in psychology (neuropsychology program) at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. The student who obtained the second place and the prize of $200 is Marianne Lévesque, doctoral candidate in psychology (clinical neuropsychology program) at the Université de Montréal. Congratulations to both!

The day ended with a round table discussion including our invited speakers and participants. Discussions focused on recent advances in the field of cognitive aging and ideas for innovative research projects in the field were shared. The discussions turned out to be very interesting and led to the emergence of several ideas!

All in all, it was a remarkable day and we thank all the participants, as well as our partners, the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music and Les Services Conseils Systematix Inc., who contributed to the success of this day.

3) The annual scientific day of the Quebec bio-imaging network, in Sherbrooke, on June 2nd.

This is one of our favourite events of the year, and a beloved research network, and it was in person for the first time in two years! Pascale, Valérie, and Edith traveled to Sherbrooke to attend multiple talks on brain imaging and meet with all those in the province whose research focus on bio-imaging.

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