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The Bright Lights Initiative is aimed at taking an old person’s disease and making it a young person’s cause. Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging and much about it remains a mystery.
What we do know is that, like cancer, diabetes, or heart disease, there is a significant opportunity around lowering the risks, and or delaying the onset of the disease, through diet, physical exercise and cognitive activity. Unlike cancer, diabetes, or heart disease there is no known cure, or treatment that puts patients into remission.
what it is
We want to raise awareness in Canadian high school students about the importance of understanding and taking care of their brains. So their brain will last as long as their body does.
Phase One of the Bright Lights program is a pilot project, developed in partnership with research teams in the University of Toronto Department of Physiology. The main objective of this project is to provide the high school students with opportunities to gain hands-on research experiences prior to their university/college education.
how it works
Participating schools will study the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, as well as other neural behaviours, through hands-on research in the class room. This work will be supervised by Program Advocates from the University of Toronto.
The project will culminate in a special event hosted by the Firefly Foundation at U of T where students will present the results of their research to a panel of experts from the Faculty of Physiology
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