Health committee  Of course, yes, as supporting my previous comments, I would fully endorse putting that forward.

Health committee  As you know, the U.S. had declared the 1990s the decade of the brain. What followed was an explosion of research, which is why 90% of what we know about the brain was discovered in the last 15 to 20 years. I would overwhelmingly support declaring 2014 the year of the brain. I t

Health committee  We have made an outreach to all organizations to say we would like to partner with them. Having that kind of partnership and input is something that we strongly feel will make a huge difference in the quality of the study. Our approach is an open model. We can't predetermine ho

Health committee  Yes. Do you want to cover the part about CIHR?

Health committee  We talk about the CIHR, but we should also mention the National Research Council of Canada because it is quite focused on the commercial aspect of research discovery, and it's also looking internationally to find the countries where there's complementarity. We're not just formi

Health committee  The $100 million is a match-funding program, so it is a public-private partnership with one component being to stimulate private investment in brain research. So a potential envelope of $200 million over the next five years will be allocated to the three research programs I descr

Health committee  No, this is partly because of the commonalities approach. I can't emphasize this enough. I've been involved in this field for over 10 years, and my sense is that some conditions will receive more attention, in many cases because of the number of people affected. But there are man

Health committee  I'll begin. Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the committee for receiving us today. The brain is the most vital and complex organ in the human body, and it is the source of all human experience and understanding. There are more than 1,000 brain disorders, inclu

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Madam Chair, if I may, only relatively recently have we actually understood the burden of disease for the brain. I remember even 10 years ago, when I first started talking about the idea of creating an entity around the brain, people said, this is impossible. We're diseases, or w

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  That was actually our experience, as well, in doing the brain repair program and the large team grants. There's another aspect to what Dr. Quirion has said, and that is that in addition to trying to cobble together a bunch of grants for one researcher, if they want to collaborat

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  My perspective, and again, this is based on 10 years of really talking to everybody involved from the patient side and the research funding side and the side involving the VHOs, has been that we do need to start thinking about a national strategy that has to do with the whole bra

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  It is. We are a member of Neurological Health Charities as an organization, but we represent all of the brain disorders.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  No, I'm not a scientist. I was brought on board because one of our purposes was to not have what might be perceived as a bias of science. It was to use the science advisory committee to provide advice but lead an actual program that looks at how we can better do science.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  That's based on several studies. We have that documented in the material I have circulated. We looked at what Health Canada had done in terms of evaluating the economic burden. It never had a category for brain disorders, so we put together this category based on the different di

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  It is $60 billion.