Mapping the brain using advanced neuroimaging
July 29, 2022
Using advanced neuroimaging, UBC scientists are changing how we understand and treat mental health disorders.
After her brother’s death, Lisa Ridgway found herself overtaken by a sadness that wouldn’t go away.
“When he received the cancer diagnosis, I did everything I could to help,” Lisa remembers. She travelled from B.C. to Australia, where her brother lived, to donate bone marrow. The transplant worked, and his cancer went into remission for about two hopeful years. The disease returned, and a second transplant couldn’t save him.
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