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@MyLakehead Researcher Receiving $100K to Examine PTSI in Thunder Bay Firefighters @CIHR_IRSC @mylakehead @OPFFAHealth @CityThunderBay @FFAO1

THUNDER BAY, ON – Lakehead University’s Dr. Kathryn Sinden is receiving $100,534 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that will assist firefighters who experience post-traumatic stress injury while on the job in Thunder Bay.

Dr. Sinden, assistant professor in Kinesiology, has developed a strong research partnership with Thunder Bay Fire Rescue (TBFR), the Thunder Bay…

New Understanding of How Muscles Work

Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at McGill now makes it possible to look much more closely at how sarcomeres, the basic building blocks within all skeletal and cardiac muscles, work together. It’s a discovery that should advance research into a wide range of muscle malfunctions.

Gut Science Is Radically Changing What We Know of the Human Body

An accurate but less-than-riveting title for Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta’s bestselling book for parents published this past September could have been: Enhancing Environmental Biodiversity for Optimizing Pediatric Gut Microbiome Health. Instead, Dr. Finlay, a professor of microbiology at the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Arrieta, an assistant professor of physiology and…

Women are from Earth

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus –remember that book? It was published in 1992, and although it was really talking about relationship issues between the sexes, it seems to hint at other, more physiological differences that underpin the disparity -differences that have sometimes been overlooked, or perhaps ignored, in many pharmaceutical drug studies. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sport-exe…

Gene mutations shown to cause form of HSP

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) have identified novel gene mutations that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a step forward in efforts to treat this debilitating disease.

It is estimated that between two and 10 people per 100,000 in the general population have HSP, a disease characterized by weakness or spasticity in the lower limbs. HSP is caused…

I was asked to give an interview for the Canadian Institutes for Mental Health podcast “Action in Health Research.” The discussion is on immigration and mental health, which is a topic that I am currently studying through the Neuroscience (IPN) program at McGill University.

You can listen to it here: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49602.html

The topic of immigration and mental health resonates with me on a very personal level. I am Italian-American, the descendant of immigrants, and have myself lived in multiple countries. It was an honor to have the opportunity to discuss some of the challenges that many immigrants face after moving to a new country, especially as many countries face an influx of Syrian refugees. 

Hopefully this podcast is informative to some and welcoming to all.