Down Syndrome Research Foundation

1409 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby
British Columbia, Canada V5B 4J8

email: info@dsrf.org

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The Down Syndrome Research Foundation offers extensive resources for studies of human development and disability.  In addition to the MEG lab, resources include a population registry of families of individuals with Down syndrome (DS), a registry of control subjects, a database of behavioral and medical measurements evolving from this registry, medical and speech/language clinics, teaching classrooms, adjunct research laboratories, and a library.

The multidisciplinary nature of the DSRF provides an ideal environment for the training of undergraduate and graduate students in both the health and applied research fields. Researchers currently using the MEG laboratory are drawn from all the major universities in BC, several hospitals in the province, and universities and hospitals in Alberta, Ontario, and outside of Canada. This work is shedding new light on perceptual-motor compatibility, visual-motor control, sensory motor integration, coordination dynamics, neural plasticity, visual processing in reading impaired children and adults, neural diagnostic markers, evoked auditory responses, signal processing, cognitive processing, attention, perception and emotion.

Researchers interested in utilizing the resources of the DSRF should complete and return the Application for Approval of Research.

If you are not already an affiliated researcher you will be required to also complete and return the Principal Researcher Registration Form.