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According to Wikipedia, Max Sigmund Cynader CM, OBC, Ph.D, FRSC, FCAHS is a Canadian neuroscientist. He is the founding director of the Brain Research Centre and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. Born in Berlin in a displaced persons camp, the son of Polish Jews who escaped Poland before the Nazi invasion of Poland, Cynader emigrated to Canada in 1951. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1967 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1972. He did postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute in Germany before joining the Faculty in the departments of psychology and physiology at Dalhousie University. In 1988, he became head of the Ophthalmology Research Group at the University of British Columbia, and was appointed Director of the Brain Research Centre in 1998. Cynader's early research focused on the visual system and its postnatal development. He published influential papers on the mechanisms by which normal and abnormal visual experience affected the development of the visual cortex. In one paper, he showed that rearing kittens in stroboscopic illumination such that the visual system was exposed to a series of stationary images 8 times per second resulted in the development of visual cortex neurons which lacked the direction selectivity that characterised the cortex of normally reared animals. No effects were found in adult animals who were treated in the same way, illustrating the importance visual experience during early postnatal life in sculpting the visual system. In related work, he showed that there were well-defined postnatal critical periods during which the ocular preferences of cortical neurons could be modified by visual experience, and that these critical periods could be themselves be prolonged, apparently indefinitely, by rearing animals in the dark before the ocular dominance modifying procedures were undertaken. He further investigated the molecular mechanisms that underpinned the plasticity of the visual system, publishing papers on changes in gene expression, and receptor redistribution in the cortex associated with the critical period. In subsequent work, his interests broadened to include auditory processing mechanisms, the determinants of healthy brain aging, and the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders.

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