Astronauts launch Brain Awareness Week

Marc Garneau (left), MP Westmount-Ville-Marie and former astronaut and Robert Thirsk (MD’82), Canadian Space Agency Astronaut, field questions in the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre on March 14. Garneau, the first Canadian in space, and Thirsk, who holds the record for most time in space (204 days, 18 hours) by a Canadian, helped open the MNI’s Brain Awareness Week. During the event, Dr. Thirsk, a McGill medical graduate, returned a surgical dissector that belonged to Neuro founder, Wilder Penfield that he had carried into space.

Marc Garneau (left), MP Westmount-Ville-Marie and former astronaut and Robert Thirsk (MD’82), Canadian Space Agency Astronaut, field questions in the Montreal Neurological Institute’s Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre on March 14. Garneau, the first Canadian in space, and Thirsk, who holds the record for most time in space (204 days, 18 hours) by a Canadian, helped open the MNI’s Brain Awareness Week. During the event, Dr. Thirsk, a McGill medical graduate, returned a surgical dissector that belonged to Neuro founder, Wilder Penfield that he had carried into space.