After providing all the funding for The Brain from Top to Bottom for over 10 years, the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction informed us that because of budget cuts, they were going to be forced to stop sponsoring us as of March 31st, 2013.

We have approached a number of organizations, all of which have recognized the value of our work. But we have not managed to find the funding we need. We must therefore ask our readers for donations so that we can continue updating and adding new content to The Brain from Top to Bottom web site and blog.

Please, rest assured that we are doing our utmost to continue our mission of providing the general public with the best possible information about the brain and neuroscience in the original spirit of the Internet: the desire to share information free of charge and with no adverstising.

Whether your support is moral, financial, or both, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Bruno Dubuc, Patrick Robert, Denis Paquet, and Al Daigen





Friday, 9 January 2026
Migration of the website from thebrain.mgill.ca to thebrain.lecerveau.ca

In December 2025, I migrated my website The Brain from Top to Bottom from www.thebrain.mcgill.ca to www.thebrain.lecerveau.ca. (If you have visited the site since then, you may not even have noticed, because if you type the old address into your browser, you are now redirected to the new one automatically, and that new address appears in the browser’s address bar.) At the same time, I migrated the French version of this site, Le cerveau à tous les niveaux, from www.lecerveau.mcgill.ca to www.lecerveau.ca. Here too, if you now type the old address, you will be directed to the new one automatically. The main reason that I made these moves is that the McGill University server that used to host this site was constantly being updated with new security and other features that were highly complex and incompatible with this site as I had originally designed it. In this post, I want to share the history behind my decision to migrate these sites. (more…)

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