Sunnybrook’s Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre
There is nothing more intricate in our universe than the human brain.
Sunnybrook’s Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre is a centre unlike any other in Canada, dedicated to understanding its complexities and making brave new discoveries for brain health.
Open to patients and families as of January 2025, the Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre provides a full spectrum of care from youth to late adulthood.
Made possible thanks to a leadership gift from Garry Hurvitz, which mobilized more than 7,000 donors and the Government of Ontario to transform a bold idea into a state-of-the-art facility in pursuit of revolutionary approaches to the most complex brain disorders of our time.
Spanning three storeys, the Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre is an innovative and collaborative 121,000-square-foot space that unites our multidisciplinary teams under one roof, providing world-class care and unmatched leadership in focused ultrasound, dementia, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stroke, traumatic brain injury and more.
This is a place for hope and healing. It is home to:
- Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, one of the world’s first to offer a complete range of neuromodulation strategies to influence brain circuitry (including focused ultrasound, deep brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation);
- Murphy Family Centre for Mental Health, providing compassionate and comprehensive inpatient psychiatric care for youth and adults;
- Yuval & Lori Barzakay Brain Health Clinic, where research directly impacts outpatient care in stroke, memory, ALS, traumatic brain injury and more;
- Ontario’s first Circadian Sleep Centre, with sleep rooms dedicated to round-the-clock testing.
Garry Hurvitz – Champion for Brain Sciences
Discover Garry Hurvitz’s inspiration for supporting Sunnybrook and specifically mental health, an area of medicine that is both complex and underfunded.
We designed this bold new centre for you.
Learn how the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program is making a difference.
After a severe stroke, Barry credits Sunnybrook with saving his life – and golf game.
Access to a life-changing rTMS treatment at Sunnybrook helped Stephanie feel like herself again.