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$10.6M grant supports innovative autism project

webfull — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:48:30 +0000

McGill Translational Platform in Autism Research will help uncover the disorders’ neural foundations

A new project at The Neuro, �㽶��Ƶ and the Research Institute of the �㽶��Ƶ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded $10.6M in financial support as part of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund.

Published: 8 April 2024

Boris Bernhardt wins CAN's 2022 New Investigator Award

webfull — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:10:13 +0000

Together with Dr. Birgit Frauscher, Bernhardt co-directs The Neuro’s new Centre of Excellence in Epilepsy

Since joining The Neuro in 2016, Boris Bernhardt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, has published pioneering research on the organization and development of the healthy brain. His achievements have been recognized this week by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, who have awarded him the 2022 New Investigator Award.

Published: 12 April 2022

Study shows how our brains sync hearing with vision

webfull — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:52:31 +0000

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds

Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.

Published: 11 May 2021

Diamond Therapeutics Signs Agreement with �㽶��Ƶ for Research on Low-Dose LSD

webfull — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:13:50 +0000

TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2021 /CNW/ - Diamond Therapeutics Inc. ("Diamond"), a leading psychedelic drug development company focused on low-dose therapies for mental health, has entered into an agreement with �㽶��Ƶ for the exclusive use of Dr. Gabriella Gobbi's groundbreaking studies with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), its mechanism of action on the brain, and its potential for use at low doses in the treatment of mental health disorders.

Published: 4 February 2021

An exceptional donation to support autism research

webfull — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:35:54 +0000

Q1K: A collaborative undertaking involving 1,000 families to transform autism care

Published: 13 November 2019

Music improves social communication in autistic children

webfull — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:22:48 +0000

Engaging in musical activities such as singing and playing instruments in one-on-one therapy can improve autistic children’s social communication skills, improve their family’s quality of life, as well as increased brain connectivity in key networks, according to researchers at Université de Montréal and �㽶��Ƶ.

Published: 5 November 2018

New Insight Into How Autism Might Develop in Human Brain

webfull — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:46:30 +0000

In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a �㽶��Ƶ team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.

By taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming those cells to become brain cells through genetic engineering, Dr. Ernst, graduate student Scott Bell, and Edward A. Fon and Thomas M. Durcan, colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, tracked how a brain cell with the patient’s own mutation develops improperly.

Published: 26 June 2018

New Insight Into How Autism Might Develop in Human Brain

webfull — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:13:26 +0000

Montreal — In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a McGill team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.

Published: 26 June 2018

$1M donation to support autism research powered by open science

webfull — Tue, 29 May 2018 17:26:53 +0000

Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation shares The Neuro’s open science vision to accelerate drug discovery and find new and effective treatments for autism spectrum disorders

Published: 29 May 2018

Transformative donation of $16 million establishes new autism research centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute

webfull — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:14:35 +0000

The Azrieli Centre for Autism Research will foster innovations in therapy and a better understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

A new research centre in Montreal will help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and lead to the development of better diagnostic tools and more effective therapies for people with autism.

Published: 23 October 2017