Tropical coral reefs are the most biodiverse underwater ecosystem, providing a home to more than a quarter of all marine species. No strangers to environmental stressors and the on-going impacts of climate change, the survival of corals has increasingly been under threat in recent years. A collective of researchers, including from 香蕉视频, have analyzed how environmental factors influence the growth and health of corals and found that more species of corals are living in the mangrove forests than in nearby shallow reefs.
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Published on: 18 May 2021
Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from 香蕉视频, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.
The researchers set out to study how factors such as people鈥檚 socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.
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Published on: 12 May 2021
To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds
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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.
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Published on: 11 May 2021
Study uses sugar to make and deliver pudding-like brain implants that reduce foreign body response
Brain implants are used to treat neurological dysfunction, and their use for enhancing cognitive abilities is a promising field of research. Implants can be used to monitor brain activity or stimulate parts of the brain using electrical pulses. In epilepsy, for example, brain implants can determine where in the brain seizures are happening.
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Published on: 4 May 2021
April 6, 2021|听The mis- and dis-information that fills many corners of the American media ecosystem is having an affect on Canadians'听perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Professor Taylor Owen and other McGill听academics. The McGill Newsroom has the full story.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2021
The Max Bell School's Media Ecosystem Observatory is out with a new research paper on vaccine hesitancy in Canada.
Some of the key findings:
Sixty-five percent听of Canadians intend to take a vaccine, with some slight erosion since a high in July. Approximately 15 percent听of Canadians are unwilling, and an additional 20 percent听are unsure.听
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Published on: 26 Apr 2021
Brain Canada grant will aid research into neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is an important tool in understanding the mechanism of brain disorders. Research in the field has gotten a major boost thanks to a $1.85M grant from Brain Canada to support EEGNet, an open repository for EEG data that helps scientists investigate neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Published on: 1 Apr 2021
Comparing two neural maps reveals the roles of genes in cognition, perception and feeling
Many psychiatric disorders have genetic causes, but the exact mechanism of how genes influence higher brain function remains a mystery. A new study provides a map linking the genetic signature of functions across the human brain, a tool that may provide new targets for future treatments.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2021
This new research from听Sonja Solomun, Maryna Polataiko, and Helen A. Hayes of the 听delves into key considerations for the regulation of internet platforms in Canada.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2021
In collaboration with Oxford University's Blavatnik School and Institute for Research on Public Policy and its Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation,听Max Bell School alumni and Policy Scholar听Paisley Sim听co-authored a working paper that explores the relative stringency of COVID-19 policies in Canada.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2021
April 23, 2021 | In our听fragmented federal system, policies on issue like paid sick leave can vary drastically from province to province. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a听light on the problems with such disparities. In her recent brief for the Institute for Research on Public Policy,听MPP alumna Paisley Sim听laid out a solution that would ensure people across Canada get the support they need in this time of crisis.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2021
Delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines should reduce case numbers in the near term; however, the longer term case burden and the potential for evolution of viral 鈥榚scape鈥� from immunity will depend on the robustness of immune responses generated by natural infections and one or two vaccine doses, according to a study from 香蕉视频 and Princeton University published today in Science.
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Published on: 9 Mar 2021
$4.67M from Brain Canada will help probe the brain鈥檚 mysteries and create international research links
Research at The Neuro鈥檚 McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of 香蕉视频 will receive a major boost thanks to a $4.67M grant from Brain Canada鈥檚 Platform Support Grant (PSG) program.
Published on: 3 Mar 2021
Program brings together multidisciplinary teams with expertise in various areas of neurodegenerative disease
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Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) make up a large part of eight projects funded by ALS Canada and the Brain Canada Foundation as part of their 2020 Discovery Grant Program, which brings together multidisciplinary research teams with expertise in various areas of ALS and neurodegenerative diseases to investigate critical areas of disease processes and clinical care.
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Published on: 15 Feb 2021
Supported by the Max Bell School's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression has released a new report detailing six recommendations to enable citizens, governments and platforms to deal with online hate speech in Canada.
Read the Commission's report .
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Published on: 3 Feb 2021
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