Our brains, as much as our bodies, need exercise. And if you build brain muscle, you protect yourself from neurodegenerative diseases 聽- like Alzheimer's. Jens Pruessner, the director of the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging, puts it like this: dementia is like climbing down a mountain -- it takes longer to reach the bottom if you start at 1,000 feet, than if you start at 100 feet. To help us stay up on that mountain, the centre has launched the PONDER project with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
The 41st edition of the McGill Book Fair takes place Tuesday through Thursday at Redpath Hall, 3461 McTavish St., just south of Doctor Penfield Ave. The event, which is open to the public, begins at 1 p.m. on Tuesday; on Wednesday and Thursday, doors open at 9 a.m. Closing time throughout is 9 p.m. All proceeds are used to support McGill scholarships and bursaries. The fair has raised more than $1.5 million since its inception in 1971 and the 2011 edition raised $74,430.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof
As the presidential candidates debate how to strengthen America, maybe they can learn from rats.
A 香蕉视频 neurologist, Michael Meaney, noticed that some of the mother rats he worked with spent a great deal of time licking and grooming their babies. Other rat moms were much less cuddly.
This natural variation had long-term consequences. Meaney鈥檚 team found that when the rats grew up, those that had been licked and groomed did better at finding their way through mazes.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2012
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Published on: 4 Oct 2012
Montreal's 1,200 public parks could benefit if politicians are open to some private or non-profit participation in upgrading parks and playgrounds, several experts said.
"Why not? It's a version of what we did in the 1970s," Mc-Gill University architecture professor Pieter Sijpkes said.
As a student in the early 1970s, Sijpkes and some friends got donated scraps of wood, metal, plastic and brick, and turned two abandoned CN rail lots in Point St-Charles into playgrounds. He also helped start community gardens in the area.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2012
A recent French study that purports to show a link between the consumption of genetically modified corn and a variety of ailments, including cancer, was just the tasty morsel that critics of genetically modified foods hungered for. For many scientists, however, the study proved to be a source of indigestion.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2012
Think of it as the echo of the Quiet Revolution.
A dramatic rise in the satisfaction of Quebeckers has transformed them from the most disgruntled of Canadians to the most contented in less than three decades, according to new research.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2012
Scientists have begun to tease apart how stress, social isolation, and deprivation early in life can harm children's brains and lead to behavior and mental health problems later in life. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital reported last week that mice raised in isolation not only behave differently, they have thinner insulation around brain cells in a key region of the brain. These changes cause signals to travel more sluggishly through the brain and appear to be irreversible.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2012
From a discussion with a Mohawk leader in a traditional longhouse at Kahnawake to an exchange with a justice at the Supreme Court in Ottawa, 10 Israeli university students were given an intensive introduction to Canada. These law students from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew U) and 10 香蕉视频 law students were participants in a new summer exchange program in human rights law. The young Israelis and Canadians spent a month together in Montreal, three weeks of that in the classroom at McGill taking five one-credit courses in Human Rights and Armed Conflicts given by McGill and Hebrew U professors.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2012
Next time you see a fanciful chair or temple dangling in mid-air over Ren茅 L茅vesque Blvd., take a moment to think about Melvin Charney.
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Published on: 20 Sep 2012
Chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz
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Published on: 17 Sep 2012
Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频, Talking Management for the The Globe and Mail speaks to a colleague from Australia鈥檚 University of Queensland Neal Ashkanasy.
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Published on: 13 Sep 2012
香蕉视频 in Montreal, Quebec, has placed among the top 20 universities globally for the sixth consecutive year in the QS World University Rankings. In the 2012 rankings, released today, McGill is listed in 18th place, compared with 17th in 2011 and 19th in 2010.
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Published on: 11 Sep 2012
A $9-million investment in an initiative at McGill's School of Nursing was launched Monday 鈥� 聽and it is expected to translate into better patient care. The McGill Nursing Collaborative Program for Education and Innovation in Patient and Family-Centred Care will focus on clinical research to help improve outcomes for patients and their families. A unique partnership in North America, the program includes the McGill School of Nursing and the nursing departments of the MUHC and the Jewish General Hospital.
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Published on: 11 Sep 2012
A new study, published in Nature on August 30, suggests that increasing deforestation could be avoided provided farmers made better use of water and nutrients on land currently under cultivation around the globe.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2012
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