[…] AI is also finding use in helping physicians detect early signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain and understand how those physical changes unfold in different people. “When a radiologist reads a scan, it’s impossible to tell whether a person will progress to Alzheimer’s disease,” says Pedro Rosa-Neto, a neurologist at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2018
On sait que le sommeil et la température de notre corps sont régulés par l'horloge biologique. Charles Bourque, du Centre de recherche du CUSM à Montréal, a découvert une nouvelle fonction qui le serait aussi : la soif. Il en a fait la preuve de façon éclatante chez la souris.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2018
Lead researcher Jean-Nicolas Audet, from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Canada, said: “By comparing an extremely innovative species like the Barbados bullfinch with a closely related conservative one like the black-faced grassquit, we gain insight into the evolutionary mechanisms that can lead to divergence in behaviour.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2018
Robert Brandenberger, professeur de physique à l’Université McGill, qui l’a connu personnellement alors qu’il était stagiaire postdoctoral dans son équipe de 1985 à 1987, le confirme. « Il était très inspirant comme personne. Il était habité par la joie de vivre. Il aimait les gens, les étudiants. Il ne s’intéressait pas seulement au travail des étudiants, mais aussi à la vie quotidienne. Il était toujours présent à la pause de l’afternoon tea avec les étudiants et il allait même au cinéma avec eux le soir », relate-t-il.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2018
Find out about the McGill24 fundraiser for refugee students wishing to study at the university. McGill24 spokesperson Jenny Aboue Youn El Soud and alumni ambassador Gemma Peralta join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about the event.
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Published on: 15 Mar 2018
Off the southern coast of Malaysia, a futuristic city is rising from the sea… In the last two decades, more than 100 new cities have been (or are being) created from scratch, according to Sarah Moser, an assistant professor of geography at Montreal’s Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, where she runs a research lab that tracks new cities. These recent additions to the map tend to arise in developing countries like Morocco, Nigeria, Uganda, Myanmar and Indonesia.
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Published on: 13 Mar 2018
University students across Canada are giving up their creature comforts and basic necessities for five days to raise money and awareness for the homeless. The universities are looking to raise more than $20,000 (combined) for Dans La Rue and Chez Doris, which support homeless and at-risk youths and women respectively.
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Published on: 13 Mar 2018
Madhukar Pai, Director of McGill Global Health Programs at Canada's Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, explains that patients rarely present with a single problem, so diagnostic labs need to offer a variety of tests to enable disease diagnosis and management.
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Published on: 13 Mar 2018
Citizens can now pore over the late mayor’s personal copy of the Malouf report that draws conclusions about the 1976 Montreal Olympics fiasco.
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Published on: 13 Mar 2018
Only 34 of the top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings are run by women… #9. Ď㽶ĘÓƵ: Suzanne Fortier
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Published on: 12 Mar 2018
“The system that's in place, the supply management system, is good for QuĂ©bec producers and U.S. producers because it guarantees good prices and that allowed U.S. producers to actually expand rapidly in the last few years,” explains Pascal ThĂ©riault, an economist at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in MontrĂ©al.
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Published on: 12 Mar 2018
Jay Olson, a magician currently completing his PhD in psychiatry at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, has taken this experiment one step further. He has put people inside an MRI machine and convinced them that it can read their minds. So much so that he gets them to come up with the same prescribed number — between 10 to 99 — that he has jotted down before the experiment. Great, except that the MRI machine is not on. It merely serves as a gigantic placebo.
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Published on: 12 Mar 2018
Professeur au dĂ©partement de psychiatrie de l’UniversitĂ© McGill, le Dr Thomas Brown dirige une Ă©quipe de recherche transdisciplinaire sur la conduite avec les facultĂ©s affaiblies Ă l’Institut universitaire en santĂ© mentale Douglas, Ă MontrĂ©al. Avec la lĂ©galisation du cannabis qui s’en vient, il a rĂ©cemment menĂ© une revue de la littĂ©rature scientifique sur la marijuana au volant.Â
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Published on: 12 Mar 2018
Brenda Milner pousse avec appréhension la porte du bureau qu’elle occupe depuis des décennies aux Institut et hôpital neurologiques de Montréal, à l’Université McGill. Son adjointe l’a prévenue que les lieux avaient été repeints pendant le week-end et que du ménage avait dû y être fait.
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Published on: 12 Mar 2018
Comment by Rob Sladek, McGill Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics
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Published on: 6 Mar 2018
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