Montreal, Quebec (October 22,聽2015)聽鈥� Last night the inaugural A Brilliant Night - a gala fundraiser to benefit The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro- at 香蕉视频 and the MUHC, raised more than $604,000 for brain tumour research.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2015
Join us for the first edition of A Brilliant Night at the spectacular new Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium in Montreal for a unique event on October 21st to support the latest in brain tumor research at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 鈥� The Neuro, at 香蕉视频 and the 香蕉视频 Health Centre.
A BRILLIANT CAUSE
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Published on: 13 Oct 2015
A new study at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at 香蕉视频 and the MUHC, might finally provide a new direction for research seeking to help patients suffering from neuropathic pain.
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Published on: 9 Oct 2015
Montreal Neurological Institute scientists shed light on the mechanism that could be driving the spread of Parkinson鈥檚 along neuronal highways
Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at 香蕉视频 and the 香蕉视频 Health Centre, have made advances in understanding the process involved in the progression and spread of Parkinson鈥檚 disease (PD) within the brain.聽
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Published on: 22 Sep 2015
Dr. Alan Evans, James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering at the Montreal Neurological Institute, 香蕉视频 has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). He is one fourteen new RSC Fellows from 香蕉视频, including McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier. The induction ceremony will take place on Friday, November 27 in Victoria, B.C.
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Published on: 10 Sep 2015
Discovery provides new tool for understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases
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Published on: 12 Aug 2015
Researchers get inaugural Foundation grants for high-impact, long-term programs
Researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 香蕉视频 have been awarded over $15 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The grants are part of over $600 million in national funding, announced July 28 by Minister of Health Rona Ambrose.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2015
Study fuels nature versus nurture debate
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain鈥檚 capacity to learn suggests there鈥檚 more to it than the adage that 鈥減ractise makes perfect.鈥� A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at 香蕉视频 and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2015
We are glad to announce that the聽Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation is now providing generous support to the BIC PET and Cyclotron Unit, through a grant obtained by long-time BIC user and affiliated member Dr. Petra Schweinhardt, Assistant Professor at McGill's. This grant goes towards supporting the highly-qualified personnel of our Cyclotron/PET Unit.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2015
BIC Prof. Alexey Kostikov offers course on PET radiochemistry in the fall of 2015
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Published on: 23 Jul 2015
BIC Principal investigator Dr. Alain Dagher receives $2.1M in Foundation grant from CIHR to study the brain's dopamine systems with brain imaging.
Functional Neuroimaging of dopamine systems: application to Parkinson's Disease, addiction and obesity.
The main goal is to understand the function of brain systems involved in reward, motivation, learning and decision-making.聽
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Published on: 16 Jul 2015
The Museum of Natural Sciences of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has just opened a new permanent exhibition in Brussels: ''. The Museum has asked Dr. D. Louis Collins whether they could produce a 3-D print of the historical Colin27 brain. This brain is that of a human volunteer scanned 27 times in an MRI, back in 1998.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2015
Diurnal fluctuations in brain volume
The brain shrinks over the course of the day, ending up smaller in the evening 鈥� before returning to its full size the next morning. That鈥檚 according to a new study from BIC Principal Investigators Arnold and Collins and collaborators, based on an analysis of about 10,000 MRI scans.
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Published on: 9 Jul 2015
Professors Sylvain Baillet (BIC Principal investigator) and Matt Kinsella (Dept of Bioengineering) have won the first Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Research Project competition held by McGill鈥檚 Department of Biomedical Engineering, for their project titled:
Millisecond in vivo imaging of nanoparticle circulation and uptake in brain cancer therapy.聽
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Published on: 9 Jul 2015
Time is brain: for every minute a stroke is left untreated, 2 million brain cells are destroyed. The sooner patients are treated, the higher the chances of survival with fewer disabilities.聽 Patients with acute strokes and transient ischemic attack (TIA) are assessed and treated at the right place, the right time and by the right professionals thanks to ultra-specialized stroke centres at the Montreal General Hospital聽 and The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital.
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Published on: 22 Jun 2015
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