Danilo Bzdok, a researcher at The Neuro, McGill鈥檚 Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, uses machine learning to identify patterns in human neurological and psychological data.聽聽analyzed personality profiles, demographic status and social lifestyle from a cohort of 40,000聽聽middle aged participants. Their research focused on how these factors are related to each other and to brain structure.
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Published on: 17 Aug 2021
In a recent study in , researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at 香蕉视频, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.
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Published on: 17 Aug 2021
Over 260,000 kilometres of river could potentially be severed by planned hydroelectric developments according to 香蕉视频 researchers. The Amazon, the Congo, and the Irrawaddy are just a few of the rivers at risk of losing their free-flowing status if the proposed construction of new hydropower dams takes place.
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Published on: 12 Aug 2021
McGill鈥檚 researchers will soon acquire the highly specialized tools they need to innovate in their fields thanks to funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)鈥檚 John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). The Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, made the announcement today of $77 million across 50 institutions in Canada聽through the program. In total, twenty-one McGill research projects have received a combined $3.9 million in federal grants through three rounds of JELF.
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Published on: 11 Aug 2021
Researchers from 香蕉视频 believe that they have found a way to improve the development of biomaterials that could be instrumental in drug delivery, tissue regeneration, nano-optics and nanoelectronics.
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Published on: 9 Aug 2021
Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks
A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently.
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Published on: 9 Aug 2021
How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people鈥檚 mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France, self-esteem represents an important predictive marker of suicidal risk. The team from 香蕉视频, University of Montreal, Inserm, and Universit茅 de Bordeaux is using artificial intelligence to identify factors that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2021
Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to an international team of researchers from 香蕉视频, Harvard University and the University of Melbourne, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them could serve as an objective measure of creativity.
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Published on: 20 Jul 2021
As the world slowly emerges from a pandemic that exposed the vulnerability of healthcare systems when overwhelmed with multifaceted management challenges, 香蕉视频 has launched a new Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (GCHM). A collaborative initiative between McGill鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the GCHM program is designed to train physicians and other healthcare professionals in the skills needed to make effective decisions and succeed in leadership roles.
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Published on: 15 Jul 2021
In 2019, an commissioned by the City of Montreal demonstrated racial and social profiling by the Service de police de la Ville de Montr茅al (SPVM) targeting Black, Arab and Indigenous peoples, and young adults in particular. According to the data, Indigenous and Black people are four to five times more likely to be stopped by police than non-racialized people.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2021
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have shown that a brain cell structure previously thought to be pathological in fact enhances cells鈥� ability to transmit information and correlates with better learning on certain tasks.
In a study published in Nature Communications, the team investigated swellings that occur in the axons of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In results that contradict established expectations, they found that axons with swellings did a better job of conducting electrical signals than those without.
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Published on: 8 Jul 2021
Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over 100 years ago is the Iambic-Trochaic Law: when every other sound is loud, we tend to hear groups of two sounds with an initial beat. When every other sound is long, we hear groups of two sounds with a final beat. But why does our rhythm perception work this way?
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Published on: 8 Jul 2021
The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from 香蕉视频 finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change.
鈥淲e discovered that murres have the lowest cooling efficiency ever reported in birds, which means they have an extremely poor ability to dissipate or lose heat,鈥� says lead author Emily Choy, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Natural Resource Sciences Department at 香蕉视频.
Published on: 7 Jul 2021
A new study 鈥淥ral health and oral health care of Canadians鈥� led by Prof. Paul Allison of 香蕉视频鈥檚 Faculty of Dentistry, has received $3.3 million of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support a collaboration with Statistics Canada鈥檚 existing Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) to gather data and address oral health-related knowledge gaps. The study is a partnership involving all ten Canadian dental schools across the country.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2021
"Necessity is the father of invention," but where is its mother? According to a new study published in , fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2021
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