By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
鈥婦iscovery opens door to development of new drugs to control weight gain and obesity
It鈥檚 rare for scientists to get what they describe as 鈥渃lean鈥� results without spending a lot of time repeating the same experiment over and over again. But when researchers saw the mice they were working with doubling their weight within a month or two, they knew they were on to something.
Discovery offers hope for more effective treatments of deadly glioblastomas
A gene known as OSMR plays a key role in driving the growth of glioblastoma tumors, according to a new study led by a 香蕉视频 researcher and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The potential of light as a non-invasive, highly-focused alternative to pain medication was made more apparent thanks to research conducted by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of 香蕉视频 and the 香蕉视频 Health Centre.
By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom
Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain鈥檚 ability to process information with lightning speed, according to a new study.
By聽Julie Robert,
A research team, led by the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Brain uses 鈥渙lder鈥� systems/structures to preferentially process emotion expressed through vocalizations
Why is it that some people have richly detailed recollection of past experiences (episodic memory), while others tend to remember just the facts without details (semantic memory)?
A research team from the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences has shown for the first time that these different ways of experiencing the past are associated with distinct brain connectivity patterns that may be inherent to the individual and suggest a life-long 鈥渕emory trait鈥�. 聽
The study was recently published online in the journal Cortex.
If you鈥檙e pondering whether to buy a Galaxy smartphone or an iPhone this holiday season, a part of the brain called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (PFC) might ultimately determine your choice. Results of a new study by Avinash Vaidya and Dr. Lesley Fellows, researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), suggest that this region of the brain plays a critical role in making choices.
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 a breakthrough in understanding an important protein that appears to act as a kind of cellular 鈥渕arriage broker.鈥� The protein called Netrin1 brings cells together and maintains their healthy relationships. Netrin1 plays an essential role in the growth of the human organism, directing cell migration and the formation of cell circuits both at the embryo stage and after birth.
Researchers at McGill have clearly identified, for the first time, the specific parts of the brain involved in decisions that call for delayed gratification.
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.
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.
Insulin has long been known as the hormone which controls the body鈥檚 sugar levels: humans who lack or are insensitive to insulin develop diabetes. Although insulin is also made and released in the brain, its effects there have remained unclear.
