/channels/taxonomy/term/23158/all en /channels/channels/news/making-ai-partner-neuroscientific-discovery-355328 <h4><strong>New paper argues that Large Language Models can reveal breakthroughs humans alone cannot</strong></h4> Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:55:25 +0000 webfull 197653 at /channels /channels/channels/news/largest-ever-psychedelics-study-maps-changes-conscious-awareness-neurotransmitter-systems-338389 <h4><b>Applying machine learning to a database of testimonials uncovers how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are mechanistically rooted in the human brain</b></h4> <p>Psychedelics are now a rapidly growing area of neuroscience and clinical research, one that may produce much-needed new therapies for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Yet there is still a lot to know about how these drug agents alter states of consciousness.</p> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:22:46 +0000 webfull 178714 at /channels /channels/channels/news/uncovering-relationship-between-lifestyle-personality-and-brain-structure-332435 <p>Danilo Bzdok, a researcher at The Neuro, McGill’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, uses machine learning to identify patterns in human neurological and psychological data. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02206-x">One of his team’s recent studies</a> analyzed personality profiles, demographic status and social lifestyle from a cohort of 40,000 <a href="https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/">UK Biobank</a> middle aged participants. Their research focused on how these factors are related to each other and to brain structure.</p> Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:00:09 +0000 webfull 172272 at /channels /channels/channels/news/scientists-show-what-loneliness-looks-brain-325504 <p><strong>Neural “signature” may reflect how we respond to feelings of social isolation</strong></p> <p>This holiday season will be a lonely one for many people as social distancing due to COVID-19 continues, and it is important to understand how isolation affects our health. A new study shows a sort of signature in the brains of lonely people that make them distinct in fundamental ways, based on variations in the volume of different brain regions as well as based on how those regions communicate with one another across brain networks.</p> Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:01:24 +0000 webfull 166216 at /channels /channels/channels/news/researchers-awarded-27m-study-loneliness-and-alzheimers-325223 <p><strong>Work will tell us how loneliness interacts with brain structure and function in normal aging and pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease</strong></p> <p>Two researchers from The Neuro, with collaborators from the StoP-AD Centre at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, will lead a research program centered on an emerging field of neuroscience thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Aging (NIH/NIA) in the USA.</p> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:25:39 +0000 webfull 164116 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ctv-news-loneliness-can-directly-impair-immune-system-increase-risk-death-study-322840 <p>The findings, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences earlier in June, show how social isolation can negatively affect the health of the brain as well as the immune system.“Social isolation, or a lack of social opportunity, gives rise to a sense of loneliness. Directly or indirectly, this feeling has many wide-ranging consequences for our psychological well-being as well as our physical health, even our longevity,” the study states.</p> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:42:47 +0000 webfull 161441 at /channels /channels/channels/news/neurobiology-social-distance-322652 <p>Never before have we experienced social isolation on a massive scale as we have during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. A new paper published in the journal <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.016"><em>Trends in Cognitive Sciences</em></a> explores the wide-ranging, negative consequences that social isolation has on our psychological well-being and physical health, including decreased life span.</p> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:07:39 +0000 webfull 161224 at /channels