/newsroom/taxonomy/term/13888/all en /newsroom/channels/news/new-insights-could-help-prevent-psychosis-relapses-youth-and-young-adults-359497 <p>New findings from �㽶��Ƶ researchers could help clinicians understand the course of delusions in youth and young adults that signal the need for a timely intervention to prevent a full relapse of psychosis.</p> <p>Delusions — strong beliefs that don't align with commonly accepted reality— are a defining symptom of psychosis but are not sufficiently understood.</p> Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:40:18 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314614 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/treatment-anorexia-nervosa-357901 <p>A �㽶��Ƶ-led research team working in collaboration with a French team (CNRS, INSERM and Sorbonne university) believes it has identified both the neurological mechanism underlying anorexia nervosa as well as a possible cure.</p> Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:19:45 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 311140 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/unlocking-impact-early-life-adversity-brain-function-352864 <p>Do adults with a history of childhood trauma have altered brain responses to psychological challenges? Previous studies indicated that this can occur in laboratory animals, but it has been unclear whether it occurs in humans.</p> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:24:49 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 307481 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-neurobiology-impulsivity-342047 <p>While not all impulsive behaviour speaks of mental illness, a wide range of mental health disorders which often emerge in adolescence, including depression and substance abuse, have been linked to impulsivity. So, finding a way to identify and treat those who may be particularly vulnerable to impulsivity early in life is especially important.</p> Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:30:55 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 288366 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-black-history-month-february-2022-337133 <p>Every February, people in Canada are invited to participate in Black History Month festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. The theme for Black History Month 2022 is <b>February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day</b>. (<a href="https://www.canada.ca/fr/patrimoine-canadien/campagnes/mois-histoire-des-noirs.html" target="_blank">Canadian Heritage</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from �㽶��Ƶ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:21:58 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 285092 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-mental-illness-335396 <p>The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at �㽶��Ƶ, there is evidence that a wide range of early onset psychiatric problems (from depression, anxiety and addictions to dyslexia, bulimia, and ADHD) may be largely due to the combination of just three factors. The first is biological—in the form of individual variability in the brain’s dopamine reward pathway. The second is social—and points to the important role of early childhood neglect or abuse.</p> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:34:50 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 283704 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-2021-holiday-season-335428 <p>The McGill Media Relations Office suggests the following sources for your holiday stories:</p> <p><a href="#exercise">Exercise and staying active</a> | <a href="#giving">Giving back</a> | <a href="#mental_health">Mental health</a> |  <a href="#newyear">New Year's resolutions and goals</a><b> | </b><a href="#safety">Safer holidays</a><b> |</b><a href="#christmastree">Sustainable tree shopping</a><b> | </b><a href="#travel">Traveling during the Holidays</a> |</p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:14:15 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 283709 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-back-online-after-global-outage-333966 <p>Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were up and running again late Monday after being hit by an outage that affected users around the world. The social media giant said the disruption to network traffic "had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt." It said there is no evidence that user data was comprised. It was the largest such outage ever tracked by the web monitoring group Downdetector, which collates complaints about web outages.</p> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:04:59 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 278398 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-fda-approves-much-debated-alzheimers-drug-panned-experts-331414 <p>U.S. government health officials approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn't been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it granted approval to the drug from Biogen based on results that seemed “reasonably likely” to benefit Alzheimer's patients. (<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/fda-approves-much-debated-alzheimer-s-drug-panned-by-experts-1.5459470" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:48:35 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 269362 at /newsroom /newsroom/simon-ducharme Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:47:04 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 271817 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/measuring-creativity-one-word-time-332050 <p>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 �㽶��Ƶ, 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.</p> Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:30:00 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 270373 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/stopmtlca-first-interactive-map-self-report-police-stops-montreal-331945 <p>In 2019, an <a href="https://spvm.qc.ca/fr/Communiques/Details/14555">independent report</a> commissioned by the City of Montreal demonstrated racial and social profiling by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (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.</p> Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:36:45 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 269926 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-pride-month-june-2021-331401 <p>June is Pride Month in Canada. It is a time when we celebrate diversity and LGBTQ+ communities, acknowledge their history, the hardships they have endured, and the progress that has been made. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/community/celebrating-pride-month-2021-1.6041475" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from �㽶��Ƶ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:25:05 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 269333 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-concordia-uottawa-research-team-finds-correlation-between-covid-19-based-discrimination-and-331009 <p>Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from �㽶��Ƶ, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.</p> <p>The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.</p> Wed, 12 May 2021 14:12:55 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 264951 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-ex-cop-guilty-murder-and-manslaughter-death-george-floyd-330575 <p>A former Minneapolis police officer was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. (<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/ex-cop-derek-chauvin-guilty-of-murder-and-manslaughter-in-death-of-george-floyd-1.5394195" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from �㽶��Ƶ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:24:57 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 260936 at /newsroom