/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2555/all en /newsroom/channels/news/tele-quebec-la-stimulation-magnetique-renforce-la-memoire-284654 <p><strong>Sylvain Baillet</strong>, chercheur à l'Institut neurologique de Montréal, étudie la mémoire de travail auditive, cette mémoire qui nous permet de retenir les derniers sons entendus pendant quelques secondes - une faculté importante qui nous permet entre autres de suivre une conversation. Il a noté que la stimulation magnétique a amélioré cette forme de mémoire chez ses sujets.</p> <p><a href="http://electronslibres.telequebec.tv/episodes/37220">Electrons libres</a><br /> </p> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:55:45 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32949 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/transformative-donation-16-million-establishes-new-autism-research-centre-montreal-neurological-280172 <p>A new research centre in Montreal will help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and lead to the development of better diagnostic tools and more effective therapies for people with autism.</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:49:47 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32613 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/lack-joy-music-linked-brain-disconnection-264912 <div>Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.</div> <div> </div> <div>Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of �㽶��Ƶ have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.</div> <div> </div> Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:38:40 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26524 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/kalgene-gears-manufacture-and-test-promising-alzheimers-treatment-nrc-mcgill-and-cimtec-263196 <div> <div> <div> <p>KalGene Pharmaceuticals and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are proud to announce the signature of an agreement worth over $1M to develop, scale up, and transfer the technology needed to manufacture a promising novel Alzheimer’s treatment in Canada that the parties have been co- developing since 2015.</p> <p>The treatment, a biologic molecule made up of a peptide that fights Alzheimer’s and an antibody-based carrier molecule designed to shuttle the peptide into the brain, is a custom- engineered therapeutic developed at NRC.</p></div></div></div> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:20:08 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26232 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/researchers-find-new-role-cannabinoids-vision-262364 <p><strong><em>McGill Newsroom</em></strong></p> <p><em>Chemicals found to improve low-light vision of tadpoles by sensitizing retinal cells</em></p> <p>A multidisciplinary team including researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute has improved our understanding of how cannabinoids, the active agent in marijuana, affect vision in vertebrates.</p> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:38:22 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 26104 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/big-data-study-discovers-earliest-sign-alzheimers-261667 <p><a href="/newsroom"><em><strong>McGill Newsroom</strong></em></a></p> <p><em>Research underlines importance of computational power in future neurological breakthrough</em></p> <p>Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have used a powerful tool to better understand the progression of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD), identifying its first physiological signs.</p> Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:12:54 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 26007 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/4-million-research-intellectual-disabilities-261428 <p><a href="/newsroom"><strong><em>McGill Newsroom</em></strong></a></p> <p><em>Couche-Tard founder gives $4 million to McGill for groundbreaking research on intellectual disabilities</em></p> Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:35:09 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25995 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/decoding-connectivity-261386 <p><a href="/newsroom"><strong><em>McGill Newsroom</em></strong></a></p> <p><em>It’s all math: How Professor Alan Evans is using cutting-edge statistics to unravel the complexity of brain disorders.</em></p> <p>When Alan Evans was starting out in the 1970s, researchers didn’t ask the boss to foot their bar tab. But that’s exactly what some of the coders in his Montreal Neurological Institute lab recently proposed: a 9-to-5 Saturday hackathon, held in an Irish pub a few blocks from the �㽶��Ƶ campus.</p> Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:25:56 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25963 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/podcast-pedro-valdes-sosa-261116 <p><strong><em>By the Media Relations Office, <a href="/newsroom">McGill Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>Spotlight on neurosciences </em></p> <p>Neuroinformatics stands at the intersection of neuroscience and information science. One of the world leaders in this discipline is Prof. Pedro Valdes-Sosa, General Vice-Director for Research of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO) which he co-founded in 1990.</p> Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:49:13 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25933 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/data-sharing-access-all-areas-260828 <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRualxsY_0s"><img src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/dr_guy_rouleau.jpg" style="height:382px; width:715px" /></a></p> <p>The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (the Neuro) in Canada to conduct a radical experiment in open science.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602_supp/full/533S71a.html">Nature</a></p> <p> </p> Thu, 12 May 2016 14:53:09 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25823 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/brighter-prospects-chronic-pain-260515 <p><span>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 �㽶��Ƶ and the �㽶��Ƶ Health Centre.</span></p> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:57 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 25747 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/want-rewire-neuron-youve-got-take-it-slow-258183 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, </strong></em><em><strong><a href="/newsroom/">McGill Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>New technique offers potential to reconnect neurons of people with central nervous system damage</em></p> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:02:11 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 25175 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/first-language-wires-brain-later-language-learning-257068 <p>Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:35:58 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 24955 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-hope-treatment-multiple-sclerosis-256331 <p>A new study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of �㽶��Ƶ and the MUHC, gets closer to identifying the mechanisms responsible for multiple sclerosis and makes headway in the search for better treatments. Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:26:38 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24570 at /newsroom