/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2675/all en /newsroom/channels/news/child-abuse-affects-brain-wiring-270024 <p><em>By Katherine Gombay</em></p> Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:11:42 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32232 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/keeping-our-balance-tale-two-systems-264108 <p>The transition from being sea creatures to living on land, even if it happened over 300 million years ago, seems to have left its traces on the way we keep our balance today.</p> <p>“It’s a discovery that is likely to be controversial,” says Kathy Cullen, the senior researcher on a paper on the subject that was published recently in <em><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13229">Nature Communications</a>.</em> She has been working on this problem for over a decade with her colleague Maurice Chacron who also teaches in McGill’s Department of Physiology.</p> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:04:22 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26383 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-path-discovery-parkinsons-disease-261519 <p><em><b>McGill Newsroom</b></em></p> <p><em>Neuron cell death may be caused by overactive immune system </em></p> <p>A team of scientists led by Dr. Michel Desjardins from the University of Montreal and Dr. Heidi McBride from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) at �㽶��Ƶ have discovered that two genes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) are key regulators of the immune system, providing direct evidence linking Parkinson's to autoimmune disease.</p> Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:27:43 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25999 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/brain-gives-more-secrets-259151 <p><em><b>By Julie Robert, <a href="https://muhc.ca/">�㽶��Ƶ Health Centre</a></b></em></p> <p>A research team, led by the Research Institute of the �㽶��Ƶ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.</p> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:03:15 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25323 at /newsroom /newsroom/edith-hamel Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22916 at /newsroom /newsroom/roderick-r-mcinnes Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 24036 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/scientists-identify-key-gene-associated-addiction-254372 <p>A new study published in the journal <em>Molecular Psychiatry</em> by a team led by Salah El Mestikawy, Ph.D., researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’île-de-Montréal), professor at �㽶��Ƶ and head of research at CNRS INSERM UPMC in Paris, opens the field to new understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying addiction in humans. Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:16:24 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 24381 at /newsroom