/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2679/all en /newsroom/blake-richards Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:06:12 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 307663 at /newsroom /newsroom/patricia-pelufo-silveira Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:28:57 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 307654 at /newsroom /newsroom/alanna-watt Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:27:52 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288249 at /newsroom /newsroom/mathieu-roy Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:42:26 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197039 at /newsroom /newsroom/tomoko-ohyama Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:47:13 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196454 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cognitive-aging-research-agreeing-key-terms-definitions-290532 <p>Interpreting age-related changes and differences in brain structure, activation and functional connectivity is an ongoing challenge. Ambiguous terminology is a major source of this challenge. For example, the terms “compensation”, “maintenance”, and “reserve” are used in different ways by researchers. Most of the time, they disagree about the kind of evidence or patterns of results required to interpret findings related to these concepts.</p> <p> </p> Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:06:59 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 88187 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cnn-children-playing-guitar-heal-285386 <p>Scientific research supports theories that music is healing. "The studies show that music can create profound neurochemical and biological changes, tangible, demonstrable ones," said psychologist Daniel Levitin, a professor emeritus at �㽶��Ƶ in Montreal, who specializes in neuroscience and music.<br /> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/turpin-children-music-therapy/index.html">CNN</a></p> Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:05:15 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 33014 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ctv-neuroscience-funding-provide-common-platform-canadian-researchers-285214 <p>Ottawa has announced a new fund to connect all Canadian brain scientists. Fifteen universities across the country doing research into the hundreds of different types of brain diseases and disorders will join the $10 million platform. The Brain Canada Foundation said the federal funding will allow the creation of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, which will be based at Montreal's Neurological Hospital. [...] Dr.</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:15:10 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32987 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/mcgill-university-announces-transformative-20-million-donation-montreal-neurological-institute-and-264838 <p> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:51:24 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 26508 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/canada-foundation-innovation-provides-11m-cbrain-computing-platform-mcgill-262748 <div>�㽶��Ƶ will receive more than $1.1 million for CBRAIN, one of the world’s most advanced computing platforms for brain research, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.</div> <div> </div> <div>Marc Miller, Member of Parliament for Ville-Marie — Le Sud-ouest — Île-des-sœurs, made the announcement at McGill on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, the Minister of Science.</div> <div> </div> Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:08:52 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26181 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/dont-scan-so-close-me-262057 <p><span>What does the 1960s Beatles hit “Girl” have in common with Astor Piazzolla’s evocative tango composition “Libertango”?</span></p> <p><span>Probably not much, to the casual listener. But in the mind of one famously eclectic singer-songwriter, the two songs are highly similar. That’s one of the surprising findings of an unusual neuroscience study based on brain scans of the musician <strong>Sting</strong>.</span></p> Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:35:34 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26076 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/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/creation-neuroscience-research-hub-261322 <p><a href="/newsroom"><strong><em>McGill Newsroom</em></strong></a></p> <p><em>EMC working with McGill to support data storage and visualization technologies to help with the NeuroHub project</em></p> <p>The Canadian research team that helped spearhead the international brain-mapping project known as BigBrain is about to get a major boost in its effort to produce sharply higher-resolution brain maps, thanks to technology from EMC Corporation.</p> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:01:25 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25961 at /newsroom