/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3535/all en /newsroom/channels/news/study-challenges-attitudes-about-young-people-and-pandemic-preventative-measures-plus-other-stories-340677 <p><img alt=" Getty Images" src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/covid-measures.jpg" style="width:100%" /></p> Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:59:55 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288287 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/using-ai-predict-suicidal-behaviours-students-332119 <p>How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France, self-esteem represents an important predictive marker of suicidal risk. The team from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, University of Montreal, Inserm, and Université de Bordeaux is using artificial intelligence to identify factors that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.</p> Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:23:08 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 271027 at /newsroom /newsroom/article/around-campus/nsercs-science-action-contest-open-voting <p>Public Voting is now open for <a href="http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ScienceAction/index_eng.asp">NSERC's Science, Action!</a><span> contest, and seven McGill students are in the running.</span></p> <p>From February 6 to March 2, watch and share your favourite videos. Show your family and friends how science and engineering is improving their lives.<br /> The 25 videos with the most views on March 2 will proceed to NSERCs judges’ panel, where they will compete for one of 15 cash prizes.</p> <p>Vote for your favourite now!</p> Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:07:56 +0000 Newsroom 32939 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/imagining-cities-future-through-better-understanding-montreal-today-282750 <p>Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?</p> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:45:15 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32678 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mindfulness-training-shows-promise-maintaining-weight-loss-283028 <p>Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?  Ï㽶ÊÓƵ researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.</p> <p>Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.</p> <p>The researchers found that:</p> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:29:28 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32695 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/pregnancy-related-conditions-taken-together-leave-moms-and-dads-risk-282694 <p>Research has already shown that women who develop either diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease years later. Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had both diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy. The study, published today in the <em>American Journal of Epidemiology</em>, doesn’t end with the mother’s risks.</p> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:51:30 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32666 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/statistical-tool-reveals-climate-change-impacts-plants-282453 <p>Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants’ timing is shifting in response to warming temperatures?</p> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:08:05 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32639 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-mechanism-detected-alzheimers-disease-276135 <p><em>By Chris Chipello</em></p> <p>Ï㽶ÊÓƵ researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.</p> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:02:42 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32382 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/predicting-when-sound-will-occur-relies-brains-motor-system-272966 <p><em>By Shawn Hayward</em></p> <p>Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.</p> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:02:36 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32365 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ri-muhc-scientist-takes-hiv-self-testing-global-hivsmarttm-270627 <p><em>By Julie Robert</em></p> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:50:59 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32342 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/john-dobson-foundation-makes-its-largest-donation-mcgill-support-x-1-entrepreneurs-269005 <p>The John Dobson Foundation has announced a donation of $2 million dollars – its largest gift to McGill yet – to fund the McGill X-1 Accelerator program run by the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship. The donation will support the program now in its third year, as it grows to support entrepreneurs across Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.</p> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:14:09 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32073 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/detecting-long-term-concussion-athletes-268931 <p>Lawyers representing both sides in concussion lawsuits against sports leagues may eventually have a new tool at their disposal: a diagnostic signature that uses artificial intelligence to detect brain trauma years after it has occurred. </p> Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:43:39 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32066 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/teaching-practices-could-play-important-role-preventing-bullying-268236 <p>Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That’s one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by Ï㽶ÊÓƵ researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019711630135X"><em>Journal of Adolescence.</em></a> But it’s only part of the story.</p> Fri, 19 May 2017 18:51:39 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 29798 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/olfactory-perception-influenced-background-and-semantic-information-264301 <p>When two people smell the same thing, they can have remarkably different reactions, depending on their cultural background. Researchers at the Neuro have found that even when two cultures share the same language and many traditions, their reactions to the same smells can be different.</p> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:23:21 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26422 at /newsroom