Using patients’ own cells to accelerate research into neurological disease

Published: 31 March 2015

$1 M gift from Mr. J. Sebastian van Berkom launches translational research into neurological disease ...

Noisy brain signals: How the schizophrenic brain misinterprets the world

Published: 2 April 2014

People with schizophrenia often misinterpret what they see and experience in the world. New research provides insight into the brain mechanisms that might be responsible for this misinterpretation.

Addiction: abnormal communication in the brain

Published: 5 February 2013

January 29, 2013 - Addiction to cigarettes, drugs and other stimulants has been linked in the past to the brain’s frontal lobes, but now there is scientific evidence that indicates where in the...

April - Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month

Published: 2 April 2015

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, is at the forefront of Parkinson’s research and clinical care. Parkinson’s...

Unleashing the watchdog protein

Published: 9 May 2013

Research opens door to new drug therapies for Parkinson’s disease

Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease

Published: 28 November 2016

Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells. 

International study yields important clues to the genetics of epilepsy

Published: 16 June 2014

An international team of researchers has discovered a significant genetic component of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (IGE), the most common form of epilepsy. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder...

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