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Times of India, Indian Express - Parent's education could be linked to depression in kids as adults
Friday, January 27, 2012The socio-economic status of parents could have an effect on their children’s mental health issues as grown-ups, latest research has suggested.
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Yahoo! News - Early autism sign: Babies' brain responses to eye contact
Friday, January 27, 2012The way that babies as young as six months look at the eyes of other people may be an early sign of autism, a new study suggests.
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La Presse - Acheter rose ou pas ?
Friday, January 27, 2012Le ruban rose est mis à mal dans le film L'industrie du ruban rose de Léa Pool, tourné en grande partie aux États-Unis.
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Le Devoir - Le mythe du Stradivarius
Friday, January 27, 2012Hier après-midi, la salle de rédaction du Devoir résonnait des riches et touchantes sonorités du violoncelle Stradivarius dont jouera désormais le Québécois Stéphane Tétreault.
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Le Devoir - Le mythe du Stradivarius
Friday, January 27, 2012Hier après-midi, la salle de rédaction du Devoir résonnait des riches et touchantes sonorités du violoncelle Stradivarius dont jouera désormais le Québécois Stéphane Tétreault.
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Scientific American - Scientists manipulate and erase memories
Thursday, January 26, 2012[Following a violent robbery, Joël] Coutu’s ordeal was just beginning. For years he would be tormented by violent nightmares, panic attacks brought on by the mere hint of aggression around him, and severe depression—signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Canadian Architect - Jason Tsironis wins the Canada Council for the Arts' Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners
Thursday, January 26, 2012McGill University School of Architecture graduate Jason Tsironis has been named the 2012 winner of the Canada Council for the Arts' Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.
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Globe and Mail - Bank of Canada urged to take 'clear leadership role' in regulatory oversight
Wednesday, January 25, 2012The Bank of Canada should play a “clear leadership role” in efforts to safeguard the country’s financial system, but the final say over how regulators should address risks, such as record household debt, must be left with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, according to a report.
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Montreal Gazette - McGill alum Babcock pays a visit to Montreal
Wednesday, January 25, 2012The thirst for knowledge is in [Mike] Babcock’s DNA, a driving force in his life since even before he captained the McGill Redmen in the mid-1980s. He wore his McGill tie Tuesday night at a Montreal cocktail reception of the university’s alumni association, at which he spoke, and he’ll wear one behind the bench against the Canadiens.
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Globe and Mail - How the board can build the brand
Wednesday, January 25, 2012Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail, speaks to Northwestern University's Ed Zajac.
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Vancouver Sun - Eclipse of prairie grain elevator fascinates Montreal technology researcher
Wednesday, January 25, 2012Grain elevators abandoned in various stages of disrepair are a familiar site on the prairie skyline. While attempts have been made to save some of the landmarks, the majority have been demolished, replaced by centralized grain terminals.
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La Presse - Personnalités de l'avenir : Alexandre Allard et Danny Luong : S'attaquer au polystyrène une bactérie à la fois
Wednesday, January 25, 2012C'était en septembre 2010, à Stockholm. Devant une salle bondée, deux cégépiens de Québec ont reçu des mains de la princesse Victoria de Suède le premier prix du Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
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Best Health Magazine - How to control migraines
Wednesday, January 25, 2012Millions of Canadians suffer from migraines—but there is relief. Here's what you need to know about this painful condition and how to keep it under control.
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Yahoo - TD Canada Trust donates $2,000,000 to MUHC/CHUM joint corporate campaign
Wednesday, January 25, 2012The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation, the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation and the Fondation du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) announced today that TD Canada Trust is donating $2 million to the Joint Corporate Campaign. The funds will be used to support the redevelopment projects of the two academic healthcare institutions.
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Montreal Gazette - Antioxidants are good; free radicals are bad, right?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012There is one thing we know for sure about antioxidants. They sell products. Unfortunately that is just about the only thing we know for sure about this fascinating class of chemicals.
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CNET, Daily Mail, Toronto Sun - Saliva-based HIV test almost as accurate as blood test
Tuesday, January 24, 2012New findings that a saliva-based HIV test is only 2 percent less accurate than blood tests could make a case for more widespread self-testing around the world.
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The Scientist - Antimicrobial cross-resistance risk
Tuesday, January 24, 2012Bacteria that evolve resistance to antimicrobial therapies may be able to evade natural immune peptides. However, bacteria can evolve resistance to AMPs under strong selective pressure in vitro.
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Chronicle Journal - 3D 'keyhole' surgery could be wave of future
Tuesday, January 24, 2012Several surgeons in Canada have test-run a prototype 3D system for laparoscopic surgeries, one form of the minimally invasive operations performed with a camera-tipped scope and instruments fed through tiny incisions in the body.
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Psychology Today - Many ages at once
Tuesday, January 24, 2012What is normal development for a gifted child? … "Giftedness is 'asynchronous development' in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm.
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Stanford Daily, Mercury News, Wall Street Journal - Stanford study shows women report more intense pain than men
Tuesday, January 24, 2012The long-held notion that women have a higher tolerance for pain than men do has been upended by a Stanford University study released on Monday, January 23rd 2012.
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“The drugs we plan to develop through this research will combat growing resistance to existing therapies, an important next step in the treatment and control of parasitic disease.'"Tim Geary, director, Institute of Parasitology at McGill for CBC
"Our discovery not only opens the door to further unlock the secrets of the Earth's beginnings, geologists now have a new playground to explore how and when life began, what the atmosphere may have looked like, and when the first continent formed."PhD student Jonathan O'Neil on the discovery of the earth's oldest rocks
"We all know what happens when kids aren't getting enough sleep - they're cranky and it's impossible to get them to pay attention. A lot more education is needed to make people, especially parents, aware of the key role of sleep, not only in rest but in memory, learning, attention and mood."Clinical child psychologist and sleep researcher Reut Gruber in the Montreal Gazette
"We shouldn't walk around worried that everything we do will affect our grandchildren. It will, but we can't do anything about it except to do the things we were taught to do through evolution or social evolution."McGill pharmacology professor and epigenetics researcher Moshe Szyf, speaking with the Ottawa Citizen
"...most people in Western society use music to regulate moods, whether it's playing something peppy in the morning or something soothing at the end of a hard day, or something that will motivate them to exercise. Joni Mitchell told me that someone once said before there was Prozac, there was her."McGill psychology professor and former rock producer Daniel Levitin, speaking in Wired magazine
"It's been sort of a ho-hum issue -- it was like,'So what if women have less sexual desire after the age of 50.' I think we're more reluctant for some unknown reason to accept drug treatment for sexual dysfunctions in women."Barbara Sherwin, professor of psychology and of obstetrics and gynecology
