$10.6M grant supports innovative autism project
McGill Translational Platform in Autism Research will help uncover the disorders’ neural foundations
A new project at The Neuro, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded $10.6M in financial support as part of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund.
Congrats to Dominique Louer, SCSD PhD candidate, who has been selected for the 2024 McGill 3MT | MT180 Competition Final!
After weeks of competition and feedback, 15 finalists are ready! Who can best present their leading-edge research to a live audience in just 3 minutes and a single slide? Come to the final and cheer on Dominique!!!
The 2024 Scaringi Lecture Series in Speech Language Pathology: Workshop
Clinical Workshop April 4, 2024, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Room TBA
Using Narratives to Enhance Speech, Language and Communication in Students with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN): the magic of storytelling.
The 2024 Scaringi Lecture Series in Speech Language Pathology
McGill’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders is proud to be hosting a research talk on enhancing the language of adolescents with DLD and a workshop on using narratives in clinical assessment and intervention.
These events are funded by the Scaringi Lecture Series grant. This year the events are also co-sponsored by the FRQSC group on Cognitive plasticity and language acquisition.
The 2024 Dr. Donald G. Doehring Memorial Lecture
McGill’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders is proud to announce: The 2024 Dr. Donald G. Doehring Memorial Lecture March 11, 4:30 to 6 pm Leacock 232 855 Sherbrooke St. W. Dr. Sheila Blumstein Brown University
Making AI a partner in neuroscientific discovery
New paper argues that Large Language Models can reveal breakthroughs humans alone cannotThe past year has seen major advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. The ability of these models to interpret and produce human text sources (and other sequence data) has implications for people in many areas of human activity.
February 4 | Planned electrical shutdown at Islamic Studies Library, Marvin Duchow Music Library, and Schulich Library
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A neurological disease paradigm shift
Researchers propose a new model for classifying Parkinson’s
One of the things that makes developing effective treatments for Parkinson’s disease so challenging is its complexity. While some forms are caused by genetics, others have environmental factors, and patients can show a wide range of symptoms of varying severity. Diagnosis of Parkinson’s is also currently made very late, after the disease may have been in the brain for a decade or more.
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Open Science momentum grows stronger in Canada with a new commitment by its largest mental health teaching hospital
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) joins the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute alliance in a partnership to open research practicesThe Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital in the country is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI) at McGill University’s
Drs. Sapha Barkati and Marina Klein receive the 2023 FMSQ prize for best research paper
Drs. Marina Klein and Sapha Barkati received the 2023 FMSQ prize for their research publication in The New England Journal of Medicine titled: "Monkeypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries—April–June 2022".
McGill researchers among world’s most cited: Clarivate
Annual list includes 16 researchers among the world’s most cited, Canada retains 6th place overall in global ranking
The McGill Reporter has profiled the Body Donor Program.
McGill’s Body Donor Program plays crucial role in health sciences education
Overall, donors have an impact on the education of more than a thousand students every year.
McGill Cares: Join us to celebrate our 100th episode
McGill Cares was launched by the Dementia Education Program during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, on May 13, 2020, while many of us were isolating at home. Claire Webster, Founder of the Program, had the idea to record short interviews with different experts on topics of interest to care partners of people living with neurocognitive disorders to help educate and support them during this difficult time.