2015


December 2015


A new treatment for brain tumours (Thierry Muanza)
17 December (Ici Radio Canada)

What is your memory style? (Signy Sheldon)
16 December (Health Canal.com)

Decisions! Decisions! Brain Study Shows There’s More Than Meets the Eye When Making Choices
14 December (Neuro News)

"Forgotten" first language can have a lasting effect on the brain
4 December (CTV News)

Micro-Map of Hippocampus Lends Big Hand to Brain Research
3 December (Neuro News)

A new hope in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
3 December (Med e-News)

An underused tool in the fight against dementia
1 December (Toronto Star)

5 Therapeutic Video Games that can help treat Parkinsons, Alzheimer and Depression
1 December (hitek.fr)

 


November 2015


Personality of the Week - Dr Andrea Leblanc 
29 November (La Presse)

Brain study seeks roots of suicide (Fabrice Jollant)
25 November (Nature)

Spinal Inhibitory Interneuron Populations Identified as Gatekeeps of Pain and Itch (Reza Sharif-Naeini)
23 November (Pain Research Forum)

Unprecedented support for ALS research in Quebec (Angela Genge)
20 November (Journal de Montréal)

Jeffrey Mogil on Melzack and Wall’s Gate Control Theory (50th Anniversary of most important scientific article in the field of pain)
19 November (McGill Reporter)

Sync Session Interview with Dr. Alain Dagher
18 November (syncproject.co)

Samuel David wins prestigious Barbara Turnbull Award
16 November (McGill Reporter)

Parkinson’s disease: A new tool for diagnosis
13 November (Med e-News)

“Life is long… don’t be afraid of change,” Dr. Brenda Milner tells new grads. (Milner receives honourary degree from University of Calgary)
12 November (McGill Reporter)

BRAMS keeps brains singing for 10 years
5 November (University of Montreal News)

Quicker relief for chronic pain sufferers (Luda Diatchenko)
2 November (McGill Giving)

Dr. Nahum Sonenberg honoured by CCRA for Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research
2 November (McGill Reporter)

 


October 2015


World Stroke Day: The MUHC’s new Comprehensive Stroke Treatment Programs
29 October (Neuro News)

New Hope for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
22 October (Neuro News)

More than $604,000 Raised for the Fight Against Brain Tumours
22 October (Neuro News)

Why are we thirsty (Charles Bourque)?
15 October (TVA Nouvelles)

REPOST OF INTEREST: Researchers pinpoint a brain area that influences electoral decisions
8 June (Neuro News)

Dying is the last thing anyone wants to do – so keep cool and carry on (Preserving the brain through cryonics - Michael Hendricks)
10 October (The Guardian)

How to think straight in the age of information overload (Daniel Levitin)
9 October (CNN)

Pain is in the brain (Philippe Séguéla)
9 October (Neuro News)

Advancing a social, cultural and ecosystemic view of global mental health (World Mental Health Day - Oct. 10)
7 October (McGill Reporter)

Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials (Jeffrey Mogil)
6 October (Nature)

 


September 2015


Medical cannabis in the treatment of chronic pain
30 September (Med e-News)

In Memoriam: Dr. Maurice Dongier, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry (1925-2015)
25  September (Med e-News)

New study maps the progression of Parkinson’s disease within the brain (Alain Dagher)
22 September (MNI News)

Alan Evans and Laurence Kirmayer honoured by Royal Society of Canada
11 September (Med e-News)

 


August 2015


How Does a Gymnast, or Even a Fitness Walker, Keep from Falling? (Kathleen Cullen)
29 August (Scientific American Blogs)

Inauguration of the Centre for translational research on Mood Disorders and Suicide
28 August (Med e-News)

Association between low vitamin D and MS (Brent Richards)
27 August (Med e-News)

Choosing to end it all (Fabrice Jollant)
27 August (Med e-News)

Here's How Music Influences Your Workout, According To Science (Daniel Levitin)
21 August (Huffington Post)

Towards a new understanding of Parkinson’s disease (Kalle Gehring & Jean-François Trempe)
13 August (Med e-News)

Breakthrough in "marriage-broker" protein (Timothy Kennedy)
12 August (MNI News)

Our elegant brain: motor learning in the fast lane (Kathleen Cullen)
5 August (Med e-News)

Scientists identify key gene associated with addiction (Salah El Mestikawy)
4 August (Med e-News)

Study sheds light on the causes of cerebral palsy (Maryam Oskoui)
3 August (Med e-News)

 


July 2015


McGill gets $91.5M in CIHR funding - 9 neuro-related research projects among the list of recipients
29 July (McGill Reporter)

Practice doesn’t always make perfect (depending on your brain)
28 July (Neuro News)

Speed-like stimulants prescribed for adult ADHD part of ‘psychiatric fad,’ risk being used for mental edge
23 July (The National Post)

Leadership of Proteomics facility changes
16 July (PDF)

Congratulations to four members of the MNI! (Catherine-Anne Miller, Alan Evans, Edith Hamel, and Aaron Demedeiros-Howe)
14 July (Med e-News)

A glimmer of hope for patients with leukodystrophies
8 July (MUHC News)

How insulin calms brain activity (Derek Bowie)
2 July (Med e-News)

 


June 2015


His and her pain circuitry in the spinal cord
30 June (McGill Reporter)

Hacked instruments help measure musician's brain activity
29 June (Wired)

Michel Tremblay named to Ordre National du Québec
25 June (Med e-News)

Specialized stroke centres improve patients’ outcomes
23 June (McGill Reporter)

$27M in NSERC funding for long-term research
22 June (McGill Reporter)

Brain research gets $6-million boost
16 June (McGill Reporter)

Sylvain Williams's work published in Neuron
11 June (Douglas News)

How your brain is telling you to vote (Lesley Fellows)
8 June (Neuro News)

Douglas study on cerebral astrocytes in depression and suicide (Naguib Mechawar)
2 June (Douglas News)

June - ALS Awareness Month
2 June (Med e-News)

 


May 2015


Over $100M in research infrastructure support to McGill
29 May (Med e-News)

Cutting-edge concussion research centre coming to McGill
29 May (The Gazette)

Focus on Brain: $10M for breakthrough technologies to address unmet needs in neurosciences
27 May (Med e-News)

Patterns of brain activity reorganize visual perception during eye movements (Christopher Pack)
27 May (Med e-News)

Cocaine addiction, craving and relapse (Moshe Szyf)
27 May (Med e-News)

Towards a better understanding of the mechanisms of depression (Naguib Mechawar)
21 May (Douglas Institute News)

Study sheds new light on the impact of video gaming on the brain (Véronique Bohbot)
20 May (Douglas Institute News)

McGill health sciences research stars honoured at Parliament Hill event
15 May (The Reporter)
The Douglas’s Scientific Director, Brigitte Kieffer, among four scientists honored on Parliament Hill for their work
15 May (Douglas News)

Memory and the hippocampus
13 May (Douglas News)

Quebec registry for users of medical cannabis (Mark Ware)
13 May (Med e-News)

Nahum Sonenberg elected to the National Academy of Sciences
7 May (Med e-News)

Rolando Del Maestro delivers John P. McGovern Award Lectureship for the American Osler Society
7 May (Med e-News)

Edward Fon inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
7 May (Med e_news)

May – Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month
7 May (Med e-News)

Child Prodigies and Autism: Is There a Genetic Link?
1 May (LiveScience)

 


April 2015


Texting a stranger during surgery reduces pain
29 April (Futurity)

Finding the body clock's molecular reset button
29 April (McGill Reporter)

How the blood-brain barrier is maintained
22 April (Med E-News)

Montreal discovery could impact the study of chronic pain conditions (Artur Kania)
22 April (Med E-News)

Drug that boosts nerve signals offers hope for multiple sclerosis (Jack Antel)
22 April (Nature)

Customizing Relief (Luda Diatchenko)
16 April (McGill Reporter)

How Music Works: why do some people get chills when they listen to their favourite music?
13 April (CBC Quirks & Quarks)

Stressful pregnancy can foretell anorexia in adolescence
13 April (La Presse)

Tango dancing could benefit Parkinson's disease patients
13 April (MNI News)

Montreal Scientists get one step closer to finding how to repair damaged nerve cells (Frédéric Charron)
2 April (Med e-News)

Providing support for adults with autism
2 April (Med e-News)

April - Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month
2 April (MNI News)

Providing support for adults with autism
1 April (Med e-News)

The brain of a depressed individual has a different morphology (Naguib Mechawar)
1 April (Le Journal de Québec)

 


March 2015


New test to diagnose concussion in children (Rajeet Singh)
31 March (Global News)

Rats see the pain other rats' faces (Jeffrey Mogil)
31 March (AAAS-Science)

Using patients’ own cells to accelerate research into neurological disease
31 March (MNI News)

Teens test their smarts in the Brain Bee
27 March (MNI News)

Purple Day March 26- A World Day for Epilepsy Awareness
26 March (MNI News)

McGill’s Brian Chen among winners of NIH’s Follow that Cell Challenge phase 1
20 March (Med e-News)

Canada and the UK join forces on dementia research
20 March (Med e-News)

New research brings clearer understanding of people found Not Criminally Responsible (Anne Crocker)
20 March (The Douglas News)

Finding a new test for concussions
17 March (MNI News)

Bravo gala celebrates research excellence (Brenda Milner)
16 March (McGill Reporter)

Brain development controlled by epigenetic factor
11 March (Med e-News)

Music as Medicine? (Robert Zatorre)
11 March (BetaBoston)

Confident?  Your voice gives you away in milliseconds (Xiaoming Jiang & Marc Pell) 
6 March (New Scientist)

Ubisoft to develop video game to help combat lazy-eye disorder (Robert Hess)
3 March (BBC News)

Neuroscience Dream Team to focus on brain, vision and brain trauma research
3 March (McGill Reporter)

 


February 2015


Breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells metastasize (Peter McPherson)
26 February (Neuro Channels)

Facial expression more important to conveying emotion in music than in speech (Caroline Palmer)
25 February (Med e-News)

Deconstructing mental illness through ultradian rhythms (Kai-Florian Storch)
23 February (Med e-News)

Students perform ‘brain’ surgery on Saturday February 21
19 February (Neuro Channels) 
22 February Video (Montreal Gazette)

New hope in the fight against pain (Gabriella Gobbi)
18 February (Med e-News)

An important scientific breakthrough by Michel Cayouette’s team in the fight against blindness
18 February (Med e-News)

Revolutionary new probe zooms in on cancer cells (Kevin Petrecca)
11 February (Med e-News)  YouTube Video link

Pick a card, any card (Jay Olson, Amir Raz)
10 February (Med e-News)

Smoking thins vital part of brain (Sherif Karama)
10 February (MNI News)

Anorexia nervosa (Howard Steiger)
10 February (Med e-News)

Canadian researchers use electricity to stimulate brains of Alzheimer's patients (Howard Chertkow)
4 February (CTV News)

7 Ways to Retrain Your Brain So You are More Productive (Daniel Levitin)
3 February 2015 Fortune

A Personal Story of Obsessive Compulsion & Music And The Brain (Robert Zatttore)
2 February 2015 New Hampshire Public Radio

Memory's Puppeteer (Scientist to Watch: Mauro Costa-Mattioli, former McGill postdoc in Nahum Sonenberg's lab)
1 February 2015 (The Scientist)

Suicide Prevention Week
1 - 7 February 2015 (Douglas Institute)

 

 


January 2015


Childhood mental illness not a matter of 'lazy parenting' (Jaswant Guzder)
28 January 2015 (CTV News)

Blame it on your brain: salt and hypertension (Charles Bourque)
23 January 2015 (Med e-News)

Why the modern world is bad for your brain (Daniel J. Levitin)
18 January 2015 (The Guardian)

Is it possible to reset our biological clocks? (Diane B. Boivin)
16 January 2015 (The Douglas News)

A little help from your friends just increases pain (Jeffrey Mogil)
15 January 2015 (LA Times)

Stress in males and females (Robert-Paul Juster)
11 January 2015 (Ici Radio-Canada)

It’s all in a good night’s sleep: How quality of sleep impacts academic performance in children (Reut Gruber)
8 January 2015 (Med e-News)

Brain signals that help people focus identified (featuring Sebastien Tremblay and Julio Martinez-Trujillo)
7 January 2015 (Business Standard)

Alzheimer's Awareness Month - Interview with Judes Poirier
6 January (CTV News)

Gustavo Turecki and Judes Poirier among 10 finalists for Québec Science magazine’s Discoveries of the Year 2014
2 January (McGill Reporter)

 

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