McGill wins $84 million grant for neuroscience

Published: 6 September 2016

McGill University will launch an ambitious effort to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders, thanks to an $84 million, seven-year...

Early life adversity affects broad regions of brain DNA

Published: 10 October 2012

Early life experience results in a broad change in the way our DNA is “epigenetically” chemically marked in the brain by a coat of small chemicals called methyl groups, according to researchers at...

William Feindel (1918-2014)

Published: 15 January 2014

William Feindel, O.C., G.O.Q., MDCM, D. Phil...

Timing is everything: scientists control rapid re-wiring of brain circuits using patterned visual stimulation

Published: 27 May 2014

In a new study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, researchers show for the first time how the brain re-wires and fine-tunes its connections differently depending on the...

FINDING "LOST" LANGUAGES IN THE BRAIN

Published: 17 November 2014

 Study has far-reaching implications for unconscious role of infant experiences on adult development...

What makes the brain tick so fast?

Published: 25 February 2016

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom...

Major advance in understanding risky but effective Multiple Sclerosis treatment

Published: 26 March 2013

Powerful treatment improves patients’ lives and provides new insight into mechanisms of the disease

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