Bad sleep habits in children begin earlier than many experts assume. That’s the takeaway from a new study led by McGill University researchers. The findings suggest that official sleep guidelines for young school children should be revisited – and that parents ought to maintain firm bedtime rules throughout children’s primary-school years.

Classified as: sleep habits, bedtime, sleep, school-age children, Reut Gruber, mcgill faculty of medicine, The Douglas, Attention, Behavior, and Sleep Lab at Montreal's Mental Health University Institute and the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
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Published on: 20 Mar 2018

Preventing cancer cells from growing by understanding what they 'eat'.

Classified as: metabolism, McGill University, health, Cancer, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, mcgill faculty of medicine, cancer cells, lung cancer, Russell Jones
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Published on: 20 Oct 2015

The largest population genome sequencing effort to date is published today in Nature. Based on data collected by the UK10K project, the study was designed to explore the contribution of rare genetic variants to human disease and its impact on risk factors. Rare genetic variants are changes in DNA that are carried only by relatively few people in a population.

Classified as: McGill, celia greenwood, mcgill faculty of medicine, Lady Davis Institute (LDI), Brent Richards, UK10K, genome project, human genome, rare genetic variants, bioinfomatics
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Published on: 15 Sep 2015

Dancing the Argentine tango could have potential benefits for people at certain stages in the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to findings in a new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

Classified as: neuroscience, brain, Research, Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, tango, Parkinson's disease, mcgill faculty of medicine, reseach, Silvia Rios Romenets
Published on: 14 Apr 2015
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