Education
Video of Govt. Budget Cuts Town Hall with Provost Masi & VP Di Grappa and Other Useful Links
Please find below the link to the Town Hall held by Provost Anthony Masi and VP Michael Di Grappa in the McIntyre building...
February 20, 2013
Facilitating Access to care for Patients with Mental Disorders
It is easier to get care when you are diagnosed with cancer than when you are diagnosed with a mental disorder. Lynne McVey...
February 20, 2013
The Human Brain Project: winner of the largest European scientific funding competition
The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two FET Flagship projects. The...
February 20, 2013
Gains made towards treatment of rare bone disease
Elusive substrate protein identified in the most common form of heritable rickets Diagnosed in toddlers, X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common form...
February 20, 2013
Improving tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis: an interview with Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD
Please can you give a brief introduction to tuberculosis (TB)? TB is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nearly 9 million people...
February 15, 2013
Early musical training forms stronger brain connections
Turns out your mother was right about practising the piano. A new study from Concordia University and the Montreal Neurological Institute backs up...
February 14, 2013
Chronic pain alters DNA marking in the brain
Pioneering study reveals association of chronic pain and broad epigenetic changes. Injuries that result in chronic pain, such as limb injuries, and those...
February 14, 2013
Early music lessons boost brain development
Montreal researchers find that music lessons before age seven create stronger connections in the brain If you started piano lessons in grade one,...
February 12, 2013
A message from Provost Anthony C. Masi and Vice-Principal (Administration and Finance) Michael Di Grappa
We encourage you to attend the Town Hall meetings on government funding cuts, where we will discuss the severity of the financial...
February 8, 2013
Finding the way to memory
Guidance proteins regulate brain plasticity Our ability to learn and form new memories is fully dependent on the brain’s ability to be plastic...
February 7, 2013
Addiction: abnormal communication in the brain
Addiction to cigarettes, drugs and other stimulants has been linked in the past to the brain’s frontal lobes, but now there is scientific...
February 7, 2013
Association of diabetes with anxiety
McGill and Université de Montréal researchers investigate whether there's a link between diabetes and anxiety… "Anxiety has been shown to be associated with...
February 7, 2013
