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