Stress heightens fear of threats from the past

McGill Newsroom Recognizing threats is an essential function of the human mind — think “fight or flight” — one that is aided by...
August 8, 2017

New research offers hope for faster acting antidepressants

By Shawn Hayward, The Neuro For people suffering from depression, a day without treatment can seem like a lifetime. A new study explains...
August 3, 2017

Technology offers creative strategies to prevent and treat HCV at scale

Dr. Nitika Pant Pai, Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill, is the developer behind a smartphone app called HIVSmart! which enables self-testing for...
August 2, 2017

New MUHC study calls for targeted screening of high-risk healthcare workers for tuberculosis

Current strategy of annual screening in North America is expensive and ineffective By Julie Robert, MUHC Tuberculosis (TB) is a recognized hazard for healthcare...
July 31, 2017

Brains are more plastic than we thought

Researchers train brains to use different regions for same task By Shawn Hayward, the Neuro Practice might not always make perfect, but it’s...
July 19, 2017

Detecting long-term concussion in athletes

Researchers develop method that could one day be used in brain trauma lawsuits Lawyers representing both sides in concussion lawsuits against sports leagues...
July 12, 2017

Differences in U.S. infant mortality rates among black and white babies

A new research letter published by JAMA Pediatrics examined trends in overall and cause-specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant...
July 10, 2017

Soul music: how ‘unresponsive’ patients learned to communicate

In a recent article on Medium, Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Assistant Professor at McGill’s School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, explains how technology is...
July 6, 2017

How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology

Researchers pinpoint the roles of FOXP3 – a key gene in the regulation of our immune system From MUHC Newsroom   Montreal, July...
July 6, 2017

Cancer researchers overestimate reproducibility of preclinical studies

Findings raise questions over how cancer scientists interpret the strength of scientific reports Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies...
July 3, 2017

An infallible hand-held probe to aid cancer surgery

Canadian researchers have invented an intraoperative probe that reliably detects multiple types of tumour cells  Patients with common widespread forms of cancer will...
July 3, 2017

Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality

Different forms of memory exist in the same neuron and can be manipulated separately Scientists have known for some time that a memory...
June 28, 2017