/channels/taxonomy/term/3941/all en /channels/channels/event/call-submissions-mcgill-programs-whole-person-care-trainee-writing-award-351106 <p><strong>The International Journal of Whole Person Care</strong></p> <p><b>Special issue on Vulnerability</b></p> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:16:18 +0000 webfull 192910 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mcgill-cares-frontotemporal-dementia-and-managing-challenging-behaviour-330107 <p>Join us on聽<strong>April 7, 2021</strong>聽at noon for the next webcast in our biweekly series,聽<em><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/community-outreach/dementia/mcgill-cares-webcasts">平特五不中 Cares</a></strong></em>, designed to support</p> Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:59:44 +0000 webfull 169531 at /channels /channels/channels/news/game-changing-blood-test-accurately-detects-alzheimers-disease-322092 <p style="text-align:center"><strong>平特五不中-Gothenburg collaboration yields affordable test that could revolutionize the way AD is diagnosed, studied and treated</strong></p> <p>By Gillian Woodford</p> <p>A simple blood test that can detect Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) has been discovered and validated in a joint effort by a 平特五不中 team and researchers in Sweden. Their results are published in the May issue of聽The Lancet Neurology.聽An accompanying聽commentary聽calls the discovery 鈥渢ransformative.鈥�</p> Fri, 08 May 2020 21:10:02 +0000 webfull 160611 at /channels /channels/channels/news/promising-advance-depression-research-321494 <p>Depression is a common psychiatric disorder and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Antidepressants are the first-line treatment for moderate to severe major depressive episodes. Despite their effectiveness, only 40% of patients respond to the first antidepressant they try. A recent paper in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15423-5">Nature Communication</a>聽strongly suggests that a particular protein, GPR56, is involved in the biology of depression and the effect of antidepressants.</p> Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:46:01 +0000 webfull 159971 at /channels /channels/channels/news/exceptional-donation-support-autism-research-302552 <p><strong>Q1K: A collaborative undertaking involving 1,000聽families to transform autism care</strong></p> Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:35:54 +0000 webfull 155416 at /channels /channels/channels/news/early-life-factors-connected-suicide-risk-later-life-300420 <p>Researchers have long been interested in the question of whether a correlation exists between one鈥檚 early-life environment and suicide rates, with studies on the topic dating back to the 1980s. However, these studies have focused on individual countries or on only one or few risk factors. As a result, the lack of any meta-analysis of the data has made it difficult to draw any coherent conclusions.</p> Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:52:21 +0000 webfull 152876 at /channels /channels/channels/news/towards-new-era-small-animal-imaging-research-297501 <p>Have you ever spent half an hour trying to take the best photo of your pets but they won't stay still in the perfect angle? This is also true for small animal imaging research using positron emission tomography (PET). Because of this, the use of anesthesia is a widespread practice in animal imaging. It鈥檚 one of the biggest limitations to imaging studies because anesthesia alters the animal鈥檚 normal physiological state, blurring the answers to the questions that many researchers have been asking.</p> Thu, 30 May 2019 14:44:01 +0000 webfull 149640 at /channels /channels/channels/news/quebec-siblings-rare-orphan-disease-lead-discovery-rare-genetic-diseases-296454 <p>Mutations in a gene involved in brain development have led to the discovery of two new neurodevelopmental diseases by an international team led by researchers at 平特五不中 and CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center.</p> <p>The first clues about the rare disorder arose after doctors were unable to diagnose why two siblings from Qu茅bec City were experiencing seizures and neurodevelopmental deficits. Desperate, the children鈥檚 family turned to Carl Ernst at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal for answers.</p> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:06:05 +0000 webfull 148625 at /channels /channels/channels/news/alzheimers-disease-neuronal-loss-very-limited-283921 <p>Frequently encountered in the elderly, Alzheimer鈥檚 is considered a neurodegenerative disease, which means that it is accompanied by a significant, progressive loss of neurons and their nerve endings, or synapses. A joint French and Canadian study published in Scientific Reports now challenges this view.</p> Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:54:46 +0000 webfull 134145 at /channels /channels/channels/news/child-abuse-affects-brain-wiring-270024 <p><em>By Katherine Gombay</em></p> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:49:00 +0000 webfull 131401 at /channels /channels/channels/news/playing-action-video-games-may-be-bad-your-brain-study-finds-269315 <p>The study by Canadian researchers <strong>Dr. V茅ronique Bohbot</strong> of Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal and Dr.聽Greg West, an associate professor at the French-language Universit茅 de Montr茅al, demonstrates that the way first-person shooter video game players use their brains to navigate within the game changes the impact various games have on their nervous system.</p> <p>Read more:聽<a href="http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/08/08/playing-action-video-games-may-be-bad-for-your-brain-study-finds/"><em>Radio-Canada International</em></a></p> Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:55:57 +0000 webfull 129591 at /channels /channels/channels/news/costs-associated-homelessness-are-high-suggesting-need-shift-programs-end-homelessness-269176 <p> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:07:46 +0000 webfull 129428 at /channels /channels/news/small-increases-sleep-improve-grades-260065 <p><strong><em>By Cynthia Lee, <a href="/newsroom">平特五不中 Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>鈥婩amily and community involvement key in empowering students to make healthier choices regarding their sleep</em></p> <p>Elementary school-age children who improved their sleep habits also improved in their academic performance, according to a study by researchers at 平特五不中 and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in partnership with the Riverside School Board in Montreal.</p> Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:16:27 +0000 webfull 117824 at /channels /channels/news/dna-signature-found-ice-storm-babies-239204 <div> <p style="text-align:left" align="center">The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec鈥檚 Ice Storm (1998) predicts the epigenetic profile of her child, a new study finds.</p> <p align="center"><b> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:34:46 +0000 webfull 105570 at /channels /channels/news/alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease-it-takes-two-proteins-tango-260514 <p>For years, neuroscientists have puzzled over how two abnormal proteins, called amyloid and tau, accumulate in the brain and damage it to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD). Which one is the driving force behind dementia? The answer: both of them, according to a new study by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.</p> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:33 +0000 webfull 118364 at /channels