Kathleen Cullen /newsroom/taxonomy/term/7036/all en Keeping our balance - a tale of two systems /newsroom/channels/news/keeping-our-balance-tale-two-systems-264108 <p>The transition from being sea creatures to living on land, even if it happened over 300 million years ago, seems to have left its traces on the way we keep our balance today.</p> <p>“It’s a discovery that is likely to be controversial,” says Kathy Cullen, the senior researcher on a paper on the subject that was published recently in <em><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13229">Nature Communications</a>.</em> She has been working on this problem for over a decade with her colleague Maurice Chacron who also teaches in ƽ岻’s Department of Physiology.</p> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:04:22 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26383 at /newsroom Our elegant brain: motor learning in the fast lane /newsroom/channels/news/our-elegant-brain-motor-learning-fast-lane-254348 <p>It takes a surprisingly small cluster of brain cells deep within the cerebellum to learn how to serve a tennis ball, or line up a hockey shot.</p> <p> Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:07:19 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 24378 at /newsroom