In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a McGill team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.
Jun 26, 2018
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The team of Bruno Giros, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and professor of psychiatry at McGill University, reports the first-ever connection between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to ...
Feb 15, 2016
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The discovery of a new mechanism involved in depression - and a way to target it with a drug as effective as classical antidepressants—provides new understanding of this illness and could pave the way for treatments with ...
May 7, 2018
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A new brain-imaging technique enables people to 'watch' their own brain activity in real time and to control or adjust function in pre-determined brain regions. The study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital ...
Jan 21, 2014
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Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction. The findings, which ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Today the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) and the McGill Genome Center announced the initial results of their study into the genetic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, the virus responsible for the ...
Sep 22, 2020
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A large analysis of personality studies has found that people with obesity behave somewhat like people with addictions to alcohol or drugs. But obesity is also a complex condition that cannot be fully explained by the addiction ...
Oct 28, 2019
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Mice represent well over half of the non-human subjects of biomedical research, and the vast majority of those mice are inbred. Formed by generation after generation of mating between brothers and sisters, inbred mice are ...
Dec 5, 2018
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Rates of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, are on the rise in Canada. Those living in southern and coastal areas are most at risk, according to a new study led by McGill University.
Jun 20, 2022
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The study of a Quebec family with an unusual gene provides novel insight into how our brain is built and, according to the McGill led team of scientists, offers a better understanding of psychiatric disorders such as depression, ...
Jun 18, 2018
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