Could we temporarily increase brain plasticity in adults to decrease fear and anxiety responses in people who have experienced trauma? CHU Sainte-Justine Neuroscientist Graziella Di Cristo and her team were determined to ...
May 18, 2023
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Scientists at Université de Montréal, McGill University and its affiliated Montreal Children's Hospital have made a promising breakthrough in understanding the origins of mirror movement disorder, a rare inherited neurological ...
May 15, 2023
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There's new hope for potentially restoring vision in patients suffering from degenerative retinal disease, thanks to work by researchers at Université de Montréal.
May 5, 2023
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Scientists have long studied neurostimulation to treat paralysis and sensory deficits caused by strokes and spinal cord injuries, which in Canada affect some 380,000 people across the country.
Apr 20, 2023
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From neurological problems to hearing loss and infertility, survivors of medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, are left with severe physical and cognitive impairments and have an overall mortality rate 21 times ...
Mar 28, 2023
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Can pharmacists be valuable allies for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV)? Can they identify victims, assess the danger they're in and help them find the right resources?
Mar 22, 2023
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In Quebec, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men and the third in women. The appearance and progression of this cancer has been linked to the composition of the gut microbiome. It appears that ...
Mar 16, 2023
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Ten minutes of physical activity a day or less screen time is all it takes to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes and slow its development in youth, according to a study led by Université de Montréal clinical associate professor ...
Mar 14, 2023
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Dominique Tremblay and Élie Boghossian, plastic surgeons at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (MRH) and researchers at the the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, have developed a new approach to nerve transfer that ...
Mar 2, 2023
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Interdisciplinary support groups (ISGs) exist to help health-care teams that offer medical assistance in dying (MAiD). But even though ISGs were introduced in Quebec in 2016, their mandates and services still aren't well-known.
Mar 1, 2023
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