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neuroprojects /channels/taxonomy/term/9756/all en Un montréalais au secours des parisiens /channels/news/un-montrealais-au-secours-des-parisiens-260639 Un expert québécois soignera les plaies des centaines de victimes des attentats de Paris aux prises avec un syndrome de stress post-traumatique. La méthode du Montréalais Alain Brunet, spécialiste en traumatismes, sera utilisée dans 14 hôpitaux parisiens auprès de plus de 400 patients. La Presse <a href="http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/ff1abaa4-6604-4e22-a13c-0ec34df0cf03%7CTXsc6nCiI66z.html">Partie 1</a> <a href="http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/ff1abaa4-6604-4e22-a13c-0ec34df0cf03|TXsciN7AxVJI.html">Partie 2</a> Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:03:29 +0000 webfull 118541 at /channels Decoding connectivity /channels/news/decoding-connectivity-261386 <a href="/newsroom">ƻ��Ժ Newsroom</a> It’s all math: How Professor Alan Evans is using cutting-edge statistics to unravel the complexity of brain disorders. When Alan Evans was starting out in the 1970s, researchers didn’t ask the boss to foot their bar tab. But that’s exactly what some of the coders in his Montreal Neurological Institute lab recently proposed: a 9-to-5 Saturday hackathon, held in an Irish pub a few blocks from the ƻ��Ժ campus. Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:26:08 +0000 webfull 119480 at /channels Victor Phillip Dahdaleh supports neuroscience research /channels/news/victor-phillip-dahdaleh-supports-neuroscience-research-261018 <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">ƻ��Ժ Newsroom</a> Gift expands scholarship program at ƻ��Ժ with $3.5 million gift $3.5 million gift from ƻ��Ժ alumnus and long-time university supporter, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh, will make a major contribution to the field of brain research at the University and provide expanded support to the Victor Dahdaleh-Clinton Foundation Scholarship program. Thu, 26 May 2016 17:18:57 +0000 webfull 119009 at /channels New path of discovery in Parkinson’s disease /channels/news/new-path-discovery-parkinson%E2%80%99s-disease-261519 ƻ��Ժ Newsroom Neuron cell death may be caused by overactive immune system A team of scientists led by Dr. Michel Desjardins from the University of Montreal and Dr. Heidi McBride from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) at ƻ��Ժ have discovered that two genes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) are key regulators of the immune system, providing direct evidence linking Parkinson's to autoimmune disease. Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:01:51 +0000 webfull 119633 at /channels Podcast: Pedro Valdes-Sosa /channels/news/pedro-valdes-sosa-podcast-261116 By the Media Relations Office, <a href="/newsroom">ƻ��Ժ Newsroom</a> Spotlight on neurosciences Neuroinformatics stands at the intersection of neuroscience and information science. One of the world leaders in this discipline is Prof. Pedro Valdes-Sosa, General Vice-Director for Research of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO) which he co-founded in 1990. Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:49:31 +0000 webfull 119112 at /channels Are EEG neurofeedback benefits due to placebo effects? /channels/news/are-eeg-neurofeedback-benefits-due-placebo-effects-261120 Neurofeedback using electroencephalograpy boasts thousands of practitioners and appears to both improve normal brain function and alleviate a wide variety of mental disorders – from anxiety to alcoholism. But after examining the scientific literature and consulting experts in Europe and the U.S., ƻ��Ժ researchers Robert Thibault and Amir Raz conclude that clinical improvements from this increasingly popular alternative therapy are due to placebo effects. Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:29:55 +0000 webfull 119115 at /channels New vision, model for genomic and clinical data sharing /channels/news/new-vision-model-genomic-and-clinical-data-sharing-261214 <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">ƻ��Ժ Newsroom</a> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:52:51 +0000 webfull 119277 at /channels Creation of neuroscience research hub /channels/news/creation-neuroscience-research-hub-261322 <a href="/newsroom">ƻ��Ժ Newsroom</a> EMC working with ƻ��Ժ to support data storage and visualization technologies to help with the NeuroHub project The Canadian research team that helped spearhead the international brain-mapping project known as BigBrain is about to get a major boost in its effort to produce sharply higher-resolution brain maps, thanks to technology from EMC Corporation. Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:01:37 +0000 webfull 119404 at /channels