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Thirty-two students from six Montreal area high schools will assemble at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University on February 21st to be quizzed about synapses, axons and other cerebral facts in the international contest known as the Brain Bee. The winner will go on to the Canadian National Brain Bee at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON.  The national winner travels to Vienna or Hawaii for the International Brain Bee.

Classified as: neuroscience, Brain Bee, Education Outreach
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Published on: 21 Feb 2013

Montreal researchers find that music lessons before age seven create stronger connections in the brain

If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers. Those lessons you dreaded – or loved – helped develop your brain. The younger you started music lessons, the stronger the connections in your brain.

Classified as: music, collaboration, neuroscience, brain, Development, Neurology, creativity, Robert Zatorre
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Published on: 12 Feb 2013

Guidance proteins regulate brain plasticity

Classified as: neuroscience, brain, learning, Tim Kennedy, Neuro, Brenda Milner, HM, memory, netrins, neurological disorder, synaptic plasticity
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

January 29, 2013 - Addiction to cigarettes, drugs and other stimulants has been linked in the past to the brain’s frontal lobes, but now there is scientific evidence that indicates where in the frontal cortex addiction takes hold and how.  Addiction could be a result of abnormal communication between two areas of the frontal lobes linked to decision-making.  The discovery will undoubtedly stimulate clinical work on new therapies for millions of people who suffer from addiction.

Classified as: neuroscience, addiction, brain, smoking, neurological disease, drugs, Neuro, Alan Evans, decision-making, TMS
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

January 28, 2013 - The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two FET Flagship projects. The new project will federate European efforts to address one of the greatest challenges of modern science: understanding the human brain.

Classified as: neuroscience, brain, international, neurological disorders, Neuro, Alan Evans, CBRAIN, global, the Human Brain Project
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

January 28, 2013 - A revolutionary technology has the ability to detect and diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with unprecedented accuracy. The computerized technique known as SNIPE analyzes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to capture patterns of atrophy specific to the disease in brain structures, specifically the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is still an inexact science, relying mainly on the patient's symptoms and performance on memory tests. Detecting pre-clinical AD, before symptoms appear, is extremely difficult.

Classified as: neuroscience, Alzheimer's, neurological disease, technology, Neuro, detect, diagnosis, Louis Collins
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

November 27, 2012 - Clinician-scientists take a unique, integrated approach that is essential to advancing science and medicine. Problems encountered in the clinic inspire research and new findings from the labs are directly applied to patients’ needs. The integrated model is a hallmark of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University and the MUHC and is now being replicated worldwide. Two clinician-scientists at The Neuro have been awarded grants today to further research on Parkinson’s disease and HIV/AIDS.

Classified as: neuroscience, Parkinson's, CIHR, funding, neurological disorders, HIV, Neuro, AIDS, Lesley Fellows, Neurology, Ted Fon
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

November 21 2012 - Dr. Brenda Milner, pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, is being inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame today. The induction ceremony takes place at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. Other inductees are physicist and educator Dr. Ursula Franklin and aviation pioneer J.A.D. McCurdy.

Classified as: neuroscience, neurological, Brenda Milner, hall of fame, HM, memory, psychology
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013

November 8 2012 - After a worldwide search, the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro – of ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Health Centre has a new director, Guy Rouleau, MD, PhD, FRCPC, OQ.  Dr. Rouleau, a prominent Quebec clinician-scientist recognized for his contributions to science and society, will also hold the Wilder Penfield Chair in Neuroscience as Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ. The appointment takes effect January 1, 2013.

Classified as: neuroscience, genetic, neurological disease, Guy Rouleau, Quebec, Director, Neuro
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Published on: 5 Feb 2013
Microglies

Un événement commun se produit dans maintes pathologies du système nerveux : des cellules microgliales, qui sont des sentinelles chargées de surveiller, se muent en combattantes.  Cellules immunitaires du système nerveux, les microglies ingèrent et détruisent des agents pathogènes et des cellules nerveuses lésées. Bien que ce processus soit crucial dans l’organisme, on savait jusqu’à présent très peu au sujet des mécanismes moléculaires d’activation des microglies.

Classified as: Gene, »åé±¹±ð±ô´Ç±è±è±ð³¾±ð²Ô³Ù, immunitaires, le cerveau, les cellules microgliales, troubles neurologiques
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Published on: 15 Oct 2012
Microglia

In many pathologies of the nervous system, there is a common event - cells called microglia are activated from surveillant watchmen into fighters.  Microglia are the immune cells of the nervous system, ingesting and destroying pathogens and damaged nerve cells. Until now little was known about the molecular mechanisms of microglia activation despite this being a critical process in the body.

Classified as: brain, Development, Gene, neurological, immune response, microglia, epilepsy, injury, neurological disease, pathology, trauma
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Published on: 15 Oct 2012

International study with researchers at The Neuro reveals links with other neurodegenerative diseases

MONTREAL, October 9, 2012  - Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro,  ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University working with a team at Oxford University have uncovered the genetic defect underlying a group of rare genetic disorders. 

Classified as: adult, Alzheimer's, chiild, Gene, genetic, infant, mitochondria, mutation, neurological, Parkinson's, rare disorders
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Published on: 9 Oct 2012

Genes predict the brain’s reaction to smoking 

Classified as: addiction, brain, genetics, images, metabolism, scan, smoking, treatment
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Published on: 20 Sep 2012


Have you ever wondered why some people find it so much easier to stop smoking than others? New research shows that vulnerability to smoking addiction is shaped by our genes. A study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University shows that people with genetically fast nicotine metabolism have a significantly greater brain response to smoking cues than those with slow nicotine metabolism. Previous research shows that greater reactivity to smoking cues predicts decreased success at smoking cessation and that environmental cues promote increased nicotine intake in animals and humans.   This new finding that nicotine metabolism rates affect the brain’s response to smoking may lead the way for tailoring smoking cessation programs based on individual genetics.<!--break-->

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Published on: 11 Sep 2012

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