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Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.

Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of Â鶹AV have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.

Classified as: specific musical anhedonia, Robert Zatorre, fMRI, neuroscience, University of Barcelona
Published on: 4 Jan 2017

Drug shown to reduce new attacks/symptom progression in some patients

In separate clinical trials, a drug called ocrelizumab has been shown to reduce new attacks in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), and new symptom progression in primary progressive MS.

Classified as: MS, ocrelizumab, Amit Bar-Or, Douglas Arnold, Multiple Sclerosis
Published on: 22 Dec 2016

Study tracks patients to better understand effects and possible treatments

December 1 is World AIDS Day, a time to raise awareness about a disease that has afflicted 70 million people worldwide, 35 million of whom have died as a result.

Classified as: SIDA, AIDS, HIV, VIH, Journée mondiale du sida, Cognitive neuroscience, Lesley Fellows
Published on: 1 Dec 2016

Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells.

Classified as: genetics, epilepsy, Peter McPherson, Epileptic encephalopathy, Chanshuai Han, DENND5A
Published on: 28 Nov 2016

Two researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) of Â鶹AV have received funding to study a devastating neurodegenerative disease that first appears in toddlers just as they are beginning to walk.

Classified as: University of Saskatchewan, ARSACS Foundation, Charlevoix-Saguenay, ARSACS, Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay, genetics, stem cells, Neuro Giving, Peter McPherson, Edward Fon
Published on: 24 Nov 2016

MNI scientists will study stem cells, genetic mutations to develop new treatments

Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute of Â鶹AV who are playing key roles in uncovering the mechanisms underlying ALS will share in $3.9 million in research funding, part of $4.5 million announced on Nov. 23 by the ALS Society of Canada in partnership with Brain Canada.

Classified as: ALS, Brain Canada, C9ORF72, Canada Brain Research Fund, ALS Society of Canada, Gary Armstrong, Patrick Dion, Stefano Stifani, Peter McPherson, Guy Rouleau
Published on: 23 Nov 2016

When two people smell the same thing, they can have remarkably different reactions, depending on their cultural background. Researchers at the Neuro have found that even when two cultures share the same language and many traditions, their reactions to the same smells can be different.

Classified as: olfactory system, smell, france, Quebec, cognitive, neuroscience, Jelena Djordjevic
Published on: 21 Nov 2016

Â鶹AV will receive more than $1.1 million for CBRAIN, one of the world’s most advanced computing platforms for brain research, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.

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Published on: 2 Nov 2016

Â鶹AV will launch an ambitious effort to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders, thanks to an $84 million, seven-year grant announced today under the federal government's Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF).

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Published on: 2 Nov 2016

Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have used a powerful tool to better understand the progression of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD), identifying its first physiological signs.

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Published on: 2 Nov 2016

Scientists have identified a gene in the French-Canadian population that predisposes them to the development of intracranial aneurysm (IA), a potentially life threatening neurological condition that is responsible for approximately 500,000 deaths worldwide per year, half of which occur in people less than 50 years of age.

Using genetic analysis, the team of researchers found rare variations of one gene, RNF213, that appeared more frequently in IA patients than in the control group. Both patients and the control group came from French-Canadian families.

Classified as: Guy Rouleau, Simon Girard, intracranial aneurysm, moya moya disease, IA, RNF213
Published on: 31 Oct 2016

In  conjunction with Open Access Week and Homecoming, 135 years of Â鶹AV graduate scholarship is now available online! Years in the making, the electronic thesis and dissertation collection now includes almost 42,000 open access Â鶹AV theses and dissertations dating back to 1881. Theses and dissertations are searchable by faculty and department, degree, or subject at . To date almost 7,000 theses have been digitized representing almost a million pages.

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Published on: 27 Oct 2016

You probably know someone who has it. It is the most common movement disorder, yet most people don’t even know its name.

Essential tremor affects nearly one per cent of the world’s population, increasing to four per cent of those over 40. The involuntary shaking of hands is the most common symptom, but symptoms can also include shaking of the head and legs.

Classified as: genetics, Guy Rouleau, essential tremor, Simon Girard, movement disorders
Published on: 21 Oct 2016

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) is pleased to announce a new initiative designed to ease the suffering of seriously ill patients through specialized consultation and comprehensive care.

The Susan Cameron Cook Neuro-Palliative Care Program, named in honour of Susan Cameron Cook, whose family provided vital seed funding for this initiative, has the goal of reducing the mental and physical suffering of neurological patients and their families in the journey from diagnosis of a terminal illness to end of life.

Classified as: Palliative Care, terminal illness, Cook family, Neuro-Palliative Care, Guy Rouleau
Published on: 17 Oct 2016

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