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Les attaques terroristes coordonnées du 13 novembre 2015 à Paris ont coûté la vie à 133 personnes. Le Dr Etienne de Villers-Sidani explique comment le cerveau humain pourrait surmonter le traumatisme lié au fait d'avoir été témoin d'une telle tragédie.

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Bataclan memorial
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Ready to see how open-source tools are revolutionizing neuroscience?

Join us for Igor Tatarnikov’s talk on The BrainGlobe Initiative, the open-source platform reshaping computational neuroanatomy.

Be part of the future of #OpenScience: buff.ly/p6l83E4

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November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The Neuro is testing a new app that detects movement changes too subtle for the human eye - helping researchers track Parkinson’s symptoms more precisely and speed up the search for better treatments. Dr. Ron Postuma, director of The Neuro’s Movement Disorders Clinic, is leading the clinical trial.
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Chaque traitement commence par un essai clinique. Au Neuro, plus de 100 études par an font progresser les soins du cerveau. En savoir plus 👉 cru.mcgill.ca/fr/patients-2/
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October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Join us at The Neuro’s Open Science Prizes Ceremony for a special lecture by Igor Tatarnikov, Senior Research Software Engineer at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.

🔗 Come be part of the future of open science. buff.ly/p6l83E4

#Neuroscience #Neuroanatomy #OpenScience
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Des chercheurs montréalais, dont le Dr Kevin Petrecca du Neuro et CUSM, ont développé un nouvel outil pour affronter le glioblastome, un cancer du cerveau si impitoyable que certains le surnomment le « Terminator ».

Pour en savoir plus, consultez cet article de La Presse : tr.ee/D1538YStb_
Neurochirurgie
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Depuis près de 40 ans, l’Unité de recherche clinique du Neuro joue un rôle essentiel dans l’avancement des traitements contre les maladies neurologiques. For nearly 40 years, the CRU has played an essential role in advancing treatments for neurological diseases.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A new study led by Dr. Maiya Geddes and PhD candidate Naga Thovinakere at The Neuro sheds light on the factors influencing whether people change their exercise habits after a cardiovasular diagnosis.

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Older people exercising
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A made-in-Montreal neurosurgical tool co-developed by Dr. Kevin Petrecca at The Neuro is helping doctors extend the lives of people with #braincancer.

Learn more in this report from CTV News.

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SENTRY device
October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Dr. Adrián Noriega de la Colina recently joined Kelly Alexander on CJAD 800 Montreal’s “Ask the Experts” to discuss modifiable risk factors of dementia, and what we can all do to protect brain health across the lifespan.

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Adrián Noriega de la Colina
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A study led by Dr. Etienne de Villers-Sidani is the first in humans to show online brain training exercises can improve brain networks affecting learning and memory.

Learn more in this report from CNN: tr.ee/cyH4b7rz0T
Etienne de Villers-Sidani
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A research team led by neuroscientist Heidi McBride has discovered a new pathway that links five different proteins mutated in familial #Parkinson’s disease along a common immune pathway.

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heidi McBride
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A study by Dr. Etienne de Villers Sidani is the first in humans to show that online brain training exercises can improve brain networks affecting learning and memory. The study found that a game-like app called BrainHQ enhanced cholinergic function.

🖥️ 🧠https://tr.ee/NvOm7-4587
Online brain training exercise
October 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Nous avons eu le privilège d’accueillir Christian Dubé, ministre de la Santé du Québec, pour assister à une chirurgie cérébrale guidée en temps réel par l’intelligence artificielle et qui permet aux neurochirurgiens de distinguer les tissus cancéreux des tissus sains pendant une opération.
October 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Kris Noakes—Anishinaabe mother and community leader—diagnosed with ALS, is donating her biological samples and clinical data to The Neuro’s Open Biobank. Helping researchers around the world speed up the search for treatments and cures for neurological diseases. @cusm-muhc.bsky.social @mcgill.ca
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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“Open Science gives patients back control” Living with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia for 20+ years, Linda Lafontaine chose to act—by contributing her data and samples to The Neuro’s Open Biobank. Fueling research into HSP, ALS, Parkinson’s, ataxia, and more—helping scientists accelerate discovery.
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Le directeur du Neuro, le Dr Guy Rouleau, propose de relocaliser Le Neuro sur le site Glen du CUSM.

«Les bâtiments vétustes du Neuro, situés rue University, ne répondent plus aux besoins d’aujourd’hui, et posent des risques réels de bris de service».

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October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Today, a team of scientists led by Jordan DeKraker, Boris Bernhardt and Alan Evans published HippoMaps, an #openaccess toolbox and online data warehouse for the mapping and contextualization of subregional hippocampal data in the human brain.

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October 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Northern and Indigenous communities often face barriers to healthcare. Recently, Dr. Raluca Pana and EEG technician Chantal Lessard, along with senior neurology resident Dr. Aliya Szpindel, traveled to Kuujjuaq to offer consultations and EEG diagnostic services for people with epilepsy symptoms.
EEG recording
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Demonstrated for the first time this week, the SENTRY™, developed by Dr. Kevin Petrecca, and Frédéric Leblond from Polytechnique Montreal, can tell cancer tissue from healthy tissue in real time, allowing surgeons to remove more cancer while avoiding healthy tissue.

💡 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe...
Dr. Petrecca in surgery
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A groundbreaking project led by Dr. Pedro Rosa-Neto at The Neuro has received a major boost thanks to a $10-million grant from the Weston Family Foundation, with the acquisition of the first ultra-high-sensitivity whole body PET/CT scanner in Canada.

Learn more: www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe...
PET imaging
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Adrien Peyrache, neuroscientifique au Neuro, parle avec journaliste Jean-Benoit Legault d’une nouvelle étude qui a découvert que les objets visuels activent de manière préférentielle le système de navigation spatiale du cerveau.

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Une personne regardant une carte dans la forêt.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🤔Ne vous êtes-vous pas déjà demandé d’où nos #émotions tirent leurs origines? C’est le sujet que nous avons abordé dans la récente parution du magazine @curiummag.com 📖.

Accèdez à la version PDF ici : www.mcgill.ca/neuro/files/...

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September 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Félicitations au neuroscientifique Sylvain Baillet, qui a été intronisé à la Société royale du Canada, l'une des plus hautes distinctions universitaires du pays.

En savoir plus : www.mcgill.ca/neuro/fr/cha...
September 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Obesity increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, yet it remained unclear whether #obesity causes #neurodegeneration through the same mechanisms. A new study by Filip Morys in the lab of Alain Dagher used #OpenScience brain data to find the answer.

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August 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM