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Speeding up SSRIs

Published: 3 August 2017

For people suffering from depression, a day without treatment can seem like a lifetime. A new study explains why the most commonly prescribed antidepressants can take as long as six weeks to have...

Detecting long-term concussion in athletes

Published: 12 July 2017

Lawyers representing both sides in concussion lawsuits against sports leagues may eventually have a new tool at their disposal: a diagnostic signature that uses artificial intelligence to detect...

Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality

Published: 27 June 2017

Scientists have known for some time that a memory is stored in the brain through changes in the strength of particular synapses, the structures that pass signals between neurons. However, how the...

Major ALS Research Funding Announced

Published: 24 November 2016

By Shawn Hayward,聽Montreal Neurological Institute...

Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease

Published: 28 November 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.聽

Encouraging results for patients with aggressive brain cancer

Published: 23 March 2017

Being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor is devastating news for patients and their loved ones.聽Whereas some types of tumor respond well to treatment, others such as glioblastomas 鈥 the most...

There鈥檚 More Than Meets the Eye When Making Choices

Published: 14 December 2015

If you鈥檙e pondering whether to buy a Galaxy smartphone or an iPhone this holiday season, a part of the brain called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (PFC) might ultimately determine your choice....

Improving memory with magnets

Published: 28 March 2017

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives 鈥 without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New...

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