Month: July 2014
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International team sheds new light on biology underlying schizophrenia
Genes, pathways identified could inform new approaches to treatment As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have helped identify over […]
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A weighty discovery
Humans have developed sophisticated concepts like mass and gravity to explain a wide range of everyday phenomena, but scientists have remarkably little understanding of how such concepts are represented by […]
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New hope for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
A genetic variant conveys significant protection Judes Poirier, PhD, C.Q., from the Douglas Mental Health Institute and McGill University in Montréal (Canada) and his team have discovered that a relatively […]
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Scientists find important piece in the brain tumour puzzle
Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University and McGill University Health Centre have shown that a member of the protein family known as SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) […]
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Discovery of a new means to erase pain
A study published in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience by Yves De Koninck and Robert Bonin, two researchers at Université Laval, reveals that it is possible to relieve pain hypersensitivity […]