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Deciphering Sleep Patterns to Uncover Insights into Our Health
Sleep takes up almost one third of our life, yet many of its secrets remain unexplained. To penetrate the mystery, neuroscientists are trying to decipher some of the mechanisms of this basic biological function, so key to good health.…
Wound healing is a billion dollar drain on the health system – this discovery hopes to plug it
Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and ageing, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds exceeding $250 billion a year.…
Appointment of Vice-President (Strategy and Major Projects) and Vice-Chancellor’s Chief of Staff
Monash University has announced the appointment of Ms Teresa Finlayson to the newly created position of Vice-President (Strategy and Major Projects) and Vice-Chancellor’s Chief of Staff, following internal and external advertisement of the…
Survey Shows Broad Police Approval for Bodycams in Court
In the courtroom, Quebec provincial police officers seem to be broadly in favour of having images captured by body-worn cameras used as evidence, but are also concerned about some of the potential consequences for the pursuit of…
Two Winners Announced for UdeM’s Innovative Therapies for Hereditary Ataxias Competition
Éric Lécuyer and Pascal Chartrand, professors in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at UdeM's Faculty of Medicine and researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), are among the winners of the…
UdeM Astrophysicist Recognized as One of Canada’s Young Tech Stars
Université de Montreal astrophysicist Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette has been named an emerging leader in technology by The Peak, an online business news site owned by Toronto-based ZoomerMedia.
Deputy Director of UdeM's Trottier…
Symptoms of Concussions Persist in Young Children Three Months Later
Concussions in children aged six and under continue to affect their health three months after the event. This is the finding of a study led by Miriam Beauchamp, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal and…
UdeM Astronomer Discovers Brown Dwarfs Age Alone
Clémence Fontanive, a researcher at Université de Montréal's Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets, used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the coldest and lowest-mass "brown dwarfs" of our solar system.
Brown…
Université de Montréal Ranks in Top 25 for Sustainable Development
The Université de Montréal Innovation Lab‘s 'Building a Sustainable Future' project has made the United Nations Academic Impact’s list of the world’s top 25 higher-education institutions that implement the UN's sustainable-development…
Predicting Cognitive Performance at Age Four from Infancy
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) data collected before the age of one, it is possible to predict which babies will have the highest adaptive behaviour scores at the age of four.
That's what Unversité de Montréal doctoral student of…