Wilder Penfield Lecture - Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of AI

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 16:00to17:00

The Penfield Lecture was inaugurated in 1985 to honour Wilder Penfield, pioneering neurosurgeon and founder of The Neuro. A cocktail reception will follow.3801 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A...

Dorothy J Killam Lecture: Complex Pattern Recognition: Are Two Half-Brains Better Than One?

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 16:00to17:00

The Neuro's Dorothy J. Killam Lecture was established in 2004 to recognize women of influence in business, science, politics or the humanities. Professor Marlene Behrmann will deliver the 2024...

Pinpointing the origins of autism

Published: 29 August 2017

The origins of autism remain mysterious. What areas of the brain are involved, and when do the first signs appear? New findings published in Biological Psychiatry bring us closer to understanding...

Montreal's Neuro and AI community at heart of 'open science' movement

Published: 30 August 2017

Montreal's world-famous brain research centre is in the middle of conducting an experiment on what could be its most ambitious subject: itself. Since 2016, McGill University's Montreal Neurological...

Brains are more plastic than we thought

Published: 19 July 2017

Practice might not always make perfect, but it’s essential for learning a sport or a musical instrument. It's also the basis of brain training, an approach that holds potential as a non-invasive...

Breakthrough in MS treatment

Published: 9 January 2017

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...

50th anniversary of "Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory"

Published: 17 November 2015

November 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking paper, “Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory” co-authored by McGill’s Ronald Melzack, and the late Patrick Wall, which introduced gate-control...

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