Learning and Memory

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 15:30to16:30

Webinar, CA/involvementCategory: Macdonald Campus Macdonald Campus Student Services Skills21 Office for Students with Disabilities Student services

A new study shows that the hippocampus retains traces of negative and stressful experiences which are linked to depressive behaviours

Published: 13 August 2019

Depression can be associated with behaviours such as social avoidance, that is, the refusal to interact with others for fear of being judged or criticized. Physicians and other mental health...

The K.A.C. Elliott Lecture

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 16:00to17:30

The K.A.C.3801 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, CA/channels-contributeCategory: Dept. of Biology Medicine Research MNI

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...

Erasure of negative memories one step closer to reality

Published: 27 June 2017

Different forms of memory exist in the same neuron and can be manipulated separately...

World renowned scientist Dr. Brenda Milner receives Dan David Prize

Published: 13 February 2014

Dr. Brenda Milner, an active researcher at the age of 95 at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, has been awarded the 2014 Dan David Prize for her fundamental...

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 — without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New...

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