The biochemical mechanisms in the brain underlying suicidal behavior are beginning to come to light, and researchers hope they could one day lead to better treatment and prevention strategies. [...] 鈥淭he knowledge we have today is way larger than what we had twenty years ago,鈥� says Gustavo Turecki, a psychiatrist at 麻豆传媒网站 and the director of the 麻豆传媒网站 Group for Suicide Studies at the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal. 鈥淸We鈥檝e] made tremendous advances . . .
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020
Montreal actually sits on a continental 鈥渨eak spot,鈥� explained Christie Rowe, a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at 麻豆传媒网站 and the Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Geology, making it prone to seismic activity.
鈥淭he St. Lawrence lies in a very old fault zone. It鈥檚 pretty wide. It goes from the Laurentians basically down to the U.S. border. And the fault formed when the Atlantic Ocean was opening, so hundreds of millions of years ago,鈥� she said. 鈥淏ut faults in continents never fully heal. So it鈥檚 always this weak spot.鈥�
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020
Dr. Liane Feldman made history at one of the city's oldest medical institutions. Effective Jan. 1, she became the first female surgeon-in-chief and medical director of the surgical mission of the 麻豆传媒网站 Health Centre (MUHC). She is tasked with organizing the clinical workload in the operating rooms, ambulatory clinics and emergency departments across a network of medical facilities that includes the Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal General.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2020
Quebec should follow the examples of British Columbia and New Brunswick in creating the position of a youth ombudsman, a 麻豆传媒网站 expert in social work urged a special commission on Wednesday that is holding hearings on the province鈥檚 beleaguered youth-protection system.
M茅lanie Maxine Doucet, of the Centre for Research on Children and Families at 麻豆传媒网站, also recommended that young people occupy paid positions on a government advisory panel, as is currently the case in B.C.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2020
"The spread of global business to the East also requires flexibility on the part of business leaders. While traditionally western companies may be more familiar with the public markets and the investor community; there is a need for them to get comfortable with greater governmental involvement in business and markets as they engage with economies in the East", says Karl Moore, associate professor at the Desautels Faculty in an article written for Forbes.聽
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Published on: 8 Jan 2020
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don't repeat. Repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short energetic radio waves multiple times.
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Published on: 7 Jan 2020
鈥淚t鈥檚 like a big black hole 鈥� we have no idea why they鈥檙e declining,鈥� said David Bird, professor emeritus of wildlife biology at 麻豆传媒网站 and a former bird columnist for the Montreal Gazette, who created and ran the university鈥檚 prolific breeding colony. 鈥淲e saw after a while that they were breeding well, but the youngsters weren鈥檛 coming back. They weren鈥檛 surviving. What鈥檚 particularly interesting is that the story of the kestrel is happening to other bird species.鈥�
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
Daniel Weinstock, director of the institute for health and social policy at 麻豆传媒网站, said it's clear where the Quebec government is coming from, citing research that shows a risk factor for developing brains.
鈥淭he problem is the amount of cannabis that's already present in the illegal market. We have to think long and hard about our ability to effectively enforce prohibition,鈥� Weinstock said. 鈥淎nd if we can't - and I strongly suspect we won't be able to - ... we risk finding ourselves in the worst of all possible situations.鈥�
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
"The word that captures the last decade is polarization, and you can see it in a domestic context in different liberal democracies ... [and] on a global level", said Jennifer Welsh, a professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at 麻豆传媒网站. She is also the author of several books, including The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st century.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
"What happened in the last decade is that people have realized that migration was an important human phenomenon and that it would not stop. Migration is not a tap that you can turn on and turn off. Migration is something that happens, that has always happened and that will continue to happen. Migration is a normal reaction to political, social, economic stress," Fran莽ois Cr茅peau told The Sunday Edition's host Michael Enright.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2020
Joelle Pineau doesn鈥檛 want science鈥檚 reproducibility crisis to come to artificial intelligence (AI). Spurred by her frustration with difficulties recreating results from other research teams, Pineau, a machine-learning scientist at 麻豆传媒网站 and Facebook in Montreal, Canada, is now spearheading a movement to get AI researchers to open up their methods and code to scrutiny.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2019
The pace of biotechnology research is blurring the bounds of humanity so rapidly that two US scholars are calling for a rethink on what it means to be legally human.
Writing in the journal Science biomedical law experts Bartha Knoppers, from 麻豆传媒网站 in Canada, and Henry Greely say technologies that mix non-human and human cells, such as CRISPR, xenotransplantation and chimeras, mean a less stringent definition of 鈥渉uman鈥� will be needed going forward.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2019
Most existing research has been able to compare only the postpregnancy health of women who have conceived using fertility treatments with that of those who did not. 鈥淏ut, of course, that crude comparison is not comparing apples to apples,鈥� says Dr. Natalie Dayan, an obstetric internist and assistant professor of medicine at 麻豆传媒网站. 鈥淚t鈥檚 comparing women with infertility who have tried multiple times and then became pregnant through A.R.T.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2019
The Men's Varsity Teams Naming Committee is asking students, staff, alumni, coaches or other athletes at 麻豆传媒网站 to send ideas for a new name after聽the committee met Nov. 26 to discuss the process after the Redmen moniker was dropped. Submissions are welcome in English or French and "should be aligned with the key values of athletics and recreation and 麻豆传媒网站: namely respect, leadership, teamwork, excellence and integrity," reads the committee's statement signed by deputy provost Fabrice Labeau and committee co-chair Hubert T. Lacroix.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2019
Michael Pollak, an oncologist and director of the 麻豆传媒网站-Jewish General Hospital Cancer Prevention Centre, says vaping should be sold by prescription and only to those trying to quit smoking.
鈥淚 would expect (vaping) to be less carcinogenic than tobacco. But the flavours, after they have been heated, are there carcinogens in there that might cause trouble five or 10 years later?
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Published on: 16 Dec 2019
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