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There is a growing interest within the medical community in the use of psychedelic therapies to treat conditions ranging from depression and PTSD to anxiety and eating disorders. New research led by 鶹ýվ and published in has found that while adolescents under 18 might also benefit from these types of treatments, they have been excluded from current clinical research in the field due to ethical, legal and regulatory concerns.

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Published on: 4 Nov 2025

Researchers at 鶹ýվ have identifiedbacteria that can indicate whether a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom is likely to be toxic, offering a potential water-safety early warning system. Blooms are becoming more frequent due to climate change, according toprevious 鶹ýվ research. They can produce various contaminants, known as cyanotoxins, that pose serious health risks to humans, pets and wildlife.

Classified as: Lara Jansen, Jesse Shapiro, dept. of microbiology and immunology, blue-green algae, climate change
Published on: 3 Nov 2025

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by 鶹ýվ researchers.

Classified as: Massimiliano Orri, Douglas Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry
Published on: 28 Oct 2025

Homelessness services in Montreal are not well suited to the needs of 2SLGBTQ+ adults in Montreal, a study by 鶹ýվ researchers has found.

“Homelessness services are very binary, and often those who are non-binary are completely excluded,” said Jayne Malenfant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

Classified as: Faculty of Education
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Published on: 27 Oct 2025

鶹ýվ researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English-French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone or bilingual (English-French) households and who had had significant exposure to French through attending French-language school. Further, the English writing skills of the bilingual participants were found to be on par with their French writing skills.

Classified as: school of communication sciences and disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Published on: 23 Oct 2025

A team at 鶹ýվ studying ferroptosis, a form of cell death, have discovered that the process begins deep inside the cell, a finding that could lead to new treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Using antioxidant probes that light up as they are consumed, the team tracked ferroptosis in real time and identified the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) as the key cellular structure where the process first takes hold. Protecting the ER and the lysosome, they found, can halt ferroptosis entirely.

Published on: 22 Oct 2025

People who use both cannabis and tobacco show distinct brain changes compared to those who use cannabis alone, according to a new study led by 鶹ýվ researchers at the Douglas Research Centre.

may help explain why people who use both cannabis and tobacco often report increased depression and anxiety, and why quitting cannabis is harder for them than for people only using cannabis

Classified as: Rachel Rabin, Romina Mizrahi, Douglas Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, 鶹ýվ Research Centre for Cannabis
Published on: 21 Oct 2025

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, 鶹ýվ researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

Classified as: peter douglas, Faculty of Science, éٳ󲹲Ա, Montreal, greenhouse gas emissions, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, landfills, snow removal
Published on: 16 Oct 2025

A 鶹ýվ-led clinical trial is the first in humans to show online brain training exercises can improve brain networks affecting learning and memory.

The study found 10 weeks’ use of the game-like app BrainHQ by older adults enhanced cholinergic function, a chemical system in the brain that typically declines with age and influences attention, memory and decision-making.

Classified as: Étienne de Villers-Sidani, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Published on: 14 Oct 2025

鶹ýվ researchers have engineered a new hydrogel that shows early promise as a treatment for people with vocal cord injuries.

Voice loss is often permanent when scarring forms on the vocal cords. Current injectable treatments break down quickly, which can force patients to get repeated procedures that can further damage the delicate tissue.

Classified as: Maryam Tabrizian, Nicole Li-Jessen, school of communication sciences and disorders, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Published on: 10 Oct 2025

Successful sports coaches have some things in common, researchers from 鶹ýվ and the University of Queensland in Australia found. Notably, they engage in post-season introspection, focus on creating a good team culture and include their athletes in finding solutions to problems.

The researchers looked at the experiences of Canadian university-level head coaches of sports teams who had been at that level for at least 15 years and had records of success, including having won championships, but who then experienced a poor season.

Classified as: Faculty of Education, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
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Published on: 8 Oct 2025

Researchers at 鶹ýվ’s (CGP) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide to help Canadian health-care providers offer more inclusive, respectful and affirming care to intersex adults.

Classified as: Centre for Genomics and Policy, Terese Knoppers, Yann Joly, intersex, queer history month, health communication
Published on: 3 Oct 2025

Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new 鶹ýվ-led published in npj Urban Sustainability.

Published on: 3 Oct 2025

The Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie du Québec today announced an investment of $2 million to fund a technical plan for the functioning of the Centre de collaboration et d’innovation en aérospatiale et mobilité (CCIAM). Led by the cluster within the innovation zone – created by the Government of Quebec in 2024 – the CCIAM is a flagship research and innovation infrastructure project.

Classified as: CCIAM, aerospace, Aéro Montréal, Espace Aéro
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Published on: 3 Oct 2025

Researchers in 鶹ýվ’shave developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric fields, offers scientists unprecedented control over how DNA behaves in real time, creating the opportunity for faster, more precise molecular analysis that could improve diagnostics, genome mapping and the study of disease-related molecules.

Classified as: Matheus Azevedo Silva Pessôa, Sara Mahshid, Walter Reisner, nanofluids, nanobiophysics, bioengineering
Published on: 2 Oct 2025

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