Danilo Bzdok

Night owl or early bird? Study finds sleep categories aren’t that simple

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:28:43 +0000

The familiar labels “night owl” and “early bird,” long used in sleep research, don’t fully capture the diversity of human internal clocks, a new study has found.

The �鶹��ý��վ-led study published in Nature Communications found the two sleep-wake patterns, called chronotypes, contain a total of five distinct biological subtypes, each associated with different patterns of behaviour and health.

AI analysis challenges autism diagnosis criteria

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:53:45 +0000

An analysis of digital health records using large language models (LLMs) is challenging a long-held belief about the clinical identifiers of autism.

A new study led by researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of �鶹��ý��վ and Mila Quebec AI Institute found that social communication factors may not be as important in identifying the condition as previously believed.

Uncovering the relationship between lifestyle, personality and brain structure

shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:50:04 +0000

Danilo Bzdok, a researcher at The Neuro, �鶹��ý��վ’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, uses machine learning to identify patterns in human neurological and psychological data. One of his team’s recent studies analyzed personality profiles, demographic status and social lifestyle from a cohort of 40,000 UK Biobank middle aged participants. Their research focused on how these factors are related to each other and to brain structure.

Danilo Bzdok

frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:52:44 +0000