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Dr. Michael E. Mann Public Environment Lecture

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:44:27 +0000

The �鶹��ý��վ Bieler School of Environment is excited to invite you to a free annual lecture, this year with Presidential and Distinguished Professor, Dr. Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania.

Availability of respite care almost triples a palliative care patient’s chance of dying at home

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:40:19 +0000

Access to respite services for family caregivers increases a palliative care patient’s probability of dying at home almost threefold, according to a �鶹��ý��վ-led study.

Previous surveys suggest most Canadians with a serious illness would prefer to spend the end of their lives at home. In Quebec, fewer than one-in-10 palliative care patients die at home, a rate that has remained largely unchanged for two decades and lags behind the Canadian average of 15 per cent.

Taylor Owen Appointed to Government of Canada AI Strategy Task Force

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:42:44 +0000

September 26, 2025 | Taylor Owen, Max Bell Professor at �鶹��ý��վ and Founding Director of the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, has been appointed to the Government of Canada’s AI Strategy Task Force. The Task Force, composed of experts from industry, academia, and civil society, will provide advice to the Government of Canada on its renewed AI strategy. Taylor Owen will contribute his expertise to advancing safe AI systems and strengthening public confidence in their use.

6th National Course on Sleep Medicine

admin — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:46:27 +0000

This two-day training course is designed to provide and enhance a basic working knowledge of sleep medicine.

George Karpati Lecture 2026

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:37:58 +0000

The Annual George Karpati Lecture commemorates a world-renowned neurologist and clinician-scientist who spent his extraordinary career at The Neuro.

iPSC Seminars: Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU)

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:32:34 +0000

THE NEURO'S EDDU iPSC SEMINAR SERIES

Modeling α-Synuclein Pathology Spreading in a 3D Human Midbrain-Striatal Assembloid

Dorothy J. Killam Lecture 2026

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:47:15 +0000

The Neuro's Dorothy J.

Neuro Epilepsy Lecture Series: The Neurophysiological Basis of Internal Attention

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:36:41 +0000

The 2024-2025 Neuro Epilepsy Lecture Series will include eight lectures covering hot topics in basic and clinical epilepsy research.

Albert Aguayo Lecture 2026

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:23:12 +0000

This annual lecture honours Dr. Albert Aguayo, OC, FRCP, Professor Emeritus founder and former Director of the Centre for the Research in Neuroscience at �鶹��ý��վ. A cocktail reception will follow the lecture.

8th National Neuromuscular Review Course

admin — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:08:29 +0000

Dr. Nicolas Dupré of Laval University, Dr. Karine Garneau of Université de Montréal, and the members of the organizing committee are pleased to announce the 8th National Neuromuscular Review Course.

Neuro Epilepsy Day and Pierre Gloor Lecture 2026

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:57:16 +0000

Hughlings Jackson Lecture 2025: The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:40:52 +0000

Established in 1935, the Hughlings Jackson Lecture is The Neuro’s premier scientific lecture. It honours the legacy of British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty.

Childhood overeating can be a harbinger of later mental health struggles in girls, study finds

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:28:47 +0000

Girls who overeat regularly in the preschool years are more likely to experience anxiety, impulsivity and hyperactivity in adolescence, according to a new study led by researchers at �鶹��ý��վ and the Douglas Research Centre.

Pearl Eliadis on the Advisory Committee’s Controversial Secularism Proposals | Daybreak Montreal

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:27:40 +0000

August 27, 2025 | On Daybreak Montreal with Sean Henry, Pearl Eliadis said Quebec’s new secularism proposals mark a fundamental shift in the province’s legal and constitutional framework. The proposals come from a government advisory committee tasked with reviewing how the province’s secularism law is applied and how it could be expanded.

Anil Wasif on Confronting Institutional Decay After the Dhaka School Tragedy | Policy Magazine

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:44:57 +0000

July 23, 2025 | Anil Wasif, MPP ’21, writes in Policy Magazine about the painful disconnect between high-level development discourse and lived tragedy, reflecting on the deadly crash of a military jet into a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh that claimed 32 lives. Writing from the World Bank’s Annual Conference on Development Economics, where he was attending as a Government Analytics fellow, Wasif describes how the academic conversation on institutional decay and populist anger mirrored the catastrophic reality unfolding in his home country.