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People skipping doctors and using CBD oil for bipolar disorder 'not treated at all,' warns expert
"A lot of patients have contacted me from all over Canada, and [are] using cannabidiol to treat depression, bipolar disorder," said Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatrist at 's faculty of medicine and the Health Centre.
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Au moment où les jeux vidéo commencent à être implantés dans certaines écoles secondaires québécoises par le biais de programmes inspirés des sports-études, Véronique Bohbot, professeure au Département de psychiatrie de l'Université , tire la sonnette d'alarme. La chercheuse à l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale Douglas ne s'explique pas cette décision, qui ne suit pas les recommandations des associations de pédiatres du Canada et des États-Unis. Véronique Bohbot explique que certains types de jeux vidéo peuvent atrophier l'hippocampe, et ainsi, endommager la matière grise.
Pas de doute: les jeux vidéo, c’est du sérieux. Faut-il pour autant les intégrer au programme scolaire? C’est beaucoup moins certain. Québec devrait d’abord s’intéresser à l’impact des écrans sur les jeunes, comme l’a proposé récemment le député André Fortin.
Les écrans ne sont pas seulement interactifs, ils sont aussi adhésifs. Comment en décoller les enfants est une préoccupation constante pour de nombreux parents, y compris l’été. Tout ce temps passé à jouer et à regarder des vidéos est-il dommageable?
For almost as long as we’ve known about the powerful spell opium can cast on a user, scientists have been trying to learn precisely how the drug operates in the body, particularly in the brain. According to recent Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series guest Dr. Brigitte Kieffer, researchers are closer than ever to understanding, witnessing, mimicking and perhaps predicting opioids’ work within the gray matter.
Une vision différente du trouble
«On ne devient pas anorexique parce qu’on est faible mais parce que des évènements de la vie ont déclenché des ressorts génétiques et épigénétiques»
Pr Howard Steiger
The FRSQ recently announced the results of the 2019-2020 funding competition for Intersectoral research on aging. In all, over $8.19M were awarded.
DrsPedro Rosa Neto and Serge Gauthierreceived over $1,44 M for their project, Biomarkers of aging and dementia: BioVie.
Congratulations!
The Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize will be awarded to ’s Gustavo Turecki, who has advanced our understanding of how early life adversity changes the brain to influence suicide and depression. Each prize is valued at $50,000, making them among the most prestigious honours bestowed by a Canadian university. The recipients were chosen by a committee of international experts chaired by Robert McMaster, Executive Associate Dean, Research, and Deborah Money, Executive Vice Dean.
Fabrice Jollant () looked to isolated groups with very high rates of suicide for clues, such as the Palawan of a particular valley in the Philippines. His was a more genetic and neurobiological perspective, considering changes during the suicidal crisis and how to relieve psychological pain quickly (perhaps unsurprisingly ketamine appears to be quite effective).
The Psychologist
Almost 30 years ago, the U.SNational Institute of Health declared the 1990s "the decade of the brain."Since then, considerable funding has been devoted topsychiatricresearch exploring various aspects of brain science.
Some scholars have argued that this was a nodal point in the history of psychiatry, marking a reorientationfrom a biopsychosocial model to a "bio-bio-bio model,"which remains dominant today. This emphasizes three factors:neuroscience, psychiatricgeneticsandpsychopharmacology.
PRIZE WINNERS for Research Day 2019
Students from Douglas Institute Research Centre -
Oral Presentations:
- 1st Prize (Prix d'excellence du FRQ-S): Scott Bell (Carl Ernst lab)
- 2nd Prize: Amanda Larosa (Tak Pan Wong lab)
- 3rd Prize: Malosree Maitra (Gustavo Turecki lab)
Poster presentations:
- 1st Prize: Claudia Belliveau (Naguib Mechawar lab)
- 2nd Prize: Rixing Lin (Gustavo Turecki lab)
Les enfants fatigués peuvent éprouver des difficultés à pratiquer des sports. Ils bougent moins-et moins ils bougent, pire est leur sommeil», écrit l'auteure, Dre Reut Gruber.
Lire l'opinion .
Behind the smartphone apps that power your daily life, chances are you have a picture that means something to you. You may have chosen your pet to be your background photo, for example. And those apps on your home screen? You may have organized them alphabetically or by colour. This personalization process can say a lot about who we are and what we value.
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Opinions
Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain.
By M.R. O'Connor
June 5 at 5:56 PM
M.R. O’Connor is a journalist who writes about science, technology and ethics, and is the author, most
recently, of “Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World.”
It has become the most natural thing to do: get in the car, type a destination into a smartphone, and let an
algorithm using GPS data show the way. Personal GPS-equipped devices entered the mass market in only the