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- Exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20131111-exercise-during-pregnancy-gives-newborn-brain-development-a-head-start.html 17 comments
- Many gifted children fail academically http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news-digest/many-gifted-children-fail-academically.html 117 comments
- Researchers developed a neurobiological model that predicts facial expressions elicited by painful stimuli. Using machine-learning algorithms trained on magnetic resonance brain imaging data, they created a Facial Expression Pain Signature https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/12/04/facial-expressions-of-pain-can-be-predicted-from-brain-activity/ 8 comments science
- A study on young people under 16 shows that THC from cannabis causes shrinkage in the dendritic arborization, the neuron's "network of antennas" crucial for communication. This can lead to the atrophy of certain regions of the cerebral cortex https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/10/23/cannabis-use-in-adolescence-visible-effects-on-brain-structure/ 157 comments science
- Recording the cats in the hats: In a world first, veterinary scientists have found a way to scan the brains of cats while they’re awake, using electrodes concealed under specially knitted wool caps, electrodes that cats normally shake off when being tested for chronic pain. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/09/25/recording-the-cats-in-the-hats/ 24 comments science
- Research found not only are the physiological responses of older couples to environmental stress linked in the moment, but this association persists after four years, suggesting that the psychosocial and physiological state of each partner has long-term impacts on the other https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/02/19/stress-is-higher-for-women-in-long-term-relationships/ 2 comments science
- In a scientific first, researchers have established a close link between brain activity and a maturation process called cortical thinning, this uncover how the brain matures in adolescence https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2023/11/01/probing-teenagers-lopsided-brains/ 11 comments science
- New insights into the atmosphere and star of an exoplanet https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2023/09/25/new-insights-into-the-atmosphere-and-star-of-an-exoplanet/ 2 comments science
- Obesity linked to macular degeneration https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2023/01/10/obesity-linked-to-macular-degeneration 19 comments health
- When conditions in their bacteria colony deteriorate, use of a ‘programmed cell death mechanism’ causes some bacteria cells to sacrifice themselves, stimulating relocation of the colony to survive https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2022/12/09/life-and-death-of-an-altruistic-bacterium/ 6 comments science
- Two exoplanets identified as twin ‘water worlds’, each enveloped with water vapor https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2022/12/15/universite-de-montreal-astronomers-find-that-two-exoplanets-may-be-mostly-water/ 23 comments science
- The unique way that ground squirrels burn almost no energy when they hibernate – with no loss of muscle mass – has implications for space travel, new study finds. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2022/01/27/what-wintering-squirrels-can-teach-astronauts/ 41 comments science
- The James Webb telescope: part alien life detector, part time machine https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2021/12/09/the-james-webb-telescope-part-alien-life-detector-part-time-machine/ 10 comments space
- Using archeology to better understand climate change. Team of anthropologists, geographers and earth scientists looks to the past to assess how different cultures have – and will – adapt to global warming. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2021/07/20/using-archeology-to-better-understand-climate-change/ 5 comments science
- Harsh parenting practices, such as repeatedly getting angry, hitting, shaking or yelling at children, is linked with smaller brain structures in adolescence, finds a new study. The harsh parenting practices covered by the study are common and even considered socially acceptable around the world. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2021/03/22/does-harsh-parenting-lead-to-smaller-brains/ 495 comments science
- The mystery of the superlight core of WASP-107b exoplanet https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2021/01/18/a-super-puff-planet-like-no-other/ 4 comments space
- Watching a lot of porn: not a mental-health issue. It is more the interaction between different individual personality characteristics and social and societal contexts that can lead to frequent and problematic use of pornography https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2020/05/13/watching-a-lot-of-porn-not-a-mental-health-issue/ 12 comments science
- Adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.. http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/24/-d994f54a11/ 3 comments science
- Cannabis: it matters how young you start - Researchers find that boys who start smoking pot before 15 are much more likely to have a drug problem at 28 than those who start at 15 or after, according to new research (n=1,030) in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/05/18/cannabis-it-matters-how-young-you-start/ 5 comments science
- Difference between people with autism and rest of the population is shrinking. If this trend holds, the objective difference between people with autism and the general population will disappear in less than 10 years. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2019/08/21/is-it-autism-the-line-is-being-increasingly-blurred/ 117 comments science
- Five- and six-year-old boys and girls who are inattentive in kindergarten are more likely to report lower incomes when they reach 33 to 35 years of age, finds a new study (n=2,850). However, the most "pro-social" boys (those who help others) are headed for careers that pay more than the average. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2019/06/18/inattentive-children-earn-less-money-when-they-grow-up/ 9 comments science
- Children from low-income families who got intensive education early in life treat others with high levels of fairness in midlife, more than 40 years later, even when being fair comes at a high personal cost, according to a new study published today in Nature Communications. https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/11/20/being-fair-the-benefits-of-early-childhood-education/ 407 comments science
- Cannabis: it matters how young you start - Researchers find that boys who start smoking pot before 15 are much more likely to have a drug problem at 28 than those who start at 15 or after, according to new research (n=1,030) in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2018/05/18/cannabis-it-matters-how-young-you-start/ 1391 comments science
- Adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis. http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/24/-d994f54a11/ 5 comments science
- Adolescents who are frequent marijuana users are at increased risk of having recurrent psychotic-like experiences, according to a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/07/05/marijuana-can-increase-a-teenager-srisk-of-psychosis/ 56 comments science
- Video games can be beneficial or detrimental to your brain depending on the navigation strategy and the genre of the game, neuroscientists show in new study http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/08/07/playing-action-video-games-can-actually-harm-your-brain/ 245 comments science
- Adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis. http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/24/-d994f54a11/ 5062 comments science
- The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed: Anthropologists have dated the oldest human settlement in Canada back 10,000 years http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/13/the-first-humans-arrived-in-north-america-much-earlier-than-thought/ 3 comments science
- Self-help books - stressed readers or stressful reading: Consumers of self-help books are more sensitive to stress and show higher depressive symptomatology, according to a new study http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20151117-self-help-books-stressed-readers-or-stressful-reading.html 6 comments science
- A new study shows that while video game players exhibit more efficient visual attention abilities, they are also much more likely to use navigation strategies that rely on the brain's reward system (the caudate nucleus) and not the brain's spatial memory system (the hippocampus). http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20150521-what-impact-do-video-games-have-on-the-brain.html 3 comments science
- Men's diets are related to local offerings, unlike women's http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20150106-mens-diets-are-related-to-local-offerings-unlike-womens.html 156 comments science
- Stone Age man wasn't necessarily more advanced than the Neanderthals http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20150114-stone-age-man-wasnt-necessarily-more-advanced-than-the-neanderthals.html 22 comments science
- Prostate cancer risk reduced by sleeping with many women, but increased with many men: Compared to men who have had only one partner during their lifetime, having sex with more than 20 women is associated with a 28% lower risk of one day being diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to researchers http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20141028-prostate-cancer-risk-reduced-by-sleeping-with-many-women-but-increased-with-many-men.html 10 comments science
- Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it: According to researchers at the University of Montreal, the regions of the brain below the cortex play an important role as we train our bodies' movements and, critically, they interact more effectively after a night of sleep. http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20140821-learning-to-play-the-piano-sleep-on-it.html 3 comments science
- ADHD, substance abuse and conduct disorder develop from the same neurocognitive deficits http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20140812-adhd-substance-abuse-and-conduct-disorder-develop-from-the-same-neurocognitive-deficits.html 3 comments science
- Smokers' brains biased against negative images of smoking: A recent study showed that chronic smokers have altered emotional reactions when they are exposed to negative and positive images associated with tobacco http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20140310-smokers-brains-biased-against-negative-images-of-smoking.html 16 comments science
- University of Montreal researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that can potentially slow the progression of some cancers and other diseases of abnormal growth http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20130523-scientists-discover-how-rapamycin-slows-cell-growth.html 4 comments science
- New study reveals that every single junk food meal damages your arteries. A single junk food meal – composed mainly of saturated fat – is detrimental to the health of the arteries http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20121030-new-study-reveals-that-every-single-junk-food-meal-damages-your-arteries.html 80 comments science
- Many gifted children fail academically... http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news-digest/many-gifted-children-fail-academically.html 54 comments reddit.com
- Earth’s original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/press-releases/earth-s-original-ancestor-was-luca-not-adam-nor-eve.html 36 comments science