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Posts from July 2017

Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility

Date: July 17, 2017July 26, 2017 | webmaster

How does childhood stress establish the groundwork for adult depression? Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Ludmer researcher Dr Rose Bagot found genes regulated by the transcription factor OTX2 – a protein controlling the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA – primed the response toward […]

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There’s a neuron for depression

Date: July 17, 2017July 26, 2017 | webmaster

There’s a neuron for depression or, more precisely, resiliency to the chronic stress that can cause depression. What makes some of us vulnerable to depression and others not? Is it exposure to chronic stress or a preceding susceptibility? The answer may lie in a neuron promoting resilience. Ludmer researcher Dr Rose Bagot and colleagues at […]

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New tool for head trauma assessment

Date: July 5, 2017August 29, 2017 | webmaster

A new tool, with further testing, may help clinicians rule out a history of mild head traumas as a causal factor in former athletes presenting with abnormal cognitive decline. Collectively, athletes in high-impact sports suffer up to 3.8 million sports concussions annually, leaving them vulnerable to long-term cognitive damage that only becomes apparent as they […]

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Le Centre Ludmer | The Ludmer Centre

Avec plus de 20 années d'expertise et des infrastructures de pointe, le Centre Ludmer pour la neuroinformatique et la santé mentale est un leader international de l'analyse des mégadonnées génétiques, l’épigénétique et de la recherche en imagerie cérébrale. Le centre est une collaboration de:

Leveraging over 20 years of expertise and cutting-edge infrastructure, the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health is a world leader in big-data analysis of genetic, epigenetic and brain imaging research. The centre is a collaboration of: