If Canadians living with a mental illness could access better treatments, annually upwards of 352,000 Canadians living with depression or anxiety could re-enter the workforce as productive employees. “This highlights the fact that there is a [return on investment], there is a gain for the employer in acting on mental health in the workplace,” said […]
McGill University will launch an ambitious effort to advance understanding of the human brain and ease the burden of neurological and mental-health disorders, thanks to an $84 million, seven-year grant announced today under the federal government’s Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF). Totaling over $213 million across three institutions – Montreal will be one of […]
Women who reported higher levels of childhood adversity combined with higher levels of self-reported depressive symptoms are significantly more likely to live in low socio-economic environments. A new collaborative study, which included Ludmer Centre researchers A. Bouvette-Turcot, E. Unternaehrer, H. Gaudreau and M. Meaney, suggest that Socio-economic status is influenced by a life-course-pathway that begins […]
Are you are in Dublin on August 31st? Dr O’Donnell is giving a keynote address at “Preparing for Life: The Results” Ireland’s longest running random control study of an early intervention programme. Read more
Congratulation Dr Kieran O’Donnell – principal investigator at the Ludmer Centre – named a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) global scholar. Read more
In the first study to use ex vivo structural MRI and DTI to detect differences in local-brain-volume and tissue-diffusion properties associated with stress susceptibility/resilience, a team of researchers from Canada, USA and Singapore, including Ludmer Centre researchers (Meaney, O’Donnell, Bagot), found that stress-integrative brain regions shape the neural architecture underlying individual differences in susceptibility/resilience to […]
To advance mental health research, the Centre participates in multidisciplinary research cadres globally to maximize its neuroinformatics infrastructure and longitudinal cohort study MAVAN. Supported by a CIHR Grant, the Centre’s statistical genetics and epigenetics expertise and Dr Ashley Wazana’s team of researchers hope, in the next 5 years, to identify psychiatric diagnoses at age 13 […]
A new study underscores the importance of identifying and preventing prenatal symptoms of depression to prevent the development of childhood psychopathology. The study utilized the Ludmer Centre’s longitudinal cohort study, MAVAN, and involved four of its researchers Michael J. Meaney, John Lydon, Helene Gaudreau, Ashley Wazana as well as other collaborators, including first author Cathryn […]
The Ludmer Centre hosted Dr Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, Director of the Joint China-Cuba Lab for Frontiers Research in Translational Neurotechnology in Chengdu (China) and Vice Director of Research at the Cuban Neuroscience Center in Habana (Cuba). During his visit, Dr Valdes-Sosa presented his latest research : “Matrix-Tensor network methods for Brain Connectivity” and “Multimodal quantitative […]
Identifying rare variants in health and disease is the goal of many genetic studies. Phenotypes associated with the disease sometimes include many physiological measures. Many times these measures are themselves correlated adding to the complexity of multiple testing. Celia Greenwood, Scientific Director of the Ludmer Centre, and a team of researchers have developed of a […]