By disrupting postnatal development in GABAergic interneurons, a genetic mutation appears to be at the origin of the neurological disorders associated with a disease affecting one in 6,000 children.
The Quebec government has awarded Université de Montréal $13 million to support the creation of Médicament Québec, an initiative that aims to revitalize the province's pharmaceutical industry.
The Children’s Health and Education Observatory has received a $5 million Fonds de recherche du Québec grant to study the pandemic’s impact on children and support more effective intervention.
CRCHUM scientists Christine Vande Velde and Geneviève Matte work on multiple ways to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. For ALS Awareness Month, they give an overview of their research projects.
Concussions can have harmful consequences for toddlers. An UdeM research team has developed a tool to detect them in children who do not yet speak or have a limited vocabulary.
UdeM medical professor Jean-Claude Tardif comments on the publication in a peer-reviewed journal of his COLCORONA study, which looked at using an inexpensive anti-inflammatory drug to treat COVID-19.