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The face of loneliness is changing. Today, it doesn’t just affect elderly shut-ins, recluses and explorers of remote climes, the extreme cases with which it has traditionally been associated.

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Loneliness is spreading. What can sociology tell us about it?

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Veterinary medicine

Anxious cats prone to recurring cystitis

UdeM’s veterinarians reveal that anxiety plays a key role in feline idiopathic cystitis, an inflammation of the bladder, highlighting the importance of reducing the stress that cats sometimes feel.

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Optometry

'Deafblindness': more than meets the eye and ear

Walter Wittich is the scientific director of an international initiative that has developed a comprehensive set of biopsychosocial criteria for people with little or no hearing and little or no sight.

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Cats have brain activity recorded with the help of crocheted hats.

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Perinatal transmission of HPV: Encouraging new data

May 22, 2023
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Pregnant women who have HPV rarely transmit it to their baby, and when they do, the infection does not persist.

anthropology

Children from mixed backgrounds with one Muslim parent have plural identities

May 19, 2023
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Quebec-born children with one Muslim immigrant parent forge identities that mix that parent’s cultural references and Quebec culture.

Cell biology

Vitamin K helps protect against diabetes

May 19, 2023
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After 15 years of basic research, researchers at UdeM and the IRCM identify a new role for the blood-clotting micronutrient in helping to prevent a disease affecting one in 11 people.

Cybersecurity

Launch of the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC2)

May 18, 2023
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Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and HEC Montréal team up to create a global cybersecurity structure.

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NEUROSCIENCES

Mimicking brain plasticity in children to control PTS

May 18, 2023
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A CHU Sainte-Justine team led by UdeM neuroscientist Graziella Di Cristo has made an important breakthrough in the treatment of people suffering from symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress.

ASTROPHYSICS

Found: a likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System

May 17, 2023
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Astronomers from Université de Montréal have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet around a nearby small red dwarf star that appears to be carpeted with volcanoes.

A new UNESCO Chair in Open Science at Université de Montréal

May 16, 2023
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New Chair Vincent Larivière will lead a team in examining the free movement of knowledge.

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Public health

Katherine Frohlich to take up a new role

May 15, 2023
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The UdeM public-health specialist has been named scientific director of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research's Institute of Population and Public Health, for a four-year term starting next fall

Neurology

Found: the mutated gene behind mirror movement disorder

May 15, 2023
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In an advance that could pave the way for better diagnostics, Canadian scientists identify a new genetic mutation thought to cause the rare condition, which impairs coordination.

OPHTAMOLOGY

New hope for vision regeneration

May 5, 2023
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Researchers led by UdeM's Michel Cayouette have found a way to reactivate dormant cells in the retina and transform them to ultimately replace cells lost in retinal degeneration.

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