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The medical community may want to reconsider and review the established criteria used to diagnose autism – as the current criteria seem both inadequate and responsible for the over-diagnosis of autism that has been widely documented around the world.

Health

Using LLMs to understand how autism gets diagnosed

26 March 2025

Press release

Patricia Conrod

Community

Patricia Conrod appointed scientific director of the CIHR’s addiction institute

13 March 2025

Press release

ORS is a misperception that leads people to believe they are emitting a foul odour.

Health

Olfactory reference syndrome: when you're obsessed with your BO

27 February 2025

Article

Mental-health education has long been a cornerstone of suicide prevention.

Health

Five reasons for the decline in teen suicides in Quebec

6 February 2025

Article

The study involving 170 seniors with an average age of 76 found that O’stress, a six-week stress management program, had beneficial effects on the emotional health of participants.

Society

Innovative program helps seniors manage stress

3 February 2025

Press release

The PreVenture program is today offered in schools in five Canadian provinces as well as in 12 U.S. states.

Society

Preventing substance-use disorders in teenagers

16 January 2025

Press release

The finding underscores the need to consider vascular health in understanding dementia risk, as well as the genetic susceptibility to it that some individuals may carry.

Health

What the white spots show

21 November 2024

Article

20 per cent of the autistic children displayed an intense or exclusive interest in letters, compared with only three per cent of the non-autistic children.

Health

‘A different way of perceiving the world’

17 October 2024

Article

Dumas believes that autism is “a relational condition rather than a disorder specific to the individual.”

Health

It takes two to tango: an interpersonal perspective on autism

30 September 2024

Article

Michelle Carr

Community

Michelle Carr: Manipulating dreams to improve mental health

26 September 2024

Article

The researchers found that LGBTIQ+ individuals and their milieu of cisgender heterosexual families and friends both had significantly higher levels of biological stress markers like cortisol and cortisone in their hair during the campaign than before or after.

Society

Is holding a referendum on equality stressful for LGBTIQ+ people?

23 July 2024

Press release

Spatial cognition seems more related to sex, while verbal cognition seems more related to gender.

Society

Who does what better: a non-binary view

9 April 2024

Article

In Quebec, one in three patients who end up in the emergency room are struggling with a mental-health problem because they can’t access services or have no support network.

Health

Mental health: Taming the beast

13 March 2024

Article

When stress is chronic, adaptive responses can negatively impact the body’s cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, inflammatory and metabolic systems.

Health

Stress is higher for women in long-term relationships

19 February 2024

Article

According to Alexandre Le Bouthillier, AI solutions need to be widely implemented to increase the speed and efficiency of care.

Health

AI promises more effective healthcare

27 November 2023

Article

Community

19 Canada Research Chairs for Université de Montréal

30 August 2023

Brief

Health

When the screen harms the teen

20 January 2023

Press release

Health

Technologically assisted communication may impair brain development

17 January 2023

Article

Society

Starting kindergarten: Normal stress for the vast majority of children

7 September 2022

Article

Health

Using cannabis does impair your brain

20 January 2022

Press release

Participants were followed from the age of five months and the study was based on their responses to questionnaires collected at ages 13, 15 and 17.

Society

Cannabis: sexually diverse young people with depression use more

19 July 2021

Press release

Society

Does ‘harsh parenting’ lead to smaller brains?

22 March 2021

Press release

The online survey is for everyone but in particular men, women and people of sexual and gender diversity (LGBTQIA2+).

Society

COVID-19: the effect on the LGBTQ+ community

2 November 2020

Article

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