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Currently, doctors rely primarily on monitoring a child's early developmental milestones, such as acquiring language and walking, to predict their later development.

Health

Trying to predict how an autistic child will develop cognitively

22 April 2025

Press release

Patricia Conrod

Community

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

13 March 2025

Press release

Benoît Mâsse, Caroline Quach-Thanh and Andrés Finzi

Science

The pandemic: a pause in research or a springboard?

11 March 2025

Article

In total, 15,000 genomes will be sequenced from data collected from families living with an undiagnosed rare disease.

Health

Genomic sequencing, a powerful ally against rare diseases

5 March 2025

Press release

Harmonization of MRI results is a central issue for research and health-care quality.

Health

"Harmonizing" the MRIs

28 February 2025

Press release

The study is the first to identify and characterize childhood ALL survivors with possible aLQTS using maximal exercise testing.

Health

Chemotherapy side effects can include risks to the heart

13 February 2025

Press release

The results from this study also show that certain genetic duplications have a protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders.

Health

Cognitive abilities: mapping the impact of DNA modifications

30 January 2025

Press release

According to the study, one notable finding was that physical activity affected academic outcomes differently for boys and girls.

Society

Organized sports can lead to academic success

16 January 2025

Article

The decontamination study was part of a unique monitoring program that was set up in 2010 at CHU Sainte-Justine.

Health

Decontaminating the arms of oncology chairs to protect patients and healthcare workers

3 December 2024

Article

Allophone children who attended daycare show better cognitive development, improved social and emotional skills, and greater communication abilities.

Health

Preschool education: A key to supporting allophone children

28 November 2024

Press release

Marc-André Legault

Health

Marc-André Legault: Optimizing drug therapy with bioinformatics

11 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

Stress granules are clusters of proteins that assemble inside cells exposed to stressful conditions and enable the cell to survive.

Health

Stress granules play an unsuspected role in blood vessel formation

23 July 2024

Article

Offered by the Montreal non-profit organization MU, Art en tête was born in response to needs identified in schools and launched through an innovative, long-term collaboration between community members, hospitals, school sand universities.

Community

Making mural art helps teens cope

8 April 2024

Article

Florence Deguire’s work opens up the possibility of detecting neurodevelopmental abnormalities that are currently not diagnosed until age four or five.

Science

Cognitive performance at age four can be predicted in infancy

22 March 2024

Article

Miriam Beauchamp and Dominique Dupont

Health

Concussions in young children: symptoms still present three months later

21 March 2024

Article

Certain aromas seem to have a positive effect on performance and may even reduce perceived effort.

Health

Can smells improve your athletic performance?

16 February 2024

Article

The ring-shaped heart tissues are printed with a bioink containing a patient's stem cells.

Health

A "heart on a chip"

14 February 2024

Press release

This study opens up new avenues for research and non-pharmacological approaches to improving the health of people born preterm, and underscores the importance of taking preterm birth into account in medical care at all ages.

Health

Prematurity may later impact cardiovascular and muscular health

24 January 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

The study shows that the brain's hemispheres asymmetry changes with age, and that each region of the cortex and each hemisphere thins at a different rate.

Health

Probing teenagers' lopsided brains

1 November 2023

Article

Health

AI use in pharmacotherapy still in the early stages

21 June 2023

Article

Community

The Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) receives $5.6M

24 May 2023

Press release

A comparison of two related plants: quinoa (left) and, grown from seeds collected in Montreal, C. berlandieri (right).

Science

The genome of a lost crop is explored

15 March 2023

Article

Society

Starting kindergarten: Normal stress for the vast majority of children

7 September 2022

Article

Science

Does language acquisition begin before birth?

17 August 2022

Article

Health

How risky is taking medications during pregnancy?

31 March 2022

Press release

Health

Decrease in relapses of Crohn's disease in youth

23 March 2022

Press release

Health

Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis: everything unfolds in the brain shortly after birth

23 June 2021

Press release

In 2017, all Québec 5-year-olds enrolled full time in kindergarten – about 80,000 children – took the Québec Survey of Child Development in Kindergarten conducted by the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ).

Health

How is COVID-19 affecting our kids? Children’s Health and Education Observatory gets $5M

14 June 2021

Article

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