Ludmer Center for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health
3661, rue University H3A 2B4 Montreal, QC, Canada

A great new study out of the Bagot Lab! Whether stress leads to depression could be determined by how your brain is wired! Dr. Bagot and her team studied the link between the activity of the hippocampus/nucleus accumbens pathway, the response to chronic stress, and the risk of anxiety and depression. The results were recently published in the prestigious journal Biological Psychiatry. ... Highlight: High activity in those brain regions in mice could lead to higher stress susceptibility and depression-like behaviours. McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Integrated Program in Neuroscience See all the details here:

Proud to be part of EEGNet, launching today, by the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, CERVO Brain research Centre Université Laval and Brock University. Supported by Brain Canada and Vera Gross, in collaboration with NeuroLibre, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and McGill University. #research #neuroscience #openscience

Virtual Symposium for the World Maternal Mental Health Day, May 5th, 2021. We are proud to join forces with the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative for the organization of this great symposium on Perinatal Mental Health. Registration is open! Full Program on the Eventbrite page and on Ludmercentre.ca... The symposium will feature presentations by Simone Vigod from from Women's College Hospital Dr. Alain Grégoire from the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health Dr. Tuong-Vi Nguyen from McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and many others. Join us for this fabulous day!

Inflammation markers in a child's saliva may predict how they will react to their caregiver's stress, from impaired emotional functioning to ADHD. A new study from Ludmer PI, Dr. Patricia Silveira and her team. Les marqueurs d'inflammation présents dans la salive des enfants pourraient aider à prédire comment ceux-ci réagiront au stress perçu par leur proches aidants, d'un dysfonctionnement émotionel en passant par le TDAH. Une nouvelle étude de Dr. Patricia Silveira du Centr...e Ludmer. https://www.sciencedirect.com//a/abs/pii/S0889159121000908 McGill University #neuroscience #BrainWeek #inflammation

Throwback to last November. Ludmer PIs Dr. Alan Evans and Dr. Michael Meaney made the list of Highly-cited Researchers by Clarivate Web of Science and are thus among the top 1% by citations of their research. Congratulations to all 13 McGill University researchers who made the cut!

Did you know that Calcul Québec offers a wide range of training sessions about Advanced Research Computing, both in English and French? Check their lineup for March and April. Coming soon: Introduction to Programming in Python. ... Calcul Comm Québec

Software security needs to be on the minds of all researchers. Old software components and the inclusion of unnecessary code created a massive attack surface area in containers for scientific analysis, according to Tristan Glatard. We recommend reading this interview on his recent publication. Prof Glatard is an Associate Professor is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) on Big Data Infrastructures for Neuroinformatics at Concordia University and an Adjunct Professor at the McGill CS - School of Computer Science and Adjunct Researcher @LudmerCentre . He developed Boutiques. a flexible framework for automated application integration in computing platforms. https://www.darkreading.com//containers-for/d/d-id/1339372

Mom-to-be’s well-being: why it matters ~ The Montreal Antenatal Well-Being Study led Dr. Kieran O’Donnell argues for better mental health support for women during pregnancy, as it can have vital and lasting effects on the brain health of their children. http://ow.ly/dJXk50C0VMY

Researchers and students working with genomic data from large data sets, don't miss this free workshop on using the newest methodology for developing biologically informed Polygenic Risk Scores (ePRS). Register and help share this message about the workshop.

Check out the latest QLS lecture: Statistical laws of protein motion in neuronal dendritic trees by Tatjana Tchumatchenko from the Max Planck Institute http://ludmercentre.ca/qls-seminar-videos

Double congratulations to Budhachandra Singh Khundrakpam. A Ludmer researcher at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), he recently won a prestigious Young Investigator award from the New York-based Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) for a two-year project, the Impact of substance use on adolescent brain development and mental health outcomes. A paper he co-authored also made this month’s cover of the journal Hippocampus, which shows an image from the paper: Altered hippocampal centrality and dynamic anatomical covariance of intracortical microstructure in first episode psychosis first author Carolina Makowski. Dr Khundrakpam is a research associate in the Ludmer Centre’s neuroimaging pillar, led by Ludmer Centre Scientific Director Alan Evans. https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mni-research-associate-wins-pres