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In 2009, Sébastien Sauvé felt he was on to something big. Newswise — A professor of environmental chemistry at Université de Montréal, he started focusing on compounds that were virtually unknown to the general public: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS. “I started my research career by analyzing heavy metals in contaminated soil…
Newswise — Affecting one in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. “HCM is one of the primary causes of sudden death among young, apparently healthy patients; it is also a frequent cause of heart failure requiring surgery or…
Are people with attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) more likely to listen to background music while performing daily tasks? Kelly-Ann Lachance, a doctoral student in clinical neuropsychology at Université de Montréal, decided to find out. She and her supervisor, neuropsychologist and psychology professor Nathalie Gosselin, analyzed the responses of 434 young adults…
Members of the Université de Montréal community have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. Seven received theirs last Dec. 7 in a ceremony at HEC Montréal presided over by Quebec’s lieutenant-governor, Manon Jeannotte. Commemorating the crowning of the former Prince of Wales in 2022, the medal recognizes Canadians who have made significant contributions…
First, the good news: after a couple of years, most Quebecers who use a food bank for the first time will no longer need to do so. Now the bad news: 40 per cent will, and will keep coming back regularly or occasionally. That’s the finding of a study by a team of researchers from…
“I feel like I’ve aged all of a sudden; I don’t know where life went.” That’s how one Canadian university student, a 21-year-old communications major in Montreal, describes spending the long months of the COVID-19 pandemic at home with his partner. For many young adults, the period between early 2020 and the spring of 2023…
When do you make your bed? In the morning when you get up? Well, if you were a chimpanzee – our closest genetic relative, with about 99 per cent of our DNA – you’d more likely make it at dusk, just before you go to sleep for the night. Primatologists call it “nest building.” In…
Newswise — Carino Gurjao, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UdeM, joins IRIC’s Genomic and Integrative Medicine Research Unit as a principal investigator. His training background is impressive: he conducted research projects at Institut Curie, MIT, and Harvard (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute). At the University of Paris, his doctoral thesis demonstrated,…
Newswise — So-called “active desks” – sit/stand desks, desk bikes with pedals (known as cycling desks) and traditional stationary bikes – are increasingly being made available in schools and workplaces. Unfortunately, however, they rarely come with proper instructions on how to use them. “It’s a bit like pedometers 20 years ago: the hope was that…
The virtual-reality (VR) cognitive-training tool NeuroTracker, also known as 3D-MOT, does not enhance the performance of teenage elite athletes on the field, according to a new study led by Université de Montréal adjunct professor of optometry Thomas Romeas. In his study, published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Romeas, who heads the research-and-innovation department at…
