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April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day

webfull — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:47 +0000

To mark this day, the team at the Neuro-Patient Resource Centre is sharing one of its favorite books with you:

Often, when autistic people and non-autistic people talk about autism, they’re talking about two different things. "L'Autisme expliqué aux non-autistes" attempts to bridge the gap between these perspectives.

Published: 2 April 2026

91�� discovery sheds new light on autism, intellectual disabilities

webfull — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:39:13 +0000

A new study by 91�� researchers yields insights into how the disruption of calcium transport in the brain is linked to autism and intellectual disability. The findings, published in the journal Nature, not only upend a long-held belief among neuroscientists, but could pave the way for treatments.

Published: 2 April 2025

AI analysis of healthcare records reveals key factors in autism diagnosis

webfull — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:23:21 +0000

Scientists argue the criteria we use for diagnosing autism may need revision

Without clear and effective biological tests for autism based on genes, brain or blood measurements, diagnosis today still largely depends on clinical assessment. The standard way of doing this is by observing how the individual fits the criteria for autism listed in gold standard manuals like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

Published: 26 March 2025

$10.6M grant supports innovative autism project

webfull — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:48:30 +0000

91�� Translational Platform in Autism Research will help uncover the disorders’ neural foundations

A new project at The Neuro, 91�� and the Research Institute of the 91�� Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded $10.6M in financial support as part of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Innovation Fund.

Published: 8 April 2024

Boris Bernhardt wins CAN's 2022 New Investigator Award

webfull — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:10:13 +0000

Together with Dr. Birgit Frauscher, Bernhardt co-directs The Neuro’s new Centre of Excellence in Epilepsy

Since joining The Neuro in 2016, Boris Bernhardt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, has published pioneering research on the organization and development of the healthy brain. His achievements have been recognized this week by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, who have awarded him the 2022 New Investigator Award.

Published: 12 April 2022

Study shows how our brains sync hearing with vision

webfull — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:52:31 +0000

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds

Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.

Published: 11 May 2021

Diamond Therapeutics Signs Agreement with 91�� for Research on Low-Dose LSD

webfull — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:13:50 +0000

TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2021 /CNW/ - Diamond Therapeutics Inc. ("Diamond"), a leading psychedelic drug development company focused on low-dose therapies for mental health, has entered into an agreement with 91�� for the exclusive use of Dr. Gabriella Gobbi's groundbreaking studies with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), its mechanism of action on the brain, and its potential for use at low doses in the treatment of mental health disorders.

Published: 4 February 2021

An exceptional donation to support autism research

webfull — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:35:54 +0000

Q1K: A collaborative undertaking involving 1,000 families to transform autism care

Published: 13 November 2019

Music improves social communication in autistic children

webfull — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:22:48 +0000

Engaging in musical activities such as singing and playing instruments in one-on-one therapy can improve autistic children’s social communication skills, improve their family’s quality of life, as well as increased brain connectivity in key networks, according to researchers at Université de Montréal and 91��.

Published: 5 November 2018

New Insight Into How Autism Might Develop in Human Brain

webfull — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:46:30 +0000

In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a 91�� team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, revealed a molecular mechanism that may play a role in the development of autism.

By taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming those cells to become brain cells through genetic engineering, Dr. Ernst, graduate student Scott Bell, and Edward A. Fon and Thomas M. Durcan, colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, tracked how a brain cell with the patient’s own mutation develops improperly.

Published: 26 June 2018

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