Neurosciences and music meet in Montreal
In the wake of the success of previous meetings in Venice in 2002 and Leipzig in 2005, the Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani ONLUS announces the third edition of the Neurosciences and Music international conference which will be held in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) from June 26th to 28th, 2008. ... The upcoming meeting will be held in partnership with the BRAMS (International Laboratory for Bra...New discovery about Parkinson's at the Montreal Neurological Institute
... ... By studying defects in the genes of pa...Montral, August 29, 2005 A group of Montreal researchers has discovered that GCN2, a protein in cells that inhibits the conversion of new information into long-term memory, may be a master regulator of the switch from short-term to long-term memory. Their paper Translational control of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory by the eIF2a kinase GCN2, which was published in the August 25th iss...