For Immediate Release – April 16, 2012 – (Toronto) – His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston Governor General of Canada presented Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee Medal to Dr. David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor of the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. The presentation occured [...]
Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning.CAMH Senior Scientist Dr. John Vincent and his team found a mutation in the gene NSUN2 among three sisters with intellectual disability, a finding [...]
Children exposed to maternal gestational diabetes mellitus and low socioeconomic status, particularly in combination, appear to be at an increased risk of developing childhood ADHD, according to a report published in the Jan. 2012 online edition of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) typically develops in the second [...]
A systematic review of previous studies suggests that there may be a positive relationship between physical activity and the academic performance of children, according to a report in the January 2012 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Amika Singh, Ph.D., of the Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center, EMGO Institute for Health [...]
Different ingredients in marijuana appear to affect regions of the brain differently during brain processing functions involving responses to certain visual stimuli and tasks, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Sagnik Bhattacharyya, M.B.B.S., M.D., Ph.D, at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College in London, and colleagues [...]
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of Aβ42 appear to be decreased at least five to 10 years before some patients with mild cognitive impairment develop Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia whereas other spinal fluid levels seem to be later markers of disease, according to a report in the January 2012 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [...]
Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “Progressive loss of brain gray matter [...]
Maternal migraine is associated with increased risk of infant colic, according to findings presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting, which is scheduled to take place in New Orleans on April 25, 2012. “Since migraine is a highly genetic disorder, our study suggests that infant colic may be an early sign that [...]
Women with active migraine or past history of migraine are at increased risk of developing depression compared to women with no history of migraine. “This is one of the first large studies to examine the association between migraine and the development of depression over time,” said Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, with Brigham and Women’s Hospital [...]
A person’s stroke risk profile, which includes high blood pressure, smoking, and diabetes, may also be helpful in predicting whether a person will develop memory and thinking problems later in the life, according to a research published in the Nov. 8, 2011 issue of Neurology. During the study investigators followed 23,752 people with an average [...]