Media Relations Office Main navigation / Neuroscience at McGill   “The overall morbidity from brain diseases globally is greater than that of heart disease and cancer combined.” - Guy Rouleau, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill   A history of neuroscience excellence Since Wilder Penfield established the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill has been a neurosciences powerhouse. Here are just some of our recent discoveries: Aging and memory “As it stands now, we have to wait until people are showing symptoms like memory loss and clinical dementia. This means we are diagnosing Alzheimer’s when it’s been present in the brain for as long as 20 years.” - Prof. Howard Chertkow Read: Mental illness and addiction “What we have in psychiatry is an unacceptable approach to di
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