Neurology

Optimal management of post-stroke depression and vascular cognitive impairment

Stroke care recommendations updated to promote optimal detection and management of post-stroke depression and vascular cognitive impairment.
What your patients are reading - Week of March 12, 2013
Sask. educational institutions team up to graduate nurses faster

Saskatchewan Institutes of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) and the University of Regina (U of R) have introduced an acceleration option that allows nurses to graduate quicker.
Press Review - March 8, 2013

Check out our review of recent medical stories in the media - Top Story: Fatter wallets, slimmer waists: Dieters given cash to lose weight shed four times as much: Mayo Clinic study. Read this and
Genetic discovery could revolutionize psychiatry

Seemingly distinct disorders are actually related, study suggests
Under investigation

A summary of drugs in late-stage development in Canada
Quick Q&A with Dr. Russell Kennedy

Dr. Russell Kennedy is “a GP who moonlights as a pro stand up comic in Vancouver. I did my pre-med degree in neuropsych and am keenly interested in the neuroscience of human stress and fear, and I speak on that topic (and other more humorous ones) on the roster of the National Speakers Bureau.”
Turning left? Stop talking!

Functional MRI scans back contention that hands-free talk is still too distracting

Leading Canadian health researchers honoured by CIHR and CMAJ