Jibran Khokhar
Neuropsychopharmacologist; co-occurring addiction/mental illness @queensu/@UofT/@Dartmouth Assist. Professor @UofG @OntVetCollege. PI @JKhokharLab
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About the department
Why study psychology at Concordia? At Concordia's Department of Psychology, students discover how the science of psychology gives us a better understanding of human nature.
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN)
The Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) at Concordia University is one of Canada's preeminent research centers for the study of behavior.
Tenure Track Position in Behavioural Neuroscience
Job posting in the Faculty of Arts and Science
Harnessing Ontario’s brainpower
NeuroTech event at TheMuseum in Kitchener will showcase innovation aimed at making life better for people with brain disorders
Correlated Neural Activity across the Brains of Socially Interacting Bats
Social interactions involve complex animal behaviors. In socially interacting bats,
there is inter-brain correlation of neural activity, reflecting current and future
states of social behavior.
Correlated Neural Activity and Encoding of Behavior across Brains of Socially Interacting Animals
When two animals interact, neural activity across their brains synchronizes in a way
that predicts how they will behave and how they form social dominance relationships.
Exclusive: David Sackler Pleads His Case on the Opioid Epidemic
OxyContin made the Sackler family billions—but now, after 400,000 opioid deaths, it’s made them near-pariahs. Citing “vitriolic hyperbole” and “endless castigation,” David Sackler tells his story for the first time.
NeuroTech Ontario Showcase @ KW
The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) is coming to Waterloo to host its annual NeuroTech Ontario Showcase!
Come and see, touch, and experience the latest brain health technologies from the Waterloo region and beyond. Mingle with the region’s brightest...
Kratom, with Dr Oliver Grundmann
Suzi Gage is joined by researcher Dr Oliver Grundmann, from the University of Florida, to talk about kratom - a leaf from the plant Mitragyna speciosa that grows in SE Asia. Is it an opioid? Or could it be useful in harm reduction? And what do we...
From Many to One to Many—the Search for Causes of Psychiatric Illness
This Special Communication describes the history of the psychiatric field to discover a single cause or many causes of specific psychiatric disorders and discusses whether doing so will legitimate the discipline of psychiatry.
How "Female Hysteria" Hampered Biomedical Research
Victorian era notions may have excluded female animals from research.
In Battle With Juul, San Francisco Becomes First City To Ban E-Cigarettes
San Francisco legislators unanimously voted to halt the sale of e-cigarettes in the city, though Juul has already put a plan into action to undo the ban.
Association Between Childhood Behaviors and Adult Earnings
This study analyzes 30 years of data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children to identify elementary school–aged behaviors that may increase the likelihood of future socioeconomic disadvantages.
Interaction of Sex and Age on the Dissociative Effects of Ketamine Action in Young Healthy Participants
Ketamine is a drug that reduces depressive and elicits schizophrenia-like symptoms in humans. However, it is largely unexplored whether women and men differ with respect to ketamine-action and whether age contributes to drug-effects. In this study...
Cannabis quality involves careful science and carefree highs
To deliver good-quality cannabis, producers must simultaneously aim for both careful science and carefree highs.
E-Cigarette Exploded in a Teenager’s Mouth, Damaging His Jaw
A Nevada youth’s jaw was badly injured while vaping. Doctors suspect a faulty battery caused an explosion.
Growing up high: Neurobiological consequences of adolescent cannabis use: Canadian neuroscientists offer insights into the long-term effects of adolescent cannabis use
About one in five Canadian adolescents uses cannabis. Neuroscientists have been researching the effects of cannabis on the adolescent brain. Adolescence is associated with the maturation of cognitive functions, such as working memory,...
Effects of MDMA on attention to positive social cues and pleasantness of affective touch
Effects of MDMA on attention to positive social cues and pleasantness of affective touch
Effect of cannabidiol on endocannabinoid, glutamatergic and GABAergic signalling markers in male offspring of a maternal immune activation (poly I:C) model relevant to schizophrenia
The mainstay treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic drugs (APDs), which are mostly effective against the positive symptoms (e.g. hallucinations)…
Jibran Khokhar
Effect of cannabidiol on endocannabinoid, glutamatergic and GABAergic signalling markers in male offspring of a maternal immune activation (poly I:C) model relevant to schizophrenia
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