Sleepless seniors. City of ideas. Beyond Brutal Passions. Ex-Yu.

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• The Montreal Gazette publishes the final installment of a week-long series of articles —Aging Well  — produced in partnership with the newspaper and Postmedia Works. Today's article, "Getting a good night’s sleep in old age", features the work of Thanh Dang-Vu, a professor in the Department of Exercise Science  and research chair in sleep, neuroimaging and cognitive health. The puiece focuses on Dang-Vu's work at the PERFORM Centre on the study of sleep and insomnia, notably among older subjects. 
• Gad Saad, a professor in the Department of Marketing and associate editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology appears in numerous Spanish-language media outlets covering the "Ciudad de las Ideas 2015" conference in Mexico. Saad, a guest speaker at the event, spoke about his work on the biological factors that help drive consumers: Sexenio, e-Consulta, Forbes (Mexican edition), Puebla Noticias and Periodico Central.
• Montreal Review of Books reviews Beyond Brutal Passions (McGill-Queen's University Press), a portrait of prostitution in 19th-century Montreal, written by Mary Anne Poutanen, part-time faculty in the Department of History.
• Montreal Review of Books also looks at Ex-Yu, a collection of short stories by Josip Novakovich, professor in the Department of English. The review mentions that Novakovich was a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

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