Dance, music and your brain. Making opiates. Hormonal change and women's memory. MoEDAL experiment.

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• There is continuing coverage of a new study from the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research of the different ways in which brain development is impacted by dance and music training. The senior and lead authors are Virginia Penhune, chair of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and PhD candidate Chiara Giacosa. The study was published in NeuroImage: Radio Canada International, Health Medicine Network, Newsmax, iTech Post, Detik Health (in Indonesian).
• An article in The New Yorker about making opiates without poppies mentions work by Vincent Martin, biology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on the development of a yeast strain to make opiates.
• The Qatar Tribune picks up news of new research, led by Wayne Brake, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on how women's memory is affected by hormonal changes. 
• The Gateway writes that the Canadian-led MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva includes collaborators from Concordia.

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