Caroline Ménard explains her work on Medium Large - Radio-Canada
Listen to a recent interview with Caroline Ménard, who discusses her recent research with Catherine Perrin and Sonia Lupien, which shows that stress can open the blood-brain barrier, allowing pro-inflammatory molecules to enter the brain.
« We knew in an empirical way that chronic stress, in humans and animal, will cause a certain percent of them to develop a depression, says Sonia Lupien. We knew it happened, but we did not know why. Caroline's work provides the first elements of a very, very clear mechanism.
