Parle-moi d’amour at the Wellington Centre raised $ 13,720 2014-03-24
The third edition of the exhibit-auction Parle-moi d’amour at the Wellington Centre, which ended on March 13th, raised a total of $ 13,720 – around $ 1,500 more than last year. About 100 works of ...

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Blue Met Festival: Lynne McVey talks about mental health and litterature 2014-03-20
Interview with Shelley Pomerance
Insomnia is not necessarily a bad thing, according to Lynne McVey, who has a mild case. “I am very fortunate because I suffer from it between 3 and 5 in the morning, once or twice a week.” She make...

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Lack of sleep in young people: three institutions sound the alarm 2014-03-13
World Sleep Day 2014
For this World Sleep Day, Reut Gruber, PhD, researcher at the Douglas Institute, has published a statement responding to the major problem of lack of sleep in young people. This statement is suppor...

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A great Let’s Talk Day for our patients thanks to Bell and the Canadiens 2014-03-12
In January for Bell Let’s Talk Day, Douglas Institute patients had the chance to watch a Canadiens hockey game in the company of Guy Lafleur and two Bell spokespeople, comedian Michel Mpambara and ...

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The Douglas Foundation launches a mental illness awareness campaign on social media 2014-03-12
The Douglas Mental Health University Institute Foundation, in collaboration with Ogilvy Montréal, is launching a video campaign that can be personalized and shared on social media in order to raise...

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Removal of sick trees from the Douglas campus: necessary maintenance 2014-03-07
Over the next few weeks in March, twenty-two trees on the Douglas campus—mostly ashes infected by wood-boring insects—will be cut down. An inspection done in the fall by Nadeau Foresterie Urbaine...

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Brigitte Kieffer receives the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2014-03-03
The Scientific Director of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute Research Centre, Professor Brigitte Kieffer, will receive the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in a ceremony to t...

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The Foundation’s Young Ambassadors raise $ 16,650 for mental health research 2014-02-21
The second edition of MentaliTea, a fundraiser hosted and organized by the Douglas Foundation’s Young Ambassadors, was again a big success. One hundred and forty people came to Newtown on Crescent ...

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Camillo Zacchia invites you to participate in the 5/30 Health and Wellness Challenge 2014-02-19
Eat better, get more active, and sleep better—that’s the message being sent out this year by the 5/30 Health and Wellness Challenge team! The campaign—back for year 10—encourages Quebecers to impro...

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$ 9.8 million to the Douglas Institute for the creation of a centre specializing in research on depression and suicide 2014-02-04
Brigitte Kieffer, Dr Réjean Hébert, Lynne McVey, Patrick Murphy-Lavallée, Dr Gustavo Turecki The Minister of Healt...

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