Directed by Howard Steiger, PhD, the Eating Disorders Program (EDP) research activities focus on the causes, personal experiences and treatments of anorexia and bulimia.

Understanding eating disorders and their causes is essential to preventing and treating them.

People with Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) struggle to focus, sit still, or restrain their impulses.

Research at the Eating Disorders Program addresses various aspects of the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of eating disorders in the spectrum of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Outpatient clinics for children 18 and undre include the Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) Diagnostic Clinic, the Depressive Disorders Clinic and the Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic.

The Douglas Institute offers its residents the opportunity to acquire a developmental perspective of the individual, from infancy through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and into old age.

Michael Meaney examines the molecular mechanisms by which maternal care alters gene expression.

As a clinician, Johanne Renaud holds the title of medical chief for the youth section of the Douglas Institute’s Depressive Disorders Program.

David Laplante has been studying the link between prenatal stress and early childhood development.

The Douglas Instititute's and McGill University Professor Michael Meaney has been selected as the 2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Laureate.