The Douglas Mental Health University Institute offers cutting-edge care and services and advance and share knowledge in mental health.

1- Determinants of adequacy of help with regard to the needs of users with severe mental health problems This is a longitudinal study on the relationship between needs and help needed for recovery. This study aims to bring about a better understandi

The Douglas – Bell Canada Brain Bank has almost 3000 human brain specimens. Established in 1980, it is the oldest brain bank in Canada, and one of the two largest reserves of autopsied brains in the country.

What is mental health recovery?

The research group directed by Rob Whitley studies the environmental factors that shape the onset and remission of mental illness.

The goal of this study  is to understand how we can slow or reverse the emergence of AD symptoms

Contact information for the PREVENT-Alzheimer study

Research team of the PREVENT-Alzherimer Program.  

The goal of the PREVENT-AD program is to study memory and brain changes in healthy people over the age of 60.

McGill and the Douglas have joined hands to create the StoP-AD Centre dedicated to the prevention of AD.