Not only does our environment influence our mental and physical health, it can also change the functioning of the genes we inherit at birth

The Programme d'accompagnement justice-santé mentale (PAJ-SM) at the Montreal Municipal Court.

What are the consequences of a "non-criminally responsable" verdict?

The laboratory’s focus is on the neurons that use glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter that is key to the functioning of the central nervous system.

The Charles Cahn Library houses over 15,000 books and journals in the fields of psychiatry and mental health services.

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Depression in young people is considered a disorder when feelings of sadness, emptiness, etc. last for many days and significantly impair life.

All laboratory projects require and utilize a multidisciplinary approach, ranging from behavioral models to cellular events, involving the latest technology.

Directed by Sylvain Williams, PhD, the lab is interested in two brain structures – the hippocampus and the septum – which interact closely in order to generate critical aspects of learning and memory.