Depression is more than just a fleeting emotion. This illness hampers a person's daily functioning, negatively impacting their physical health. However, in most cases depression is treatable.    

Alzheimer's Disease : Causes, symptoms and evolution

Douglas Hospital was founded in 1881 by Alfred Perry and a group of Protestant clergy and Montréal citizens.

Jamie Near, Ph.D., is developing advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques

Lalit Srivastava, has conducted research on schizophrenia and dopamine, a brain chemical implicated in its development.

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

Patricia Boksa conducts research on pregnancy and birth complications as risk factors for the later development of schizophrenia.

Jens Pruessner uses brain imaging techniques to investigate what happens in the brain when stress is perceived and processed.

Pedro Rosa-Neto is interested in the structural changes that occur in the brain as a result of neurodegenerative disease.

Jean-Bruno Debruille studies the processes that precede and permit the conscious perception using fMRI and ERPs.