Rob Whitley examines barriers and facilitators to recovery within both health services and the wider socio-cultural environment.

Natasha Rajah, nvestigates how memory retrieval works in healthy young adults, and how it is affected by aging.

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

Claire-Dominique Walker investigates the consequences of early stress on brain development and the neuroendocrine responses to stress.

Eric Latimer, PhD, is a health economist and looks for ways to improve the services to people with severe forms of mental illness.

Véronique Bohbot investigates the neural correlates underlying visual and auditory spatial memory in normal and brain-damaged individuals.

We all know that, as a population, we are getting older: By 2016, 17% of Canadians will be at least 65 years old and, as the population ages, the number of Alzheimer’s cases will rise accordingly (Statistics Canada) The risk of depression among caregivers of Alzheimer’s sufferers is twice as high as for informal caregivers of individuals with no dementia The needs of our aging population will be a heavy load to bear if we do not find more effective means to treat and prevent ...

The researchers working on the “Services, policy and population health” theme come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds: psychiatry, epidemiology, law, anthropology, economy, psychology, social work, administration. Their goal is to inspire and influence developments in mental health policy so that people living with a mental illness can obtain the care and services to which they are entitled. To accomplish this, the researchers: Study the organization of mental health s...

The researchers exploring the “Schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders” theme focus on the causes, course, treatment and prevention of: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome Autism (research and evaluation) In Canada, one in a hundred people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia while 3 to 5% of children have an attention deficit...

Mental health strategy for Canada - Reaction from Anne Crocker (in French)