Brigitte Kieffer receives the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award

$ 9,8 million awarded to the Douglas Institute for the creation of a centre specializing in research on depression and suicide

Use spatial memory -instead of stimuli-response- to reduce risks of dementia

 A Douglas study featured in Quebec Science top ten discoveries of 2013

 Discovery of “teen gene” could hold promise for combating severe mental illnesses

A brain reward gene influences food choices in the first years of life

Health minister Réjean Hébert awards prestigious 2013 Prix Persillier-Lachapelle to Dr. Mimi Israël

Salah El Mestikawy received $1.5 million to explore the dual signalling capacity of neurons

Brigitte Kieffer takes office as the new Scientific Director of the Douglas Institute Research Centre January 15

Véronique Bohbot, PhD, establishes direct link between stimulus-response learning and alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse