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

Ashok Malla is an international leader in the development of programs for, and research in, early intervention in psychosis.

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

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

Salah El Mestikawy studies neurons using glutamate as a neurotransmitter in healthy and diseased central nervous systems.  

Martin Lepage uses using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

N.P. Vasavan Nair, M.D., FRCPC, has contributed to the Douglas Institute in a variety of capacities.

Mimi Israël is active in eating disorders, affective disorders, crisis intervention, emergency psychiatry and mental health care service organization.

Alain Gratton, PhD, investigates the role of dopamine in drug abuse, as well as exposure to stress.

Christina Gianoulakis wants to elucidate the role of the endogenous opioid peptide systems in mediating the reinforcing effects of alcohol.