The recent family tragedies that occurred in the province since the beginning of the year are disturbing. The Douglas Institute believes that although it is important to discuss these events, reporting must be done with caution in order to avoid added

You are invited to submit a proposal, before March 31, 2009, for workshops, communications, forums or posters that you would like to show at this symposium . The theme is "Ethical Challenges in Mental Health: a time to reflect". It is or

Special screening of C'est pas moi, je le jure ! with the participation of Philippe Falardeau. On February 28, 2009, as part of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Jean-François Bélair, MD, psychiatrist a

Web users now have an additional way of accessing the Douglas Mental Health University Institute fact sheets, as PasseportSanté.net has added a number of these fact sheets on various mental health issues, validated and approved by Douglas Insti

Media Advisory: Douglas Institute hosts international conference looking at impact and interventions - January 28 to 30, 2009  The stress caused by living through cataclysmic events such as tsunamis, ice storms or severe floods, may have far r

The Douglas Institute is part of an international effort to investigate a new treatment A vaccine-based approach could be an effective therapy for people with mild or moderate forms of Alzheimer’s disease. The medication used for this therapy w

McGill, MUHC and Douglas researchers, among them Alain Brunet, get top marks from Québec Science

Imagine if:  A patient’s file indicates that he has been receiving treatment and a team is handling his follow-up care – fourteen months after he died. You see patients’ names on a waiting list when, in fact, they a

Over the past 2 years, the Douglas has been working on a project to renew its physical infrastructure. This process has been driven by the increasing number of obstacles the aging facilities present to delivering against the organization’s multi

Forensic mental health researcher Anne Crocker, PhD, is tackling some of today's most challenging mental health policy questions.