Anne Crocker, PhD, and her team are exploring how the judicial process deals with people suffering from mental disorders, and are helping to set up a mental health court in Montreal.

In 1982, after consultation with the Canadian government, the Director-General of WHO designates the Douglas Mental Health University Institute as the first Collaborating Centre for research and training in mental health in Canada.

The Charles Cahn Library houses over 15,000 books and journals in the fields of psychiatry and mental health services.

The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is seriously committed to the protection of your privacy. The Douglas wants to ensure that you are well informed about our privacy policy with regard to the collection and use of all personal information that you provide to us.

The content of these sites (including the experts' blogs) is strictly informative in nature and in no way replaces diagnosis, assessment, treatment or follow-up that can only be provided by a health professional.

Depression in young people is considered a disorder when feelings of sadness, emptiness, etc. last for many days and significantly impair life.

Directed by Giamal Luheshi, PhD, the lab investigates the interactions between the peripheral immune system and the brain during infection and inflammation.

Directed by Alain Brunet, PhD, this research laboratory studies the impact of traumatic events.

The MGSS conducts research on suicide among aboriginal people.

The McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) is interested in the risk factors associated with suicidal behaviour.