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

Directed by Sylvain Williams, PhD, the lab is interested in two brain structures – the hippocampus and the septum – which interact closely in order to generate critical aspects of learning and memory.

Understanding eating disorders and their causes is essential to preventing and treating them.

Research at the Eating Disorders Program addresses various aspects of the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of eating disorders in the spectrum of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Classes are held every Tuesdays at 7 PM, from October 23 to November 27, 2007. They were overseen by Hani Iskandar, MD, Clinical Chief at Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and Coordinator in Undergraduate Medical Education at Douglas I

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

Question period following a course by Sonia Lupien on the anatomy and functioning of the brain (in French).

A 2007 lecture by Sonia Lupien on the brain anatomy and functioning (in French).

Understanding the molecular mechanism leading to addiction in humans

Douglas led project recieves federal funds.