A PhD student in psychiatry from the Douglas Institute has been named an “Étudiant-chercheur étoile ” for April 2014.

Bruno Giros, professor in the Department of Psychiatry, explained on the air at Radio-Canada how his work on dopamine in the brain  opens new avenues.

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

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

"Bilingual" neurons may reveal the secrets of brain disease

The 2010 Douglas Institute research teams who were awarded grants from NSERC to pursue work in their respective fields of expertise.

Congratulations to Rémi Quirion, PhD, on being named Officer of the Order of Canada

Improved treatments may be on the way for some 280,000 Canadians with Alzheimer’s disease.

Montreal, March 8, 2006 – This is your brain, and Montreal neuroscientists know how it works. Next week, they will take the mystery out of all that gray matter during Brain Awareness Week (March 13-19). Over 100 neuroscience graduate students wi

Studies headed by Howard Steiger, Ph.D. have shed light on how a complex interplay between genetic, environmental, and psychological factors may occur to give rise to anorexia and bulimia nervosa.