René Desautels is Medical Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry Program, Douglas Institute

Marie-Josée Fleury studies healthcare system organizations and evaluation of mental health services.

Anne Crocker, PhD, focuses her work on the interface between mental health and the law.

Nicolas Cermakian is studying the molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, especially in animal models.

Jean Caron's research relates mainly to the epidemiology of mental illnesses and suicide.

Thomas Brown studies the development of psychosocial interventions to combat substance abuse.

Véronique Bohbot investigates the neural correlates underlying visual and auditory spatial memory in normal and brain-damaged individuals.

Work from Rémi Quirion's lab has helped to characterize the roles of cholinergic synapses in Alzheimer Disease, neuropeptide Y in depression and learning, and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in pain and opioid tolerance.

The researchers exploring the “Schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders” theme focus on the causes, course, treatment and prevention of: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome Autism (research and evaluation) In Canada, one in a hundred people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia while 3 to 5% of children have an attention deficit...

The researchers working on the “Services, policy and population health” theme come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds: psychiatry, epidemiology, law, anthropology, economy, psychology, social work, administration. Their goal is to inspire and influence developments in mental health policy so that people living with a mental illness can obtain the care and services to which they are entitled. To accomplish this, the researchers: Study the organization of mental health s...