Mental Health and homelessness > Law reforms have contributed to the criminalization of psychiatry in Quebec.

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.

All laboratory projects require and utilize a multidisciplinary approach, ranging from behavioral models to cellular events, involving the latest technology.

The research team of the neuroimmunology laboratory.

The lab team studies the effect of prenatal stress on childhood development and the various risk factors associated with schizophrenia.  

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.

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

The MGSS conducts research on suicide among aboriginal people.

The lab is interested in the effects of stress on the aging process and in individual differences in stress responsivity.

Natasha Rajah's research team uses brain imaging to examine the neural substrates of learning and memory in healthy young adults.