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

David Bloom treats and ensures follow-up for patients who suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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

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

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 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...

Hitting bottom - Chronic or episodic depression and burnout? Watch this 2011 lecture by Dr. Mimi Israel (in French).

Inauguration of the Brain Imaging Centre

Effects of exposure to food cues across the spectrum of eating pathology-2011

Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders - Video 2011