People with Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) struggle to focus, sit still, or restrain their impulses.

Causes and treatments of psychosis, a syndrome associated with a variety of mental, behavioural and emotional problems.

It is estimated that up to 20 percent of Canadian children and youth may be affected by mental illness.

Alzheimer's Disease : Causes, symptoms and evolution

The Geriatric Psychiatry Program at the Douglas Institute provides services to clients aged 65 and older and to adults younger than 65 with a geriatric profile. The program covers psychiatric diagnoses such as: mood disorders anxiety di

The Severe Disruptive Disorders Program offers a range of superspecialized services for children aged 6 to 12 years with behaviour problems with or without an attention deficit disorder / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Antoine Adamantidis, PhD, is interested in the underlying neural mechanism for wakefulness or vigilance states.

Florian Storch explores explores the biological role of circadian clocks, internal timers that generate rhythms  of 24 hours.

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...

An international team of scientists including two Douglas researchers has discovered what amounts to a molecular reset button for our internal body clock.