Christina Gianoulakis wants to elucidate the role of the endogenous opioid peptide systems in mediating the reinforcing effects of alcohol.

Serge Gauthier has contributed to the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementing disorders.  

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.

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

Jorge Armony, PhD conducts research on how the brain detects danger stimuli and how it interacts with consciousness and memory.

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...

The neurophenotyping center, inaugurated October 2008, performs basic science in mental health (in French).

Question period following a lecture by Serge Gauthier, MD, on Alzheimer's disease in 2007 (in French).