Key facts of Rémi Quirion Laboratory

Alzheimer's Disease : Causes, symptoms and evolution

There are two inptaient service points in the geriatric psychiatry program of the Douglas Institute.

Jens Pruessner uses brain imaging techniques to investigate what happens in the brain when stress is perceived and processed.

Judes Poirier who had discovered a novel genetic risk factor that triggers the common form of Alzheimer’s disease, again made history in June.  

Natasha Rajah, nvestigates how memory retrieval works in healthy young adults, and how it is affected by aging.

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

N.P. Vasavan Nair, M.D., FRCPC, has contributed to the Douglas Institute in a variety of capacities.

We all know that, as a population, we are getting older: By 2016, 17% of Canadians will be at least 65 years old and, as the population ages, the number of Alzheimer’s cases will rise accordingly (Statistics Canada) The risk of depression among caregivers of Alzheimer’s sufferers is twice as high as for informal caregivers of individuals with no dementia The needs of our aging population will be a heavy load to bear if we do not find more effective means to treat and prevent ...

Watch this video presentation by Judes Poirier, PhD, CQ, during the 2011 Mini-Psych School.