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  • Flu or gastro:avoid emergency room!

    The healthcare and social services establishments across Montréal remind the public of tips to use before going to a hospital emergency room.

    Flu or gastro:avoid emergency room!
  • A new plantation of 120 trees

    A hundred and twenty new trees now adorn the Douglas campus

    A new plantation of 120 trees
  • Aquaponics

    The Douglas Institute, in collaboration with la Coopérative abondance urbaine solidaire (CAUS), launched its first aquaponic system.

    Aquaponics
  • Mini-Psych School

    Loneliness: Burden or ally ?

    Loneliness: Burden or ally ?

    In this 2014 lecture, Rose-Marie Charest talks about the many facets of loneliness.

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    Study on memory

    Study on memory

    The Douglas Institute is looking for participants to take part in a study on the memory of faces

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    Social Psychiatry

    Social Psychiatry

    The research group directed by Rob Whitley studies the environmental factors that shape the onset and remission of mental illness.

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Douglas blogs

  1. April 24, 2019

    Psychospeak with Dr.Z

    De l’obscurité vers la lumière / Dark into Light
  2. May 16, 2018

    Psychospeak with Dr.Z

    Things you have to be OK with if you support Trump
  3. October 13, 2017

    Psychospeak with Dr.Z

    Thank you, Howie Mandel!
  4. August 03, 2017

    Psychospeak with Dr.Z

    The beautiful and the ugly…of human nature
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