Anorexia and Bulimia: New Services and New Facility at the Douglas Hospital in Verdun 2004-06-03
When the Douglas Hospital Eating Disorders Program (EDP) was created in 1986, its team of professionals envisaged a place that would be peaceful and reassuring – where the best services would be of...

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Douglas Hospital Research Centre Invites General Public to Celebrate 25 Years of Innovation in Mental Health 2004-05-14
Researchers Help Demystify Mental Illness Although one person in five suffers from a mental health problem, mental illness is often seen as a shameful subject. In honour of the Douglas Hospital Re...

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: February 1-7, 2004 2004-01-30
Eating Disorders Awareness Week is taking place February 1-7, 2004. At the Douglas Hospital, Howard Steiger, PhD, director of the Eating Disorders Program (EDP), together with his team of professio...

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First Concerted Effort in Brain Imaging in the Field of Psychiatry in the Province of Quebec 2003-08-28
Douglas Hospital Research Centre Partners with Montreal Neurological Institute to open Its Brain Imaging Group Douglas Hospital researchers are excited about their new toys: a state of the art neu...

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Women Who Are Malnourished Before Conception Have a Higher Risk of Premature Birth 2003-06-13
From Monday, June 16, to Thursday, June 19, 40 of the most eminent researchers in the world, in the field of perinatality and its consequences, will meet at the Delta Hotel in downtown Montreal as ...

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Douglas Hospital Honours Eminent Psychiatrist, Dr. Charles H. Cahn,for 52 Years of Dedicated Service 2003-05-30
In 1951, when German-born Charles H. Cahn first entered the beautiful grounds of the Douglas Hospital, cows grazed in the hospital’s fields, the hospital served approximately 1,200 inpatients (and ...

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First-of-Its-Kind Canadian Suicide Research Facility Opens at Douglas Hospital 2003-05-05
The Douglas Hospital is proud to announce the official opening of the McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS), a new and completely integrated research facility on suicide. Headed by Gustavo Turec...

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Shortage of brains for mental health research 2003-04-23
“We have a shortage of brains.” This is what was revealed by Ms. Danielle Cécyre, coordinator of the Brain Bank of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. During National Organ and Tissue Donation Aw...

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New Genetic Findings in Anorexia and Bulimia 2003-02-05
Researchers at the Douglas Hospital’s Eating Disorders Program (EDP) have just presented research findings indicating that -contrary to popular beliefs- genetic factors are as important as social o...

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