Key facts of Rémi Quirion Laboratory

Documentation for the National Centre for Excellence in Mental Health (NCEMH)

The Intensive Case Management (ICM) Program is a means of organizing the work to provide integrated psychiatric treatment and recovery services to people with severe mental illnesses.

Created in June 2008, the National Centre of Excellence in Mental Health (NCEMH) reports to the Direction de la santé mentale of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS).

The laboratory evaluates the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug aimed at slowing the progression of Alzheimer's Disease.

Not only does our environment influence our mental and physical health, it can also change the functioning of the genes we inherit at birth

People are referred to the Outpatient Clinic by the “guichet d’accès” of their CLSC or by other services at the Douglas Institute.

The Programme d'accompagnement justice-santé mentale (PAJ-SM) at the Montreal Municipal Court.

Mental Health and homelessness > Law reforms have contributed to the criminalization of psychiatry in Quebec.

The laboratory’s focus is on the neurons that use glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter that is key to the functioning of the central nervous system.