Section : The Douglas
The basic and clinical research is oriented towards the long-term consequences for the brain of early perinatal and neonatal exposure to stressors.
Section : Mental Health Info
Advice for the family of a person suffering from eating disorders.
Section : Mental Health Info
Understanding eating disorders and their causes is essential to preventing and treating them.
Section : Mental Health Info
Sleep disorders include fatigue created by night shifts, sleep-wake syndrome and jet lag
Section : Mental Health Info
Anxiety is a biological mechanism designed to protect us from dangerous situations. A little anxiety is natural; our reaction to this emotion results in the difference between a pleasant experience and a full-blown panic attack.
Section : Mental Health Info
People with Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) struggle to focus, sit still, or restrain their impulses.
Section : Mental Health Info
Causes and consequences of stress, a state that occurs when the human body experiences a lack of equilibrium, perceived as threatening.
Section : Mental Health Info
It is estimated that up to 20 percent of Canadian children and youth may be affected by mental illness.
Section : Mental Health Info
Apart from the drugs, some other therapies have proved successful to slow the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms.
Section : The Douglas
Research at the Eating Disorders Program addresses various aspects of the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of eating disorders in the spectrum of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.