A PhD student in psychiatry from the Douglas Institute has been named an “Étudiant-chercheur étoile ” for April 2014.

Bruno Giros, professor in the Department of Psychiatry, explained on the air at Radio-Canada how his work on dopamine in the brain  opens new avenues.

Don’t miss the broadcast of the Mini-Psych School on Canal Savoir from April 14 until July 13.

$ 9,8 million awarded to the Douglas Institute for the creation of a centre specializing in research on depression and suicide

Use spatial memory -instead of stimuli-response- to reduce risks of dementia

 A Douglas study featured in Quebec Science top ten discoveries of 2013

 Discovery of “teen gene” could hold promise for combating severe mental illnesses

A brain reward gene influences food choices in the first years of life

Véronique Bohbot, PhD, establishes direct link between stimulus-response learning and alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse

Douglas Institute researchers identify the neural circuits that modulate REM sleep