Directed by Thomas Brown, PhD, and Christine Gianoulakis, PhD, the laboratory is researching the genetic etiology and underlying mechanisms of addiction as well as the markers of predisposition to addiction.

Directed by Cécilia Flores, PhD, the laboratory investigates brain abnormalities at the cellular and molecular level contributing to behaviours associated with schizophrenia and addiction.

Depression in young people is considered a disorder when feelings of sadness, emptiness, etc. last for many days and significantly impair life.

Alain Gratton, PhD, investigates the role of dopamine in drug abuse, as well as exposure to stress.

Cecilia Flores' work focuses on the dysfunction of the dopaminergic system, a brain system important in reward, motor, and cognitive functions.

Thomas Brown studies the development of psychosocial interventions to combat substance abuse.

Michel Perreault's main focus is the evaluation of psychiatric and substance abuse programs.  

Lalit Srivastava, has conducted research on schizophrenia and dopamine, a brain chemical implicated in its development.

Instability of the child’s developing mind: a 2007 lecture by Johanne Renaud, MD (in French)

Question period following a 2007 lecture by Johanne Renaud, MD, on child and adolescent psychiatry (in French).