Douglas Hospital was founded in 1881 by Alfred Perry and a group of Protestant clergy and Montréal citizens.

Mallar Chakravarty is interested in the anatomy of the brain and how it changes through development, aging, and in illness.

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

Michael Meaney examines the molecular mechanisms by which maternal care alters gene expression.

Natasha Rajah, nvestigates how memory retrieval works in healthy young adults, and how it is affected by aging.

Sylvain Williams pursues several complimentary lines of study aimed towards elucidating the cause of Alzheimer Disease.

Véronique Bohbot investigates the neural correlates underlying visual and auditory spatial memory in normal and brain-damaged individuals.

We all know that, as a population, we are getting older: By 2016, 17% of Canadians will be at least 65 years old and, as the population ages, the number of Alzheimer’s cases will rise accordingly (Statistics Canada) The risk of depression among caregivers of Alzheimer’s sufferers is twice as high as for informal caregivers of individuals with no dementia The needs of our aging population will be a heavy load to bear if we do not find more effective means to treat and prevent ...

When you work at the Douglas Institute, you work for a world-reknowned mental health institution

When you work at the Douglas Institute, you work for a world-reknowned mental health institution