The MGSS conducts extensive work investigating clinical and behavioral factors increasing risk for suicidal behaviors.

Directed by Reut Gruber, PhD, this multidisciplinary unit studies the interplay between sleep and the cognitive, behavioural and emotional development of children.dr  

The Severe Disruptive Disorders Program offers a range of superspecialized services for children aged 6 to 12 years with behaviour problems with or without an attention deficit disorder / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The basic and clinical research is oriented towards the long-term consequences for the brain of early perinatal and neonatal exposure to stressors.

Camillo Zacchia is Senior advisor, Mental Health Education Office (MHEO) at the Douglas Institute.

Bruno Giros characterizes the neurobiology of schizophrenia and develops improved genetic animal models of this illness.

Joseph Rochford examines how antidepressants change behavioral and biological mechanisms involved in coping with stress.

Naguib Mechawar identifies the neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties of major depression and suicidal behaviors in the brain.

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