Directed by Sylvain Williams, PhD, the lab is interested in two brain structures – the hippocampus and the septum – which interact closely in order to generate critical aspects of learning and memory.

Four major themes cover the research activities in Rémi Quirion's laboratory.

Martin Lepage uses using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

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.

Tak Pan Wong studies the impact of stress on the brain and evaluates how this relates to behaviour, learning and memory.

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

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

Maintaining balance between the hippocampus and striatum

New work by the Douglas Mental Health University Institute Mallar Chakravarty sheds light on the links between the shape of the hippocampus and memory function.