Helping a child or an adult suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder.

Not only does our environment influence our mental and physical health, it can also change the functioning of the genes we inherit at birth

Understanding eating disorders and their causes is essential to preventing and treating them.

Claire-Dominique Walker investigates the consequences of early stress on brain development and the neuroendocrine responses to stress.

Animated short films produced by the kids from Project Ice Storm

The media talks about the Douglas, in Quebec, Canada and everywhere! 

The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec’s Ice Storm predicts the epigenetic profile of her child.

July 23rd was  a special day at the Douglas Institute, as it was the annual PEPP knowledge sharing day. 

Scientists from The Douglas Institute and from McGill University publish new findings within Project Ice Storm.

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