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.

The MGSS is made up of independent investigators, research associates, graduate PhD and MSc level students, and research collaborators.

The McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) is interested in the risk factors associated with suicidal behaviour.

Brigitte L. Kieffer, PhD, is the new Scientific Director of the Douglas Institute Research Centre

Carl Ernst studies human behaviour and mood by identifying genes that may be involved in mental disorders.

Antoine Adamantidis, PhD, is interested in the underlying neural mechanism for wakefulness or vigilance states.

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

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

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

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