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

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

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

Gustavo Turecki investigates the neurobiology of suicide, focusing on the role of genetic risk factors.

Salah El Mestikawy studies neurons using glutamate as a neurotransmitter in healthy and diseased central nervous systems.  

Florian Storch explores explores the biological role of circadian clocks, internal timers that generate rhythms  of 24 hours.

Nicolas Cermakian is studying the molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, especially in animal models.

Watch this video presentation by Judes Poirier, PhD, CQ, during the 2011 Mini-Psych School.

The Douglas’s Scientific Director, Brigitte Kieffer, was among four scientists honored on may 14th on Parliament Hill for their work .

An international team of scientists including two Douglas researchers has discovered what amounts to a molecular reset button for our internal body clock.