Marie-Josée Fleury studies healthcare system organizations and evaluation of mental health services.

Jean-Bruno Debruille studies the processes that precede and permit the conscious perception using fMRI and ERPs.

Anne Crocker, PhD, focuses her work on the interface between mental health and the law.

Jean Caron's research relates mainly to the epidemiology of mental illnesses and suicide.

Thomas Brown studies the development of psychosocial interventions to combat substance abuse.

Véronique Bohbot investigates the neural correlates underlying visual and auditory spatial memory in normal and brain-damaged individuals.

We all know that, as a population, we are getting older: By 2016, 17% of Canadians will be at least 65 years old and, as the population ages, the number of Alzheimer’s cases will rise accordingly (Statistics Canada) The risk of depression among caregivers of Alzheimer’s sufferers is twice as high as for informal caregivers of individuals with no dementia The needs of our aging population will be a heavy load to bear if we do not find more effective means to treat and prevent ...

The researchers working on the “Services, policy and population health” theme come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds: psychiatry, epidemiology, law, anthropology, economy, psychology, social work, administration. Their goal is to inspire and influence developments in mental health policy so that people living with a mental illness can obtain the care and services to which they are entitled. To accomplish this, the researchers: Study the organization of mental health s...

A participant in the cognitive remediation progam explains the efficiency of this therapy on her memory (in French).

Understanding the molecular mechanism leading to addiction in humans