A new study shows that the hippocampus retains traces of negative and stressful experiences which are linked to depressive behaviours

Published: 13 August 2019

Depression can be associated with behaviours such as social avoidance, that is, the refusal to interact with others for fear of being judged or criticized. Physicians and other mental health...

New research offers hope for faster acting antidepressants

Published: 3 August 2017

For people suffering from depression, a day without treatment can seem like a lifetime. A new study explains why the most commonly prescribed antidepressants can take as long as six weeks to have...

Memory and Alzheimer’s: towards a better comprehension

Published: 3 September 2014

A study just published in the prestigious Nature Neuroscience journal by, Sylvain Williams, PhD, and his team, of the Research Centre of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill...

Impact of video gaming on the brain

Published: 20 May 2015

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B by the teams of Dr. Gregory West (Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal) and Dr. Véronique Bohbot (Douglas...

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