Montreal researchers find that, like Prozac, LSD may be useful for anxiety treatment. CTV News
Soigner l’anxiété à petites doses de LSD. Le Devoir
LSD, a future antianxiety pill? McGill University Health Centre
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Published on: 5 Apr 2022
Experts Identify Three Key Factors That Determine Mental Illness
..."These features represented some of the best-supported risk factors thought to influence multiple mental health problems," says the study's senior author Marco Leyton, PhD. "Our study is unique because we had the unprecedented opportunity to study all three factors together."
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Published on: 5 Apr 2022
Dr. Jai Shah was named the 2022 Research Excellence Awardee, a distinguished prize that will be officially awarded at the 2022 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society in Florence, Italy on 6-10 April 2022. The Research Excellence Award is given to a mid-career researcher who has shown exceptional research in the field of schizophrenia research and promising research trajectory. Congratulations Dr. Shah!
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Published on: 25 Mar 2022
Dr. Tremblay was a general practitioner at the Douglas Institute and an associate researcher at the Douglas Research Centre since 1999. He played an important role in introducing the concept of assessment of the quality of medical care using explicit and implicit criteria in Canada, in the 1980s. This concept is now used widely in North America and is recommended by the Quebec College of Physicians.
Dr. Tremblay worked closely with other former researchers, such as Drs. Thomas Brown and Maurice Dongier, and was committed to advancing research on substance abuse.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2022
Dr. Romina Mizrahi has been elected as a Board Member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) for a 4-year appointment, commencing April 7, 2022. The mission of the SIRS is to be a worldwide organization that aims to bring together researchers and clinicians in schizophrenia and related disorders. Congratulations Dr. Mizrahi!
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Published on: 23 Mar 2022
Dr.Serge Gauthier: Alzheimer's and Dementia Care and Treatment Needs to Change
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Published on: 23 Mar 2022
The Specialized Centre for Adolescent Mental Health of the MCH opens its doors. Read more
New outpatient centre in Montreal helps teens in suicidal crisis. Montreal Gazette
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Published on: 23 Mar 2022
Agression d’une jeune fille à Pointe-aux-Trembles | Parents et élèves sous le choc
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Published on: 16 Mar 2022
COVID restrictions are lifting, but for some, anxiety remains
…With his social life on the back burner, for instance, Rob Whitley, an associate professor in McGill’s department of psychiatry and an investigator at the Douglas Research Centre, wrote a book: Men’s Issues and Men’s Mental Health (Springer, 2021).
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Published on: 16 Mar 2022
Nouveau projet de psychiatrie de précision à l'Hôpital général de Montréal
...Au cours des prochaines années, des chercheurs dirigés par le docteur Simon Ducharme s'affaireront à accumuler les données, comme les marqueurs biologiques des patients qu'ils voient, dont ils ont besoin pour faire avancer les connaissances.
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Published on: 2 Mar 2022
Dr. Alain Brunet was recently featured on Télé-Québec’s “L’Avenir nous appartient”. He states that it is possible to reduce the intensity of a painful memory to treat those who have experienced severe post-traumatic stress or even severe heartbreak and that it is possible to help these individuals overcome their suffering. It is known as the Brunet Method.
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Published on: 2 Mar 2022
Montreal General Hospital funds new precision psychiatry project
...Over the next few years, Dr. Simon Ducharme will lead a team of researchers and collect data to advance knowledge on the subject, such as biological markers from the patients they see.
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Published on: 22 Feb 2022
Let's Go with Sabrina Marandola
Dr. Eric Latimer tells Sabrina about the potential benefits of researchers collaborating with existing shelters to find solutions to homelessness.
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Published on: 17 Feb 2022
More Quebec teen girls hospitalized for suicidal behaviour in 2021: report
...Dr. Martin Gignac, chief of psychiatry at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, said the number of young people coming to the emergency room in psychological distress had been rising steadily over the past 10 years and has increased further during the pandemic.
...Samuel Veissiere, a psychiatry professor at McGill University, said high school, junior college and university students have been somewhat forgotten during the pandemic and have suffered the most from isolation.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2022
Mesures sanitaires / Prochaine étape: apprendre à gérer le risque
…N’empêche, des études montrent un fossé grandissant entre les menaces perçues – terroristes, pandémiques, etc. – et les dangers réels, souligne la Dre Cécile Rousseau, pédopsychiatre et professeure au département de psychiatrie à McGill. « La perception du risque n’a pas de relation directe avec le risque réel ou avec l’exposition au risque », résume-t-elle.
La Presse
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Published on: 8 Feb 2022
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