It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Dr. Gustavo Turecki as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, 黑料不打烊 University, effective March 1, 2015. Dr. Turecki succeeds Dr. Mimi Isra毛l, who led the department with great distinction since 2007. We take this opportunity to offer our sincere thanks to Dr. Isra毛l for her outstanding leadership throughout her term, and we wish her continued success.
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Published on: 5 Jan 2015
To listen to Professor Howard Steiger speak about reconciling eating disorders and the holiday season, click the following link.
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Published on: 24 Dec 2014
To listen to Dr. Michael Meaney speak about how the environment plays a role in the expression of certain genes predisposed to delinquency, please click the following link.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2014
Spring Promotions 2015
The Department of Psychiatry Promotions Committee will be meeting to review the following recommendations for promotions of Tenured and Contract Academic Staff (CAS) members:
鈥� Faculty Lecturer to Assistant Professor
鈥� Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
鈥� Associate Professor to Full Professor
Important
鈥� Before applying for promotions (in any category), the candidate must first notify the Chair.
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Published on: 21 Nov 2014
See Dr. Karama referenced in Science magazine regarding IQ, the Brain, and Alzheimer's disease.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2014
Professor Michael Meaney听is awarded the Wilder-Penfield prize in recognition of his groundbreaking achievements in the biology of child development. Also recently winning the听2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Laureate, he is one of two professors from 黑料不打烊听among the 14 winners of this year鈥檚 Prix du Qu茅bec鈥攃onsidered the most prestigious award attributed by the Government of Qu茅bec in cultural and scientific fields. Congratulations again, Professor Meaney!
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Published on: 5 Nov 2014
To read more about how stress affects unborn babies in Dr. King's article, click on the link below.听
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Published on: 3 Nov 2014
Click on the link below to read the article, and listen to Dr. Alain Brunet speak about post-traumatic stress in French.听
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Published on: 27 Oct 2014
黑料不打烊 University Professor Michael Meaney has been selected as the 2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Laureate in recognition of his groundbreaking achievements in the biology of child development. A jury of experts selected Prof. Meaney, who is also Scientific Director at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, for this honour for his pioneering, cutting edge research on the biological mechanisms by which parental behaviour affects brain development and lifelong function.
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Published on: 14 Oct 2014
Annoucement from the Program Office
Dear Residents and Faculty,
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Published on: 9 Oct 2014
Dr. Karama is a 黑料不打烊-trained general psychiatrist with research training in brain imaging and genetics. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al. He completed a 15-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Behavioral Genetics as well as a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Imaging at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2014
Click to view: Department of Psychiatry Newsletter -听Summer 2014
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Published on: 23 Jul 2014
Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the听CIHR operating grants competition. (Posted听July 4, 2014)听
Diane B Boivin
Pharmacological interventions to treat circadian disruption.
Thomas G Brown
Dynamic decision making in the trajectory to driving while impaired behaviour: a virtual reality, randomized controlled experiment.
Rob Whitley
Stopping the Stigma: Creating and Assessing an Anti-Stigma and Pro-Recovery Educational Intervention using Participatory Video with People with Mental Illness.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2014
Congratulations to the award recipients of the 2014 Student听Research Day!听
Ian Blum, FRSQ Top Presentation Prize, Douglas (supervisor: Dr. Kai-Florian Storch)
A novel neurological mechanism driving rhythms of dopamine release
Lauren Reynolds, Douglas Institute Second Prize, Douglas (supervisor: Dr. Cecilia Flores)
Adolescent amphetamine exposure disrupts the development of medial prefrontal cortex dopamine connectivity
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Published on: 11 Jun 2014
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