Affiliated with McGill University and the Montreal West Island IUHSSC
Ms. Élisabeth Brière, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, visited the Douglas last Friday, Aug 19, 2022, to meet with some of our recently-funded researchers, and to learn more about the mental health research being carried out at the Douglas. MP Brière formally announced $4.7 million for … Read more
On Dec. 3, 2019, Forbes released their annual 30 under 30 list. Congratulations to Daniel Almeida, who was cited in the Science Category! Daniel is a PhD student in Dr. Gustavo Turecki’s lab, and works on molecular changes in postmortem brain samples of individuals who have experienced child abuse. Congratulations! See original announcement. Article … Read more
The Montréal West Island IUHSSC is proud to announce the double appointment of Dr. Gustavo Turecki, as both the Chief of Psychiatry of our organization and the Scientific Director of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. His mandate includes strengthening the academic component of the clinical mental health services offered at the Douglas Institute and our … Read more
New treatment approach could give quicker response times The discovery of a new mechanism involved in depression – and a way to target it with a drug as effective as classical antidepressants — provides new understanding of this illness and could pave the way for treatments with fewer side effects. In a study published in … Read more
Child abuse has devastating and long-lasting consequences, considerably increasing the lifetime risk of negative mental health outcomes such as depression and suicide. Yet the neurobiological processes underlying this heightened vulnerability remain poorly understood. Research done in the laboratories of the McGill Group for Suicide Studies investigated the hypothesis that epigenetic, transcriptomic, and cellular adaptations may … Read more
View a recent profile of Gustavo Turecki, in Le Monde: Gustavo Turecki, biologiste du suicide