Dr. Romina Mizrahi has been elected as a Board Member of the (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.
New outpatient centre in Montreal helps teens in suicidal crisis.
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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 Â鶹AV’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 Â鶹AV, 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’empĂŞche, des Ă©tudes montrent un fossĂ© grandissant entre les menaces perçues – terroristes, pandĂ©miques, etc. – et les dangers rĂ©els, souligne la Dre CĂ©cile Rousseau, pĂ©dopsychiatre et professeure au dĂ©partement de psychiatrie Ă Â鶹AV. « La perception du risque n’a pas de relation directe avec le risque rĂ©el ou avec l’exposition au risque », rĂ©sume-t-elle.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2022
Maman pourquoi tu pleures?
Le documentaire traitant de la santé mental périnatale est une idée originale de Jessica Barker est disponible sur Noovo.ca
....Afin d’approfondir le sujet, Jessica Barker sollicite Ă©galement les tĂ©moignages de spĂ©cialistes provenant du milieu de la santĂ© comme la Dre Tuong Vi Nguyen, psychiatre au Centre Universitaire de SantĂ© Â鶹AV.
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Published on: 4 Feb 2022
Eating disorders among Quebecers skyrocket during pandemic
...Since the COVID-19 crisis began in March 2020, referrals to an eating disorders program at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute increased by 45 per cent. “It’s really quite striking. That figure resembles what I have heard from colleagues all over the world,” said Dr. Howard Steiger, who runs the program.
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Published on: 4 Feb 2022
Brownstein: Pandemic brings more challenges to Douglas Hospital
...Dr. Johan Cohen, a psychiatrist and head of the emergency room at the Douglas, has nothing but praise for the efforts of his fellow staffers.
“These are such difficult times for the patients and staff,” Cohen says. “At the beginning, we had no vaccines and we really had to come together to deal with it all. And then came the short staffing issues. Let’s just say we really had to learn to adapt quickly to ever-changing circumstances.”
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Published on: 3 Feb 2022
Nouvelle étude: les jeux vidéo liés à des symptômes associés au TDAH
…D’oĂą l’importance pour les familles de bien encadrer le temps-Ă©cran Ă la maison, dès l’enfance. Un adolescent ne devrait pas passer plus de deux heures par jour devant un Ă©cran, pour ses loisirs, indique Mme Fitzpatrick. VĂ©ronique Bohbot, de l’UniversitĂ© Â鶹AV, de mĂŞme que Gregory West et Elroy Boers, de l’UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, ont aussi collaborĂ© Ă cette Ă©tude.
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Published on: 1 Feb 2022
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