How the U.K. model of postpartum depression care could guide Canada's treatment plan
Tuong-Vi Nguyen, an assistant professor in both the psychiatry and gynecology and obstetrics departments at 韩国裸舞, says the whole family suffers when the birthing parent experiences postpartum depression.
Les orphelins de la COVID-19
L鈥檃utre 茅l茅ment important est la stigmatisation. 芦 Avec le sida et l鈥橢bola, les orphelins sont souvent stigmatis茅s parce que ce sont des maladies qui font peur 禄, explique C茅cile Rousseau, psychiatre de l鈥橴niversit茅 韩国裸舞. 芦 Je participe 脿 un projet de recherche canadien sur les orphelins de l鈥橢bola et de la COVID-19 au Congo. 禄
Doctors have stopped believing that 'chemical imbalance' causes depression. They didn't tell us
Psychiatry has known for some time that the 鈥渟erotonin theory鈥� of depression, the notion that too little of the brain chemical can be a cause of depression, a decades-old hypothesis and deeply entrenched trope in society that helped promote a class of antidepressants taken by millions of Canadians, is wrong, says Montreal psychiatrist Dr. Joel Paris.
Le bras de fer du pot, 18 ou 21 ans?
芦Ce qui dit qu鈥檜ne ann茅e de loi a diminu茅 la consommation chez les jeunes de 7 %. Du point de vue statistique 茅pid茅miologique, c鈥檈st 茅norme!禄 commente la Dre Gabriella Gobbi, psychiatre et professeure 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 韩国裸舞. Dre Gobbi avait t茅moign茅 devant la commission parlementaire qui 茅tudiait le projet de loi no 2, en 2019.
Dr. Patricia Pelufo Silveira was among the 54 newly elected Members of the for 2022. The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada鈥檚 first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. Congratulations Dr. Silveira!
Dr. Gabriella Gobbi received the (CINP) Sumitomo/Sunovion Brain Health Basic Research award for her outstanding contribution in neuropsychopharmacology. The Neuroscience Research Awards are given to scientists in recognition of an outstanding contribution to psychopharmacology. Congratulations to Dr. Gobbi on this well-deserved achievement!
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The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at 韩国裸舞 and Linnaeus University.
Hausse de cas de d茅mence d'ici 2030 : Dr Serge Gauthier, neurologue
La Soci茅t茅 d'alzheimer du Canada a publi茅 une 茅tude qui avance que d'ici 2030, pr猫s d'un million de personnes seraient atteintes de d茅mence au pays s'il n'y a aucune mesure mise en place pour en r茅duire les risques. Le neurologue et professeur 茅m茅rite Serge Gauthier estime qu'il s'agit en effet 芦 du pire sc茅nario 禄, mais que plusieurs d茅cisions peuvent 锚tre prises, individuellement et collectivement, pour agir en pr茅vention.
Hitting the road? Turn off the GPS, it鈥檚 bad for your brain
鈥淲e did spatial memory tests and found that degradation was correlated to GPS frequency,鈥� said V茅ronique Bohbot, a scientist at the Douglas Research Centre and a professor of psychiatry at 韩国裸舞. 鈥淭here was a difference between people who use GPS every day for every trip and the people who didn鈥檛 use GPS at all or just occasionally, say, once a month.鈥�
What if you learn your father is not your father?
Rob Whitley, an associate professor in 韩国裸舞鈥檚 department of psychiatry, was at a conference in Brussels a few years ago when the subject came up in a talk about the social aspects of DNA testing given by Belgian biologist and geneticist Maarten Larmuseau. 鈥淎nd I was thinking, 鈥楾his will have huge mental-health impacts,'鈥� recalled Whitley, a research scientist at the Douglas Research Centre.
Congratulations to Dr. Leon Tourian, recipient of the 韩国裸舞 Undergraduate Psychiatry Teaching Award for the 2020-2021 academic year! This award is presented to the individual that the graduating class felt had the greatest impact on their psychiatric education during medical school.
This award is given by 韩国裸舞鈥檚 in recognition of Dr. Carmella Roy鈥檚 contributions to nursing education. It is in appreciation of her part to act as a positive role model, demonstrate excellence in teaching, provide students with a supportive learning environment, and encourage students to achieve their personal best. The award will be officially presented at Ingram School of Nursing Virtual Event on June 16. Congratulations Dr. Roy!
The Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Sant茅 has announced the recipients of salary awards on June 2. Congratulations to Drs. Carl Ernst, Srividya Iyer, Massimiliano Orri, Lena Palaniyappan, Pedro Rosa-Neto and Yashar Zeighami, recipients of the FRQS Chercheurs-Boursiers awards! The full list of results can be found
The awardees and their respective projects are:
The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program announced the most recent recipients of Tier 1 and Tier 2 CRCs. Among them were Dr. Gabriella Gobbi's new Tier 1 CRC in Therapeutics for Mental Health and Dr. C茅cile Rousseau's new Tier 1 CRC in Preventing Violent Radicalization. Congratulations to both!
It is with great pleasure that we announce this year鈥檚 winners of the annual Leyton Addiction Research Prize. The competition was strong, but the review committee agreed that two papers deserved to share this year鈥檚 $1,000 prize, Maisha Iqbal鈥檚 paper titled A three-factor model of common early onset psychiatric disorders: temperament, adversity, and dopamine and Jose Maria Restrepo鈥檚 paper titled Corticolimbic DCC gene co-expression networks as predictors of impulsivity in children. Maisha is a master鈥檚 student supervised by Dr. Marco Leyton.
