Congratulations to the CIHR 2016 Project Grant and Bridge Grant winners!
Dear colleagues,
Congratulations to Dr. Gustavo Turecki on being granted Tier 1-Canada Research Chair in Major Depressive Disorder and Suicide. Ìý
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Dr. Gustavo Turecki was awarded Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards NARSAD Distinguished investigator Grant.
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Awards Night 2016
Dear Residents and Faculty,
The Resident Awards Night took place at the Thomson House on November 24th. I would like to thank the MPRA and the Department of Psychiatry for making this a special evening where we were able to honor Faculty and Resident achievements.
Faculty Awards
Best Clinical Supervisor for Senior residents
Winner: Dr. Viviane Zicherman
Dr. Lila Amirali parle de l'axiété et de ce qui peut engendrer une phobie scolaire chez les enfants en documentaire,Ìý"Société de Performance".
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Dr. Peter Roper has been awarded the rank of Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour.
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) is the highest French order of distinctionÌýestablished by Napoleon Bonaparte in May 1802.Ìý
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Gustavo Turecki on being awarded Le prix Acfas Léo-Pariseau 2016
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DUBROVSKY, Dr. Bernardo O., MD
November 28, 1938 – October 7, 2016
Dear students and supervisors,
I hope you all had an enjoyable summer. I am writing to inform you of two important new benefits offered by our graduate program:
First, I am pleased to announce that, effective immediately, a differential fee waiver will be offered to international students registered in the Graduate Program in Psychiatry. Specifically, the differential between international and Quebec fees will be covered by the Program for M.Sc. students during their first year and Ph.D. students during their first two years. Ìý
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It is with great sadness that we wish to announce the sudden death (due to a massive stroke) of Dr. Klaus Minde on July 6th, 2016.
Dr. Minde was one of the early members of the Division of Child and AdolescentÌýPsychiatryÌýat º«¹úÂãÎè and in that role, helped establish it as one of the first and leading Child Psychiatry Departments in Canada and North America.
Study reveals the impact of night work
You cross paths with him at the break of dawn in the corridors of the Metro. He looks bleary-eyed and pallid. This worker’s night shift just ended. His body clocks are out of sync with one another, and, imperceptibly, they’re also out of sync with his environment. In the long run, this night owl could be at greater risk of developing cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases or certain types of cancer.
Neurofeedback using electroencephalograpy boasts thousands of practitioners and appears to both improve normal brain function and alleviate a wide variety of mental disorders – from anxiety to alcoholism. But after examining the scientific literature and consulting experts in Europe and the U.S., º«¹úÂãÎè researchers Robert Thibault and Amir Raz conclude that clinical improvements from this increasingly popular alternative therapy are due to placebo effects.
By Fergus Grieve,Ìýº«¹úÂãÎè Newsroom
Depression, metabolic factors combine to boost risk of developing diabetes, study findsÌý
Depression may compound the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with early warning signs of metabolic disease, according to researchers from º«¹úÂãÎè, l'Université de Montréal,Ìýthe Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and the University of Calgary.