Professor Michael Meaney 2014 Wilder-Penfield Prize- Prix du Québec
Professor Michael Meaney is awarded the Wilder-Penfield prize in recognition of his groundbreaking achievements in the biology of child development. Also recently winning the 2014 Klaus J.
In the news: How stress affects unborn babies- Dr. King
To read more about how stress affects unborn babies in Dr. King's article, click on the link below.
http://forumblog.org/2014/10/stress-affects-unborn-babies/?utm_content=buffera4145&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
In the news: Dr. Alain Brunet speaks about post-traumatic stress
Click on the link below to read the article, and listen to Dr. Alain Brunet speak about post-traumatic stress in French.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/les_eclaireurs/2014-2015/chronique.asp?idChronique=353235
Professor Michael Meaney as the 2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Laureate
McGill 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.
Annoucement from the Program Office
Annoucement from the Program Office
Dear Residents and Faculty,

Spotlight on Dr. Sherif Karama
Dr. Karama is a McGill-trained general psychiatrist with research training in brain imaging and genetics. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the Université de Montréal. 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.
Department of Psychiatry Newsletter - Summer 2014
Click to view: Department of Psychiatry Newsletter - Summer 2014
Results of the March 2014 CIHR Operating Grants Competition
Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the CIHR operating grants competition. (Posted July 4, 2014)
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.
Student Research Day, Award Recipients
Congratulations to the award recipients of the 2014 Student Research Day!
Ian Blum, FRSQ Top Presentation Prize, Douglas (supervisor: Dr. Kai-Florian Storch)A novel neurological mechanism driving rhythms of dopamine release

Spotlight on Dr. Brett Thombs
With this issue of the spotlight, we would like to congratulate Dr. Brett Thombs who is the recipient of the 2014 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emergent Researchers. This award was created in 2013 to encourage and celebrate McGill’s most outstanding earl-career researchers, as well as to provide them with an advantage as they apply for external awards by adding a prestigious internal distinction to their list of accomplishments.
Department of Psychiatry Newsletter - Winter 2014
Click to view: Department of Psychiatry Newsletter - Winter 2014

Leyton Addiction Research Prize, 2014
February 17, 2014
Subject: Leyton Addiction Research Prize
Dear Colleagues,

Spotlight on Dr. Laurence J Kirmayer
This week, we would like to spotlight Dr. Laurence J Kirmayer, a James McGill Professor and the Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. He is also editor-in-chief of Transcultural Psychiatry (the official journal of the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association), which was founded at McGill and celebrated its 50th volume on October 25, 2013.

9,8 millions de dollars pour créer un centre spécialisé en recherche sur la dépression et le suicide

Dr. Gabriella Gobbi's Research applauded by national and international media
Dr. Gabriella Gobbi’s recent revolutionary research, “Father Absence in the Monogamous California Mouse Impairs Social Behavior and Modifies Dopamine and Glutamate Synapses in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex” (Cerebral CORTEX, Oxford Journals) highlighting the importance of fathers in both neurobiology and behavior of offspring has been featured by numerous media outlets.