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
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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
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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.
Results of the September 2013 CIHR Operating Grants Competition
Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the CIHR operating grants competition. (Posted January 31, 2014)
Frank J Elgar Social, economic and policy influences on social inequalities in adolescent health: a cross-national comparative study in 43 countries (1986-2014)
Bruno J Giros A pharmacological approach to reduce cognitive deficits in psychosis: Targeting of the dopamine D1 receptors.
New Interim Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Montreal Children's Hospital
It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Lila Amirali has accepted to act as Interim Head of the Department of Psychiatry of the Montreal Children’s Hospital as well as Interim Division Chief of Child Psychiatry. This new leadership role has been in effect since January 1, 2014. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Amirali in her new position.
Please note that a Search Committee for a permanent Department Head will be organized in the near future.
New Program Director for Geriatric Psychiatry: Dr. Jess Friedland
It is our pleasure to announce Dr. Jess Friedland as the new Program Director for Geriatric Psychiatry.
Spotlight on Dr. Simon Young
In this week’s Spotlight, we would like to highlight Dr. Simon Young who will be setting his sights on a well-deserved retirement as Emeritus Professor after 42 years with the McGill Department of Psychiatry.
Douglas-Based Research Team Obtains $1.5 Million to Study a New Method of Neuronal Communication
Salah El Mestikawy, PhD, a researcher at The Douglas Institute, along with his research team, have received $1.5 million to explore the dual signalling capacity of neurons. This research grant is one of five new Multi-Investigator Research Initiative (MIRI) grants awarded by Brain Canada with funds from the Canada Brain Research Fund and Partners. The Douglas team will work with colleagues at the University of Western Ontario.