The Department of Psychiatry boasts over 100 researchers, who work together to promote world-class investigations on issues relevant to mental health. We have a diverse group of outstanding scientists who are internationally recognized, carrying out pioneering work in all research disciplines.
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Researcher |
Site |
Focus Area of Research |
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jorge.armony [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Jorge Armony, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Emotion, fMRI, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. |
| serge.beaulieu [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Serge Beaulieu, MD, PhD) | DMHUI | Affective disorders |
| david.benrimoh [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. David Benrimoh, MD) | DMHUI | Using computational psychiatry and machine learning/artificial intelligence to understand early psychosis and psychosis onset better, to develop novel treatment protocols |
| robert.biskin [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Robert Biskin, MD) | JGH | Borderline personality disorder, self-harm |
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veronique.bohbot [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Veronique Bohbot, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Auditory and visual-spatial memory, |
| linda.booij [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Linda Booij, PhD) | DMHUI | Eating disorders, including biopsychosocial mechanisms, early risk factors and predictors of treatment outcome |
| diane.boivin [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Diane Boivin, MD, PhD) | DMHUI | Sleep, circadian rhythms, affective disorders. |
| Dr. Marie-Josée Brouillette, MD,FRCPC | MUHC | HIV and cognition Rasch analysis Interferon-alpha and depression |
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alain.brunet [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Alain Brunet, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; assessment, peritraumatic responses, longitudinal studies, early interventions, neurobiological |
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nicolas.cermakian [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Nicolas Cermakian, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Circadian rhythms in the context of mental health and immunity. |
| nicolas.cermakian [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Mallar Chakravarty, PhD) | DMHUI | Computational brain anatomy. |
| mahsa.dadar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Mahsa Dadar, PhD) | DMHI |
Neuroimaging in Aging, Cerebrovascular, and Neurodegenerative Disorders. |
| bruno.debruille [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. J. Bruno Debruille, MD, PhD) | DMHUI |
Consciousness, schizophrenia, psychosis, cognition, semantics, event-related brain potential, direct functional brain imaging. |
| simon.ducharme [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Simon Ducharme, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)) | MNI | Neuropsychiatry, frontotemporal dementia, neuroimaging, brain development and aging |
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david.dunkley [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. David M. Dunkley, PhD) |
JGH |
Cognitive-personality vulnerability to depression, self-critical perfectionism, longitudinal studies of |
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salah.elmestikawy [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Salah El Mestikawy, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Neuroscience, neurotransmission, animal models, preclinical research psychiatric disorders, post-mortem examinations of human neuropathology's. |
| frank.elgar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Frank Elgar, PhD) | Inst. for Health & Social Policy |
Social and economic determinants of health and human development. |
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Marie-Josee.Fleury [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr. Marie-Josée Fleury, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Organizational and policy analysis; mental health services evaluation; integrated service |
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cecilia.flores [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Cecilia Flores, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which experiences in adolescence alter ongoing brain development, rendering individuals susceptible or resilient to psychiatric disorders. |
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nancy.frasure-smith [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD) |
R&T |
Psychosomatics; psychosocial factors in adjustment to cardiovascular disease; mechanisms linking psychosocial factors and |
| anthony.gifuni [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Anthony Gifuni, MD, PhD, FRCPC) | DMHUI | Neural underpinnings of social processes underlying youth mood disorders and suicidality |
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bruno.giros [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Bruno Giros, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Molecular neurobiology and |
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ian.gold [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Ian Gold, PhD) |
Dept. |
Philosophy of psychiatry |
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alain.gratton [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Alain Gratton, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Function and dysfunction of Mes corticolimbic dopamine neurons; stress effects on central motivational processes; neuropeptide |
| kyle.greenway [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Kyle Greenway, MD) | LDI |
Depressive disorders, clinical trials, pharmacology, psychotherapy, ketamine and psychedelics |
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danielle.groleau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Danielle Groleau, PhD) |
JGH |
Psychocultural determinants of compliance after a heart attack; hyperemesis gravid arum in immigrant women; psycho cultural |
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reut.gruber [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Reut Gruber, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Child development, ADHD and sleep studies. |
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lily.t.hechtman [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Lily Hechtman, MD) |
MCH |
Stimulant and multimodal treatment of children, |
| srividya.iyer [at] douglas.mcgill.ca (Dr. Srividya Iyer, PhD) | DMHUI | Youth mental health and early intervention, especially for psychotic disorders in Canada and beyond |
| janique.johnson-lafleur [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Janique Johnson-Lafleur, PhD) | LDI |
Transcultural psychiatry, intercultural competence training, youth mental health and wellness, social polarizations, qualitative and mixed methods, participatory research. |
| ridha.joober [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Ridha Joober, PhD) | DMHUI | Neuroleptic resistant schizophrenia; load-responsivity of the frontal cortex in first-degree relatives of schizophrenic patients. |
| sherif.karama [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Sherif Karama, MD, PhD) | DMHUI | neurobiological underpinnings of cognitive ability change throughout the lifespan |
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laurence.kirmayer [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD) |
R&T |
Cultural psychiatry; psychiatric anthropology; philosophy of psychiatry; mental health of Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees; global mental health |
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eric.latimer [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Eric A. Latimer, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Economic analysis of mental health programs; Assertive Community Treatment; economic issues related to supported employment for |
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katie.lavigne [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Katie M. Lavigne, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Cognition, neuroimaging, psychosis, transdiagnostic, digital health, neuroinformatics |
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martin.lepage [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Martin Lepage, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Cerebral organization of human memory in healthy and psychiatric populations using functional neuroimaging techniques such as |
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marco.leyton [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Marco Leyton, PhD) |
R&T |
The neurobiology of addictions and addiction-related neuropsychiatric disorders, as studied with PET/fMRI, drug challenges, and other neurotransmitter manipulation strategies. |
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eva.libman [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Eva Libman) |
JGH |
Sleep, chronic fatigue syndromes, behavioral medicine. |
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naguib.mechawar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Naguib Mechawar, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Glia, neuroplasticity, and neuroinflammation in depression and suicide. |
| romina.mizrahi [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Romina Mizrahi, MD, PhD) | DMHUI | Clinical Pharmacology; Neuropharmacology; Psychopharmacology Imaging Brain Chemistry in Psychosis and Patients at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis |
| majid.mohajerani [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Majid Mohajerani, PhD) | DMHUI | Aging, Cognition, and Alzheimer’s Disease |
| maxime.montembeault [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Maxime Montembeault, PhD) | DMHUI |
Neurodegenerative diseases (primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s disease), Language, Social cognition, Emotions, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging |
| naguib.mechawar [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Corina Nagy, PhD) | DMHUI | Depression, single-cell molecular neurobiology, functional genomics, epigenetics, sex difference |
| massimiliano.orri [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Massimiliano Orri, PhD) | DMHUI |
Risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harming behavior across the lifespan using methods from psychiatric epidemiology, developmental psychopathology, and behavioral genetics traditions |
| lena.palaniyappan [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, MD, PhD) | DMHUI |
Youth mental health, Early intervention, Psychosis, Depression, ADHD, Neuroimaging, Brain Stimulation, Speech and Language, Machine Learning |
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michel.perreault [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Michel Perreault, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Evaluation of health service systems and development and validation of measures of expectation and satisfaction of patients and |
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myra.piat [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Myra Piat, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Recovery, mental health, consumer perspective, participatory research, housing, peer support, caregivers, qualitative methodology, evaluation |
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judes.poirier [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Judes Poirier, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Alzheimer's/neurodegenerative diseases, genetics and pharmacogenomics. |
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remi.quirion [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Rémi Quirion, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Alzheimer's disease, neuropeptides, neuroprotection, cell death and psychiatric illnesses. |
| maria.rajah [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Rachel Rabin, PhD) | DMHUI | Effects of drugs of abuse on cognitive function in psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia) and non-psychiatric populations |
| jesse.renaud [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Jess Renaud, PhD) | MUHC |
Enhancing the delivery and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy; clinical supervision and training Enhancing the delivery and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy; clinical supervision and training |
| dorrie.rizzo [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Dorrie Rizzo, PhD) | JGHG | |
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joseph.rochford [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Joseph Rochford, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Behavioral pharmacology of learning, memory, and motivation; the influence of learning on pain sensitivity; behavioral effects of anxiolytic and |
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pedro.rosa [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Pedro Rosa-Neto, MD, MSc, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Translational neuroimaging, human and animal imaging, PET, MRI, neurodegenerative disease, dementia. Director of Translational |
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cecile.rousseau [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Cecile Rousseau, MD) |
CSSS |
Cultural psychiatry; mental health and adaptation of refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America, and Somalia. |
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norbert.schmitz [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Patricia Silveira, PhD)
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DMHUI | Biology of developmental mechanisms in the risk for chronic adult disease. |
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l.srivastava [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Lalit K. Srivastava, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Role of developmental mechanisms in the etiopathology of schizophrenia, brain dopamine receptor regulation, biochemical and genetic |
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florian.storch [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Florian Storch, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Circadian rhythms and mouse genetics. |
| eszter.szekely [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Eszter Szekely, PhD) | LDI | Integration of complex genomic, neuroimaging, and behavioral data to study developmental psychopathology. |
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brett.thombs [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Brett D. Thombs, PhD) |
JGH |
Mental health screening, clinical trials, patient-engaged research, mental health in people with medical conditions, rare diseases, meta-research. |
| nicolas.tritsch [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Nicolas Tritsch, PhD) | DMHUI | |
| gustavo.turecki [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD) | DMHUI | Suicide, depressive disorders, functional genomics, epigenetics, early-life adversity, gene-environment interaction, neurobiology. |
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claire-dominique.walker [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Claire-Dominique Walker, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Influence of stress on reproductive functions during Lactation in the rat and developmental |
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robert.whitley [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Rob Whitley, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Recovery, Stigma, Men’s Mental Health, Veterans’ Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Participatory Video, Religion and Mental Health. |
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sylvain.williams [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Sylvain Williams, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Studies on the cause of Alzheimer's Disease using electrophysiology and other techniques to better understand the physiological interactions |
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takpan.wong [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Tak Pan Wong, PhD) |
DMHUI |
Impact of stress on the brain; studies of how stress produces abnormality in synaptic transmission and impairment of memory |
| yashar.zeighami [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Yashar Zeighami, PhD) | DMHUI | Brain Aging in Health and Disease |