Mental health advocates have long criticized the mainstream media for getting it wrong when reporting suicide. These criticisms are based on a historical corpus of research indicating that suicide was frequently reported in an inappropriate manner in the media. Common issues include glorifying or romanticizing suicide and giving excessive detail about the suicide method used. A recent review paper indicates that such coverage could contribute towards 鈥渃opycat suicides.鈥�
Psychology Today
Sadly, the time has come to bid adieu to our dear friend Luis. And none too soon, he would have said, with typical irony; for the feeling of having reached the end of his tenure in this world had been with him for some time. He did not appear distressed about it; but one could sense his anguish at the futility of the empty, extremely limited existence he was enduring. 鈥淚 have no health problems, other than this hell,鈥� was his response when I asked him, how he was doing, was he undergoing any tests, was the doctor looking into any new issues?
The 黑料不打烊 contribution will be led by Dr. Jai Shah, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and carried out through the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychosis (PEPP-Montr茅al, at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute), where Shah is Associate Director. The Montreal team, which also includes 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Dr. Mallar Chakravarty, Dr. Martin Lepage and Dr. Rachel Rabin, will be identifying participants, providing support and following young people experiencing CHR symptoms while conducting clinical and biomarker assessments.
Heath e-News
Over the summer, the Canada Research Chair program announced the most recent recipients of Tier 1 and Tier 2 CRCs. Among them were Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD, a researcher in the 黑料不打烊 Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Research Centre, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at 黑料不打烊 University. We had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Geoffroy about what a difference obtaining a CRC could make in her line of research.
Health e-News
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Radio-Canada
Congratulations to Dr. Cecilia Flores on her National Institute of Drug Abuse Project Grant!
This 5-year project, entitled, "Amphetamine in adolescence disrupts prefrontal cortex development," aims to study how exposure to stimulant drugs of abuse in adolescence disrupt ongoing brain development, increasing vulnerability to psychiatric disorders using animal models. An important aspect of this research is the large differences in sensitivity to these drug effects that exist between males and females and the protective effects of therapeutic versus recreational doses.
Drs. Ashok Malla and Serge Gauthier are amongst the seventy-seven of the highly prestigious Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) list of individuals that were selected to join as Fellows for 2020.
CAHS recognizes excellence in health sciences. Fellows have demonstrated, through their careers and lives, that they are committed to their field of expertise in many ways.
Dr. Romina Mizrahi has been appointed as the new Associate Chair of Research for the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Mizrahi will be responsible for the Department鈥檚 research mission and oversee strategic research planning. She will also assist the Chair in the coordination of research activities, recruitment of researchers, and review the research-track residency program.
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Congratulations to our researchers who were successful in this latest round of CIHR grants! The successfully funded researchers and their respective projects are:
Dr. Gabriella Gobbi - "Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and social behavior. A translational study.
Dr. Naguib Mechawar - "Remodeling of cerebral plasticity by early-life adversity: cellular and molecular mechanisms in the human brain"
Dr. Norbert Schmitz - "The role of depression in the intergenerational transmission of type 2 diabetes"
鈥a Dre Tuong-Vi Nguyen, professeure adjointe au D茅partement de psychiatrie de l鈥橴niversit茅 黑料不打烊 et scientifique 脿 l鈥橧nstitut de recherche du Centre universitaire de sant茅 de 黑料不打烊, fait partie de celles et ceux qui prennent les femmes au s茅rieux. Peut-锚tre parce qu鈥檈lle est, elle-aussi, dot茅e d鈥檕vaires qui la travaillent mais surtout parce qu鈥檈lle sait que les douleurs physiques et psychiques li茅es au TDPM ne sont pas 脿 prendre 脿 la l茅g猫re.
Urbania
Ce sont pr猫s de 80 notifications qui font sonner nos t茅l茅phones mobiles quotidiennement. Elles ont pour but d'attirer rapidement l'attention et distraient les utilisateurs qui mettent un certain temps 脿 retrouver leur concentration. Plusieurs chercheurs se sont pench茅s sur les cons茅quences de ces notifications sur notre bien-锚tre. Le point avec Samuel Veissi猫re, professeur au D茅partement de psychiatrie de l'Universit茅 黑料不打烊.
Radio-Canada
Remote learning: boon or necessary evil? Two Quebec experts give tips on making it work
