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Youth Mental Health is a pressing global challenge. The Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, together with McGill University, the Douglas Research Centre, and the CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal are poised to address it together.
Investing in Youth Mental Health is investing in our future
Our Centre is not a service provider. Need help? Call 1-800-668-6868 or visit kidshelpphone.ca. In crisis? Dial 911 or your local service provider. Additional mental health resources can be found here.
CEYMH News
July 2025:
We are thrilled to share that our collaborator’s proposal from Nova Scotia, “Early Identification of Risk for Major Depressive Disorder from Parent and Youth Speech,” has received a positive CIHR decision.
The project has been officially approved and funded by CIHR for a duration of four years. Congratulations to the entire team on this exciting achievement!
July 2025:
Congratulations to our CIHR Project Grant Recipients!
CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published today. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have secured nearly $2M – congratulations to our successful applicants, and thank you to Dr. Dominique Walker, who chairs the Internal Grant Review Committee, as well as to all the researchers who gave their time to review their colleagues’ applications.
The official results will be posted here
June 23, 2025:
CEYMH Director Dr. Lena Palaniyappan is listed in the top 10 of Highly Ranked Scholars™ in the field of schizophrenia: he is ranked 9th internationally and 1st in Canada!
Congratulations to Dr. Palaniyappan and the teams in Montreal, QC and London, ON.
See the ScholarGPS Ranking for the last 5 years here.
June 19, 2025:
PhD Candidate Jessica Ahrens is awarded the annual Leyton Addiction Research Prize for her paper, “Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System”!
Read more about the recently published JAMA Psychiatry paper here: The Dopamine Link: What Neuromelanin Tells Us About Cannabis and Psychosis.
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