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Message from the Director, Benicio Frey
Over 400 million persons worldwide suffer from a mental disorder, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and developmental disorders such as autism. Most major severe mental illnesses are highly heritable, have strong genetic underpinnings, emerge in childhood and adolescence, and run a lifelong chronic course. A better understanding and treatment of mental health is a major unmet need.
The Centre for Clinical Neurosciences (CCN) is a research hub for psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences. The CCN uses a multidisciplinary approach to better understand mechanisms sustaining mental health and further apply these to develop new treatments. In this way, the CCN bridges the gap between research and the clinic.
OUR PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES
The Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with the world-renown Pasteur Institute in Paris to create a partnership and possibly establish a Pasteur International Unit in Hamilton. To achieve this, through the CCN, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton are currently setting up a program of collaborative research and educational activities for clinical neurosciences.
