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Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Centre for Clinical Neurosciences

About Us

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.

Mission

Translating neuroscience into clinical practice.

VISION & VALUES

The CCN brings together key faculty from the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, the Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, and other partners from McMaster University.

It takes a societal as well as a clinical perspective and will emphasize the translation and application of new knowledge and discoveries to individual patient’s organizations (improving treatment efficacy across a system) and communities (population focus).

By understanding clinical outcomes at early stages and developing better personalized treatment plans for psychiatric patients; and towards further development and testing of risk calculators for complex outcomes such as disability.

OUR PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES

The Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and the Research Institute of St Joe’s 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 Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton are currently setting up a program of collaborative research and educational activities for clinical neurosciences.