Deslauriers Lab

10/02/2024

Oyé oyé!
Envie d'en savoir plus sur la santé mentale et ce qu'on fait en recherche pour améliorer le diagnostic et les soins?
Venez en apprendre plus à travers le récit de patients, cliniciens, et chercheurs qui se partageront la scène en compagnie de l'excellent P.A. Méthot!
Les profits engendrés par la vente des billets seront utilisés pour la création d'une bourse promouvant la recherche d'un étudiant-chercheur en santé mentale.
Les billets seront bientôt en vente sur le site de l'Impérial Bell. Stay tuned!
D'ici là, mettez à votre agenda la soirée du 18 novembre 2024

07/15/2024

🟢 Publication Alert! 🟢

Our lab reviewed findings on how small vesicles, secreted by brain cells and releasing inflammation in the blood, may be a step towards better diagnosis and personalized treatments for psychotic disorders 🧠👀

11/28/2023

🔔 FUNDING Alert!! 🎉

The Deslauriers Lab and colleagues have been awarded an amount of $450K for a project aiming to target innovative biomarkers of prognosis, treatment response, and relapse in patients with psychotic disorders and past psychotrauma history. We will also investigate the psychotraumatic effects of the psychotic experience itself (symptoms, hospitalization). Theses funds are covered by a partnership between the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé and Janssen, Inc.

De gauche à droite : Julie Couture, directrice de la recherche, Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux; Pierre Fitzgibbon, ministre de l’Économie,

10/19/2023

**English version follows**

Le Deslauriers Lab recrute!

La Faculté de pharmacie de l'Université Laval et la Fondation de la famille Morris et Rosalind Goodman sont fières de s'associer pour le premier concours de bourse d'études doctorales en sciences pharmaceutiques.

Ce programme vise à recruter d'excellent(e)s étudiant(e)s diplômé(e)s du monde entier pour s'inscrire à un programme de doctorat en sciences pharmaceutiques à la Faculté de pharmacie de l'Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Les personnes candidates doivent faire preuve de compétences exceptionnelles dans leur formation antérieure en sciences de la vie, ainsi que d'une forte détermination à développer des concepts novateurs et à générer des découvertes et des avancées technologiques révolutionnaires pour aider les patients à améliorer leur santé et leur qualité de vie.

Pour tous les détails et pour s’inscrire : https://www.pha.ulaval.ca/recherche/bourses-detudes-doctorales-goodman

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Deslauriers Lab is recruiting!!!

Hello,

The Faculty of Pharmacy at Université Laval and the Morris & Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation are proud to partner for the first doctoral studentship competition in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

This Program seeks outstanding graduate students from around the globe to enroll in a PhD program in pharmaceutical sciences in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada). Candidates should demonstrate exceptional skills in their previous training in life sciences along with a strong determination to develop innovative concepts and make ground-breaking discoveries and technology to help patients achieve better health and quality of life.

For all the details and to apply : https://www.pha.ulaval.ca/en/research/translate-to-english-bourses-detudes-doctorales-goodman

09/15/2023

Mental health needs new and better treatments; how do we get there faster? This new article about Digital and Precision clinical trial techniques provides a roadmap. https://rdcu.be/dlYyd

09/15/2023

🟢 Publication Alert! 🟢

Dr Tremblay's lab and our lab published findings on how ketogenic diet may help alleviating the effects of chronic stress via the decrease of inflammation in the hippocampus, a brain region relevant to memory/cognitive function 🧠👀

Psychological stress confers an increased risk for several diseases including psychiatric conditions. The susceptibility to psychological stress is mo…

09/15/2023

Great book for a public, non-scientist audience 👏
*Available French version "Le corps n'oublie rien"*

Written by an internationally reknowned psychiatrist and Distinguised Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

It is well known that our "fight-or-flight" response facing a traumatic event may be the result of past childhood trauma and/or the environment in which we grew as a child. Importantly, our childhood may wire our brain, explaining how we respond to a trauma during adulthood.

This book explains what happens in our brain in such a smooth, popularized, and comprehensible way.

Because psychological resilience is not about whether we develop PTSD resilience or not, it's about being able to recognize what makes us how we are today, then rewire our thoughts (and brain patterns!).

Our lab definitely recommends this book!🎗

09/14/2023

In our lab we value equity, diversity, and inclusion as a strength for better scientific rigor, communication, and collaboration 🙌

09/14/2023

Women are more likely to develop PTSD, suggesting potential sex-specific mechanisms underlying the dichotomous prevalence of PTSD in men and women. Our lab examined the available literature to highlight the key findings from both human and animal studies, and to help overcoming limitations and filling the knowledge gap 🧠👩‍🔬

Altered immune function in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may play a role in the disorder pathophysiology and onset. Women are more likely to develop PTSD, suggesting potential sex-specific inflammatory mechanisms underlying the dichotomous prevalence and risk of PTSD in men and....