Every year, thousands of youth experience a mental health crisis, yet Ontario’s Wait Time Strategy data shows that these children can wait up to a year to be seen by a psychiatrist because of the severe shortage of these specialists. A ...

Simone Robinson, Co-operative education student from Henry Street High School in Whitby, comes to Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) every day, eager to face the patients she works with and learn more about working in mental ...

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) officially opened the doors to its new Research Imaging Centre -- the first of its kind in Canada where positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and genetic imaging will be ...

Josie Cassano Rizzuti didn’t recognize the troubling signs of depression when she was in the midst of perimenopause. At 41, she believed she was too young to go through such a transition. But her symptoms were beyond avoidance – complete changes ...

Margaret Trudeau is on a mission; to change the face of mental illness and to erase the stigmas associated with it. Toronto’s Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH) shares the same goal. At the beginning of November, Trudeau and the HRRH Foundation ...

When Everett was six years old, he was placed in the care of Children’s Aid. By the time he was nine, he had been shuffled from group home to group home. At one of those group homes, Everett was sexually ...

Mental health is becoming a concern for all Canadians. Incidence rates are rising and people are not receiving help early enough. This manifests itself through absenteeism, low morale, and illness. The hospital environment, a place of high stress, is no ...

When the shovel hit the ground this spring for St. Joseph’s new mental health buildings, the soil was turning on a new era. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” says Dave Crockett, vice president, facilities planning at St. ...

Pivotal research from Mount Sinai Hospital points to key genes and early molecular events implicated in common psychiatric illnesses. Specifically, three researchers under the supervision of Dr. John Roder, a senior scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount ...

Those of us who have moved from one home to another know the stress and upheaval it can cause in our lives. For patients who have been admitted to a mental health facility as part of their recovery, the challenges ...