CAMH News & Stories
In the headlines or behind the scenes, CAMH stories always aim to inform, engage, and enlighten.
New Joint CAMH-International Study Finds Major Economic and Health Benefits from Alcohol Tax Increase
Findings from major Lithuanian study offer important lessons for Canada as alcohol harms continue to rise
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Connecting ALC Patients with Dual Developmental and Psychiatric Diagnoses with Long-Term Community Housing
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Reena, and Surrey Place are working together to move patients stuck in hospital into care and housing and ease Ontario’s hospital capacity crisis.
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Study finds brain-based markers could help personalize depression treatment
Promising progress toward predicting how patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) will respond to antidepressant medications using brain imaging and clinical data
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Rise of the machines: The brave new world of neuroinformatics
Sean O'Malley, co-host Dr. David Goldbloom and Dr. Sean Hill have a fascinating discussion of the past, present and future of neuroinformatics on the CAMH podcast.
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CAMH Turns 20
20 years ago this week CAMH came to be, born of a merger between what was then called the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, the Addiction Research Foundation, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and the Donwood Institute.
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Tackling Canada’s Opioid Crisis: Help for Patients and Care Providers
A new treatment study for people with opioid addiction, and evidence-based treatment guidelines for health professionals
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Resiliency, recovery and art
Photographer Sean Patenaude discusses how Workman Arts helped him find a voice and recovery through art.
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Useful MeSH terms for Psychology Month
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Over years, depression changes the brain, new CAMH study shows
Persistent depression may need a different therapeutic approach, results suggest
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Involuntary Psychiatric Admissions Have Increased Significantly in Ontario: Study
A new study from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) covering 2009-2013, researchers found nearly three-quarters of all psychiatric hospital admissions in Ontario are involuntary.
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Indigenous experiences at CAMH
In the fourth episode of the official CAMH podcast, we discuss the past and the present of Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, and the role CAMH plays in the lives of those coping with mental illness and addiction
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Largest study of its kind finds alcohol use biggest risk factor for dementia
Nationwide observational study of over one million adults diagnosed with dementia in France finds alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia.
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