Management
The AMH Initiative is led by Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD at the Douglas Research Centre and McGill University, and Elisabeth Binder, MD, PhD at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Having contributed significantly to the understanding of how environmental stimuli act on brain and body function and subsequently influence mental health, the two institutions bring complementary expertise and strengths in basic and translational research, with particular emphasis on the impacts of stress in early life. The AMH Initiative builds on the complementarity of their research to create a unique program mapping the biological embedding of adversity to mental health. Responsible for the scientific and administrative direction, the executive committee is composed of the Lead PIs and the Coordinators at each site.
Lead PI:
Gustavo Turecki
AMH Coordinator: Germaine Lowe
Lead PI:
Elisabeth Binder
AMH Coordinator: Heike Junkert
Research steering committee
The research steering committee contributes to the determination of overall joint goals and efforts, including identifying relevant new joint research projects, planning joint retreats and scientific symposia, and facilitating trainee exchanges.
Bertram Müller-Myhsok, PhD
Cecilia Flores, PhD
Corina Nagy, PhD
Danilo Bzdok, PhD
Darina Czamara, PhD
Dominique Walker, PhD
Jan Deussing, PhD
Janine Knauer-Arloth, PhD
Mathias Schmidt, PhD
Naguib Mechawar, PhD
Patricia Silveira, MD, PhD
Victor Spoormaker, PhD
Principal Investigators
Adolescent brain development and susceptibility to psychopathology
Neuromolecular and brain cell specific underpinnings of mood disorders
Data-guided analysis techniques for large datasets from a systems neuroscience perspective
Early stress, maternal regulation and neuroendocrine development
Major Depressive Disorder and Suicide
Neuroanatomy of mood disorders and suicide
Patricia Pelufo Silveira, MD, PhD
Early life adversity and the co-morbidity between metabolic and psychiatric disease
Statistical Genetics
Translational Research in Psychiatry
Translational Research in Psychiatry
Genetics, epigenetics and neural circuits of stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders
Medical Genomics
Neurobiology of Stress Resilience
Psychophysiology
