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About Gustavo Turecki
- Gustavo Turecki (born May 11, 1965) is a Canadian psychiatrist and professor at McGill University.
- He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Tier in Major Depressive Disorder and Suicide.
- He is the sitting Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and works at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, where he heads both the McGill Group for Suicide Studies and the Depressive Disorders Program.
- He is also the director of the FRQS/FRQSC-funded Quebec Network on Suicide, Mood Disorders and Related Disorders, and the co-director of the Douglas Bell-Canada Brain Bank.As a clinician and neuroscientist, his research focuses on examining the influence of life experiences on brain function, and their relationship to depression and suicide risk.
- Among his major contributions, published in over 400 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, is the first description of the long-term impact of childhood abuse on the brain, particularly how it affects the activity of key genes involved in stress-response.
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