CAMH News & Stories
In the headlines or behind the scenes, CAMH stories always aim to inform, engage, and enlighten.
Orchestral Music Meets Mental Health: CAMH Clients Collaborate on New Work with Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Art of Healing program brings the World Première of a new piece by Indigenous composer Cris Derksen—shaped through workshops with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis clients of CAMH—to Roy Thomson Hall on April 30 and May 1, 2026.
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Behind the Wheel: Inside Canada's Leading Driving Research Lab
How innovative simulation technology and multidisciplinary research are helping shape safer roads across Canada
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Large confirmatory clinical trial shows efficacy and safety of new brain stimulation therapy for depression
Magnetic seizure therapy could expand options to life-saving treatment without significant cognitive side effects
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Men and women have opposite genetic changes in depression
A new study examines sex-specific molecular changes in major depressive disorder.
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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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