Check out our blog post on the National Addictions Awareness Week on the power of language. Read More We are excited to announce that one of the BRAIN Lab’s primary research sites has moved to the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, which has replaced the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (BCMHA). Red Fish is a patient-centred in-patient treatment center that provides care for people with the […] Read More Congratulations to Professor Christian Schütz, the BRAIN Lab director, on being promoted to Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia. Read More
The Power of Language: We Choose The Narrative of Addiction
BRAIN Lab’s Research Site has Moved to The Red Fish
BRAIN News: Promotion
What we do
The BRAIN Lab focuses on the psycho-neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognitive, affective, and stress-associated aspects of decision-making and impulsivity: specifically, those related to substance use and concurrent mental disorders.
A better understanding of the brain and mind, along with comprehensive models, is essential for treatment development. New approaches are critical in reducing addiction and improving mental health. The BRAIN Lab explores promising new methods, such as retraining approach habits, electrophysiological treatments and integrated psychotherapy/psychedelic interventions.
We use subjective assessments, behavioural testing and neuroimaging to study psychopathology and the outcomes of interventions. At the BRAIN Lab, we aim to deepen our understanding and facilitate more effective interventions for individuals living with substance use and mental disorders.
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