This month, Ovidiu, PhD student, shares the results of a recently published study aiming at exploring patient and clinician opinions related to the use of technology-based psychological interventions (e.g., smart phone app) for decreasing cannabis use. Discussions with 10 young adults with first episode psychosis and cannabis use disorder and 10 clinicians revealed important factors that should be addressed to…

The week of March 13th to 20th, 2021, celebrates the 18th edition of Schizophrenia Days. To underline the research efforts on this disorder, the Technopsy’21 event offers an hour of conference per day (from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.) on new technologies in support of psychoses, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and associated comorbidities. On March 17th, come and hear Didier Jutras-Aswad…

This month, Violaine unveils the results of her randomized clinical trial involving cocaine users. Her study involved 78 participants with moderate to severe cocaine use disorder who went into a 10-day detoxification period before being weekly followed for 3 months. Participants were randomly assigned to daily receive a large dose (800 mg) of cannabidiol (CBD) or placebo for 92 days.…