Dozois Earns YI Award

Dozois was recently presented with a Young Investigator Award ($60,000) from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).

More than 1,000 applicants across Canada were up for the award.

"Once an individual has established a negative core set of beliefs or way of looking at the world, it's very difficult to alter," he says.

So Dozois' approach will be to see how these core set of beliefs initially develop and determine which route to solve the depression is best - cognitive or drug-based therapy.

NARSAD's Young Investigators Award Program supports the research of young promising scientists in the field of neurobiological research.

NARSAD is comprised of Nobel Prize winners, past and present directors of the National Institute of Mental Health and leaders in psychiatric research from universities and medical centres around the world.