Dr. Synthia Guimond is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology at the University of Quebec in Outaouais and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. She is also a scientist at the Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) and the director of the Cognitive Remediation and Neuroimaging laboratory.
Dr. Guimond completed her Bachelor’s (2009) and Master’s (2011) degrees in Psychology at the University of Montreal. She obtained her PhD in Experimental Psychology at McGill University in 2016, and completed a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
The main goal of Dr. Guimond’s research is to develop evidence-based treatments to improve cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders, and ultimately, enhance patients’ social and professional integration. She also aims to investigate the brain mechanisms underpinning cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Guimond’s research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the New Frontiers Research Fund (NFRF) from the tri-agency councils, the NARSAD William Risser Charitable Trust Investigator/Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the IMHR’s Emerging Research Innovators in Mental Health (eRIMh) incubator program, the University Medical Research Fund (UMRF), and the FRQS Research Scholar Junior 1.
When Dr. Guimond is not working, you can find her hiking with her family in Gatineau Park.