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Signature Bank

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Signature Bank
The objectives of the Signature Bank of medical, psychosocial, and human biological material are:
• To advance mental health research,
• To assess the physical and mental health of volunteers admitted to the Montreal Mental Health University Institute.
• To enable clinicians to tailor treatment based on meaningful psychosocial and medical indicators.
It aims to collect, on the one hand, medical and psychosocial data and, on the other hand, human biological material from users consenting to participate in the project and from the brief intervention programs (emergency), the psychotic disorders program, and the mood disorders program of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute.

The Signature model is inspired by the four “P”s of personalized medicine:
• Predict and prevent: measuring mental health biomarkers in blood, saliva, and hair and combining them with phenotypes (behavior, cognition, social factors, diagnoses, and medications)
• Participate and personalize: promoting patients’ involvement in their own care and treatment by facilitating the transfer of knowledge between clinicians and users while encouraging collaboration with users based on research results obtained from the Signature Bank and using innovations in biomonitoring and mobile information technology.

Over the course of the project, four signatures are collected from participants at critical moments in their clinical pathway, in order to understand their crisis, their response to treatment, and the success of their rehabilitation. The Signature protocol includes two different groups.
- In the “emergency” group, there are no exclusion criteria, so any patient admitted to the ER may participate
- In the “longitudinal follow-up” group, in order to continue, participants must have been admitted to one of two programs targeted by the project: the anxiety and mood disorder (AMD) program or the first psychotic episode (FPE) program.
Human Specimen Repository - Adult
Yes
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Contact Information
INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE MONTRÉAL
7401, RUE HOCHELAGA PAVILLON RIEL, UNITÉ 228 MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H1N 3M5
(+1) 514-251-4000 ext.3027