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L’interdisciplinarité au service des dépendances comportementales

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Le jeu problématique est souvent lié à d’autres troubles: 96 % des cas avec au moins un autre trouble mental.

The episode starts with a broad question about why interdisciplinarity matters in public-health research. Karine Morin frames the discussion around complex problems that need more than one expertise, one perspective, or one method. Magali Brodeur treats collaboration as a working research method, not a slogan. She explains that different disciplines bring different methods, perspectives, and ways of reading the same problem. The conversation keeps moving from abstraction toward use. Brodeur describes the concrete gains that come when researchers work together across fields. The discussion then turns to patient partners. They sit on advisory committees, help decide project directions, and keep teams accountable to ground-level needs. Their perspective can come from living with a disease or supporting someone who does. That role is central, not decorative. The episode also acknowledges that collaboration is hard for everyone involved. Researchers have to adapt the pace of research and learn to explain their work clearly. Patient partners face challenges in taking part too. Brodeur notes that in work on gambling disorder and related dependency issues, people may go through relapses or become harder to reach. The conversation does not smooth over those frictions. Instead, it treats them as part of the real terrain of cooperative research. Brodeur says her team even ran a two-phase project specifically to understand patient-partner collaboration from both sides. One phase focused on the experience of patient partners. The other focused on the perspective of researchers. The goal was to turn those findings into recommendations that could improve future collaborations. By the end, the episode makes a clear case that interdisciplinary public-health research works best when it is precise, patient, and open to the people it aims to serve.

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A measured case for interdisciplinary research that stays close to practice.

Voir grand treats public health as something that improves when people stop working in silos, and this discussion keeps that idea grounded. Karine Morin introduces Magali Brodeur, a clinician and researcher who is also an assistant professor at the Universite de Sherbrooke, and…

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