I'll start with the third part of your question. It is happening right now. I believe the context for your question and the last few that have been put to other witnesses really comes down to return on investment. What is the best use of dollars in order to get the greatest impact? In support of what others have said, I believe the investment should be selective. That doesn't mean only one centre in the country, but it means the investment is made strategically, that it's made in centres where there is expertise and where there's an opportunity to grow, and then the end result will be maximized by having networking and coordination.
With respect to what it means to actually have disorders of the brain and mind treated together, our brain sciences program at Sunnybrook is unique. We bring psychiatrists together with neurologists and neurosurgeons and those who specialize in imaging as well as the non-medical professionals, and we look at the total patient.
It is unique in that in most organizations there is still a separation between disorders of the mind, which is the domain of psychiatry, and disorders of the brain, which usually fall to neurologists and neurosurgeons. We believe there are many benefits to this, including the destigmatization of mental health. I mentioned earlier the fact that there's an intersection between many of these disorders. There's a relationship between depression and stroke and dementia, and only by taking all of these together will we get the best result, so we're doing it right now.
I'm now going to go to the innovation piece, Mr. Adler. We have actually built a significant program around focused ultrasound for treating disorders of the brain. This is a way of actually doing surgery without a scalpel, of treating disorders inside the brain without actually cutting through the skull.
We focused initially on disorders related to the brain diseases, and we focused on tremor and tumour, but we are now expanding this to disorders of the mind. We're going to be looking at opportunities to treat obsessive-compulsive disorders. We believe that through another application of ultrasound, we can break down the blood-brain barrier and get medications across and into the brain to treat depression and other disorders.
From our perspective, actually focusing on the total patient and bringing disorders of the brain and mind together will truly have impact, and as I hope I have emphasized, it's happening today.