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- 3Le Melledo, Jean-Michel (Psychiatry)
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Spring 2017
Cannabis use is a known risk factor for the development of psychotic disorders. Clinical and preclinical genetic studies provide growing evidence that genes related to dopamine signalling and neuroprotection, like COMT, are implicated in the cannabis-psychosis association. Considering the burden...
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Fall 2020
In the perimenopausal period, an event marked by end of menstrual cycle regularity, women are at a greater risk of either experiencing a reoccurrence of a major depressive episode (MDE), or presenting with their first MDE. This risk is greater in women with a history of mood vulnerability related...
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Non-verbal cognitive domain functions positively associate with mildly elevated fasting blood glucose in individuals presenting with a psychotic illness
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Background: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of biological parameters that have been identified as significant risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease. The relevance of MetS to the psychiatric population has been demonstrated in that having severe mental illness (SMI)...
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Pharmacogenomics for Psychiatry: Focusing on Drug Metabolizing Enzymes and Transporters, with Validated Methodology for CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 Including for a Novel Sub-Haplotype
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Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is interested in the impact individual genetic makeup has on a patient’s response to pharmacological agents. In clinical practice, PGx has the potential of reducing adverse drug reactions (ADRs), which cost Canada $65 million dollars in the year 2018, as well as enhancing...
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Plasma Levels of Neuroactive Steroids in Panic Disorder Patients and Healthy Volunteers Following Pentagastrin versus Placebo Injections
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Panic disorder is an anxiety illness that can be quite debilitating and costly to society. To date there is no real cure for panic disorder and current methods of treatment are suboptimal. Given the level of morbidity and societal cost of panic disorder, further research and development of...
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Self-Report Measures and Mobile Applications for Mental Health – Focusing on Suicidality and Bipolar Disorder – Including App Development and Measure Validation
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This thesis describes studies evaluating the predictive validity of suicide risk assessments, assessment and monitoring of bipolar disorder using mobile app-based self-report questionnaires, the feasibility and criterion validity of novel tools for the evaluation of suicidal ideation and...
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Variation in in vivo prefrontal GABA, glutamate and glutamine – effects of reproductive factors, cortisol and major depressive disorder
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Variations in glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), excitatory and inhibitory amino acid neurotransmitters in the brain, have been linked with cyclical changes across the menstrual cycle and in stress and stress-related mental disorders. We used 3.0 Tesla proton magnetic resonance...