Prioritizing mental health care with the Mood Disorders Centre
Research team members discuss their experiences working in mental health research and share expert…
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Research
New guidelines for depression care emphasize patient-centered approach
Psychiatrists and mental health professionals have a new standard for managing major depression, thanks to refreshed clinical guidelines published today by UBC researchers at the Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT). The CANMAT guidelines are the most widely used clinical guidelines for depression in the world. The new version integrates the latest scientific evidence and advances in depression care since the previous…
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Research
April 30, 2024
Papers of the month: April 2024
Check out some of the papers that were recently published by DMCBH members: Ruth…
Trainees
April 29, 2024
Where Are They Now – Past Neuroscience Graduates
Alumni of the UBC Graduate Program in Neuroscience (GPN) embark on diverse career paths,…
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In the Media
| Name | Media Outlet | Date | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Lam | CBC Radio | 04/12/2023 | In the bleak midwinter: Lightening your mood when dark days bring on seasonal depression |
| Benjamin Matthews | CBC News Podcast | 27/11/2023 | We can genetically modify pests. But should we? |
| Naznin Virji-Babul | ABC Australia | 23/10/2023 | Most concussions don’t happen on the sports field. Brain injury is a risk for everyone, and its effects can last months or years |
| Helen Tremlett | Health Day News | 27/09/2023 | Emotional issues could be early sign of MS |
Events
Dr. Brian Corneil: Responding when time is of the essence: a subcortical substrate for rapid visually-guided reaching.
May 24
2215 Wesbrook MallVancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Humans operate in a dynamic and uncertain world; sudden changes in an object’s position require rapid changes in motor control. Previous research in humans has shown that on-going visually-guided actions can be altered at latencies that approach minimal afferent and…
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Monthly Monday Rounds in Mental Health and Addictions
May 27 @ 3:30 pm
The dark arts of naturalistic neuroscience: Using movie-fMRI to study functional brain organization in child psychiatric disorders
BC Children’s Hospital (BCCHR) Room 2108 (across from Chan Auditorium), Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
May 31 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman: Decoding the Intricacies of GPCR Signaling in neurodegenerative diseases
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
June 5 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Mike Hildebrand: Bridging the translational divide: Development of human spinal cord assays for investigating molecular mechanisms and treatments for pain
DMCBH Room 3402, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3