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Research

Director: Dr. Ben Rusak

2017 Department of 2017 Department of
Psychiatry Research Fund Psychiatry Summer
Grants Studentship Program
April 2017 • Gail Eskes/Richard Drake - Testing
a training program for improving
• Martin Alda – Clinical variables deficits in attention (vigilance).
predicting response to long term
lithium treatment of bipolar disorder: • George Robertson/Daniel Kim -
a four-centre study. ($19,920) Assessment of mitochondrial function
in neurons derived from patients with
• Candice Crocker/Phil Tibbo – bipolar disorder.
Cannabis effects on white matter in
females with early phase psychosis. • Rudolf Uher/Michael O’Leary -
($16,015) Genetic moderation of the effects of
bullying on risk of mental illness.
• George Robertson – Reversal
of mitochondrial and autophagy • Cindy Calkin/Claire Reardon
deficits in neurons derived from the - Treating insulin resistance as
pluripotent stem cells of patients with a strategy to improve outcome
bipolar disorder. ($20,000) in refractory bipolar disorder: a
randomized, double-blind, placebo-
• Ian Weaver/George Roberston control study of the efficacy of
– Effects of paternal high fat diet metformin in patients with insulin
and predation risk, as well as resistance and non-remitting bipolar
maternal rearing environment on the disorder.
hypothalamus transcriptome and
anxiety-mediated behaviours in the NSPRU Summer Studentship
offspring. ($20,000) • Phil Tibbo & Jacob Cookey/Jacob

• Alyson Zwicker/Rudolf Uher – McGavin - A retrospective database
Genetic counselling in the prevention study of the impact of alcohol use
of mental health consequences of on clinical outcomes in early phase
cannabis use. ($19,590) psychosis.
October 2017

• Amy Bombay - Exploring the
cumulative effects of familial IRS
attendance in relation to age of onset
for suicidal ideation and suicide
attempts among Indigenous youth
living on-reserve and off-reserve.
($14,150)

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