CBT delivered by non-specialists during pregnancy prevents postnatal depression in an RCT led by Atif Rahman and team in Pakistan. Kudos ⁦Nature Medicine⁩ for publishing high quality science from regions traditionally underrepresented in academia. nature.com/articles/s4159…

More evidence that protecting our children is critically important for public health.

Thanks for the interview nature on this important topic

Ketamine is in the spotlight thanks to Elon Musk — but is it the right treatment for depression? nature.com/articles/d4158…

#ClimateChange has devastating impacts on public health yet we no little on how to address mental health impacts of the #ClimateCrisis . UofTPsychiatry CAMH Research colleague Siqi Xue, MD led an important evidence synthesis on this subject published in Nature Portfolio (link below)

My cousin AHADADREAM's collab with Skrillex dropping March 22 🚀💫

It's a privilege to call CAMH my professional home. A monumental day as we broke ground on the Discovery Centre, a state-of-the-art, beautiful building that will undoubtedly become the world's leading mental health and addictions research facility. camh.ca/en/camh-news-a…

What a day for #mentalhealth research @camhnews !

'Hope is the most powerful thing in the world and that's what research gives us”

Ontario invests $1.6B in new buildings at CAMH thestar.com/politics/provi… via @torontostar

With recent studies reporting a rise in recreational psilocybin use, it was timely to be invited on Ontario Today to chat w/ Ontarians about implications of illegal mushroom dispensaries on clinical research evaluating potential therapeutic uses.
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Thank you UofTPsychiatry Temerty Medicine for featuring the recently launched Toronto Global Innovation Fund in this article. The fund supports initiatives to improve outcomes for those with mental illness across populations & settings. Pls consider donating:
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'Psychedelic Research as a Career Path: A Roundtable Discussion with Early Career Researchers in the Field'

Natasha L Mason / nlmason.bsky.social and I led a discussion on 'how to become a psychedelic researcher' with current graduate and medical students studying psychedelics
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Thanks to IMS Magazine for featuring our research CAMH Research and UofTPsychiatry in their current issue.

Nice evidence synthesis in ⁦The BMJ⁩ showing exercise as an effective Rx for depression. Walking, jogging, yoga, & strength training most effective, especially when intense. We should be prescribing exercise alongside psychotherapy & medication. bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Congratulations Joshua Rosenblat, MD, MSc, FRCPC and team on the publication of this trial. It takes a village to conduct psychedelic research, and the team have blazed a trail for other Canadian IITs.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science! CAMH and #womenmind are committed to investing in women and girls to become leaders in #STEM -related fields.

📢Shout out women mentors who've positively impacted your personal/professional development below! #WomenInScience

Delighted to have been part of a large team that just published this comprehensive review in World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org journal: Functional magnetic resonance imaging in #schizophrenia : current evidence, methodological advances, limitations and future directions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

Research recruitment tweets incoming! Please share - we are working on a cross-Canada study to better understand experiences of people who had suicidal thoughts or behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their expertise can help us improve mental health care.

New year, new CAMH! 🚧🏗️👷

2024 kicks off the fourth & final stage of our historic redevelopment that aims to bring together programs, services & #research at our Queen Street site.

⬇️Learn more:
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#MentalHealthisHealth

More pre-clinical work suggesting psilocybin's antidepressant effects may not rely on the 5HT2A receptor. Ppl are v different form mice, so we are studying the role of the 5HT2A receptor in psilocybin therapy's antidepressant effects in humans in an active trial CAMH

Fantastic paper from @itschekkers Martin Paulus et al. in Science explores the 'illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models' with powerful data from schizoprehnia medications studies to show the need for external validation: science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Great summary on the fascinating discourse on the the role of psychotherapy in psilocybin treatment. With the amount of disagreement on this, it is clear we need empirical evidence and expert opinion is insufficient alone. We should not assume anything here.