Advancing Brain Research in Mental Health and Suicide Risk
Clinical Neurosciences Laboratory |
University of Toronto
Advancing Brain Research in Mental Health and Suicide Risk
Clinical Neurosciences Laboratory |
University of Toronto
What Do We Do?
We conduct research at the intersections of clinical psychology, neuropsychology and cognitive-affective neuroscience.
Our research advances foundational knowledge about cognition—especially executive functions and emotion perception—and the brain. We apply this knowledge to drive discoveries about mental health—primarily impulsive-spectrum diagnoses such as personality disorders and substance use disorders—and suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
We seek to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the factors that give rise to mental health conditions and related disturbances in cognition and the brain, with a primary focus on the effects of cumulative lifetime stress.
In our collaborative studies with other research teams, we investigate the impacts of research supported treatments—including psychotherapies and non-invasive brain stimulations—on mental health conditions and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours, and their corresponding effects on cognition and the brain.
Who Do We Train?
Our laboratory trains exceptional undergraduate students in Psychology and Neuroscience, graduate students in Clinical Psychology, and post-doctoral research fellows at the University of Toronto.
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