Updates

  • ENIGMA-BD Teleconference

    ENIGMA-BD Teleconference

    Our graduate students, Lorielle Dietze and Julia Fraiha-Pegado, presented our ongoing projects at the ENIGMA-BD working group this afternoon, April 12th, 2024. A congratulations to them for such fantastic presentations! Read more

  • Presenting SIRS 2024 Symposium

    Presenting SIRS 2024 Symposium

    Our Principal Investigator, Dr. Tomas Hajek, was just at the Schizophrenia International Research Society 2024 Conference in Florence, Italy. During his time there he presented in the symposium, Cardiometabolic Co-Morbidity in Schizophrenia SpectrumDisorders – Unraveling the Mind-Body Interaction, specifically on his article, Trajectories of Daily Antipsychotic Use and Weight Gain/Metabolic Changes in People Hospitalized for Read more

  • Maya in Toronto

    Maya in Toronto

    Our graduate student, Maya, attended the CYBD Youth Bipolar Day Research Symposium hosted at CAMH in Toronto on March 28th. She presented her current project, a meta-analysis on metabolic risk factors and BrainAGE. Read more

  • Acceptance to the PhD Program.

    Acceptance to the PhD Program.

    Congratulations to our current student, Julia Fraiha Pegado, who was just recently accepted into the Medical Neuroscience PhD program at Dalhousie. We are all very excited to see what opportunities and accomplishments come your way! Read more

  • Winning First Prize!

    Winning First Prize!

    Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Kristyna Vochoskova, winning for first prize from the Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society for original research in clinical psychopharmacology! Keep up the great work, we are all very proud! Read more

  • Featured Research in the news: Bipolar Network News Mention

    Check out these articles published by the Bipolar Network News about our current lab members Lorielle Dietze (PhD student), Sean McWhinney (post-doc), and Tomas Hajek (PI). These articles highlighted our lab’s recent work on the effects of obesity and bipolar disorder on brain changes in gray and white matter, as well as the occurrence of Read more