A5020484079- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mind wandering and attention
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Gut microbiota and health
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
Harvard University
2022-2024
McLean Hospital
2022-2024
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
2021-2023
The Scarborough Hospital
2019-2023
University of Toronto
2019-2023
New York University
2022
McMaster University
2015-2019
Introduction This secondary analysis of quality control data assessed principal components personality dysfunction and their relationship to mentalizing in a sample treatment-seeking women with severe disorders. Methods The Schedule for Nonadaptive Adaptive Personality (SNAP) the Movie Assessment Social Cognition (MASC) were administered 37 females routine assessments specialized residential treatment program. Principal component (PCA) SNAP scores was used determine dimensions most...
INITIAL CASE PRESENTATION Brittany, a 21-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder (BPD), was referred to our specialist service, presentation distinguished by high-lethality suicidal behaviors including ingestion of toxic substances and dangerous objects. She frequently ran train stations bridges. Brittany also engaged in daily cutting. Due her high level risk, she increasingly restricted within family home. not allowed into the backyard for fear that would elope engage lethality...
Research suggests that interpersonal dysfunction may be central to borderline personality disorder (BPD), and the relationships of people with BPD are particularly impaired. Further, significant others exhibit elevated psychological problems but little access mental healthcare. Despite this, most interventions delivered individually do not routinely incorporate others. This manuscript presents first case series Sage, a 12-session manualized intervention for (BPD) their intimate partners...
Abstract Background Recently proposed alternative dimensional models of personality disorder (PD) place the severity impairments in self and interpersonal functioning at core pathology. However, associations these with disturbances social, cognitive, affective brain networks remain uninvestigated. Methods The present study examined patterns resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) a sample 74 age- sex-matched participants (45 inpatients PD 29 healthy controls). At minimum, patients...
A prominent symptom of Autism Spectrum Disorder includes restricted and repetitive behaviours. This has been divided into three subtypes: motor behaviour, insistence on sameness circumscribed interests. In the past, neural correlates these behaviours have largely understudied. More recently, neuroimaging studies pointed to a number networks that may underlay However, results from this work varied remain difficult integrate. The purpose review is summarize recent in autism, provide an...
Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) tasks have been frequently used to assess attentional control in psychiatric samples; however, it is unclear whether RSVP exhibits the psychometric properties necessary these individual differences. In current study, we examined reliability and validity of single-target computerized task outcomes a sample 63 participants with moderate severe illness. At group level, observed classical blink phenomenon. conventional indices magnitude exhibited poor...
Abstract Background Recent findings suggest that brief dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder is effective reducing self-harm, but it remains unknown which patients are likely to improve in v. 12 months of DBT. Research needed identify patient characteristics moderate outcomes. Here, we characterized changes cognition across DBT (DBT-6) a standard 12-month course (DBT-12) and examined whether predicted self-harm outcomes each arm. Methods In this secondary...
Objective: Although impairments in attentional control are pervasive across psychopathology, there is substantial individual variability both self-reported and task-based indicators. In the current study, we examined whether differences performance-based measures of predict changes depressive symptoms well-being a diagnostically diverse sample patients enrolled CBT-based partial hospital program. Method: Participants were 89 (56.2% men, 75.3% non-Hispanic White) recruited from treatment...