A5109362810- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Extracellular vesicles in disease
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Rockefeller University
2017-2024
University of Ottawa
2011-2024
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
2011-2024
Imperial College London
2024
Bond University
2021
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2018
McLean Hospital
2018
Harvard University
2018
UCLA Health
2018
National Institute of Mental Health
2018
ABSTRACT Background: Inappropriate sexual behavior (ISB) is an important topic in geriatrics; etiologies remain unclear and evidence for the efficacy of treatment strategies limited. The aims this study were to provide a description phenomenology ISB geriatric population, identify potential contributing factors, review interventions aimed at reducing ISB. Methods: A retrospective chart was conducted ten patients admitted academic inpatient psychiatry ward because their (study group) matched...
There is a projected shortage of psychiatrists in Canada forthcoming years. This study assessed factors medical school education that are associated with students selecting psychiatry first and matching as discipline.The Canadian Organization Undergraduate Psychiatry Educators (COUPE) conducted telephone interviews sent e-mail questionnaires to the 17 schools across Canada; all provided data for 2012. Relevant were obtained from Resident Matching Service. Statistics performed using v12 STATA...
There is emerging evidence that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can help with the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. One most distressing dementia disruptive vocalization. Previous small case series have suggested antidepressants ECT be beneficial for this condition. The aim study was to describe successful use in treating 5 patients vocalization.A retrospective chart review mixed etiologies conducted comparing pretreatment posttreatment scores on Cohen-Mansfield Agitation...
Studies suggest that antipsychotic-induced weight gain is not a great concern in the elderly population. This study investigated change patients with various treatment duration and antipsychotics. Part 1 of was to determine whether atypical antipsychotics induced patients. 2 certain more patients.In 1, retrospective chart review done on 115 geriatric inpatients. After exclusion, were divided into four groups: control (n = 17), new 18), long-term 13), medication switch groups 8). In 2,...
An excess of exosomes, nanovesicles released from all cells and key regulators brain plasticity, is an emerging therapeutic target for stress-related mental illnesses. The effects chronic stress on exosome levels are unknown; even less known about molecular drivers in the response.
Objectives Intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians stop antibiotics more often, with a negative infection: point-of-care test (PCR-POCT). Simulated cases of diagnostic uncertainty regarding infection resolution led to choose options such as procalcitonin (PCT) and/or PCR-POCTs +/− de-escalation aid decisions. We hypothesised that direct indicator, PCR-POCT, would influence judgements than indirect PCT. Accordingly, we tested antibiotic-stop decisions when presented PCR-POCT despite...