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BASIC SCIENCE / TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

UNRAVELLING THE IMMUNOLOGICAL NEXUS: THE ROLE OF COMPLEMENT FACTOR I AND CUB AND SUSHI DOMAINS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATHOGENESIS
Ninon Freidel, Li Shao, &
Clare Beasley

THE MESOCORTICAL DOPAMINE SYSTEM DOES NOT ENCODE REWARD PREDICTION ERRORS
Isabella Gallello & Jeremy Seamans

COMPLEMENT OPSONIN C1Q PROTEIN AND MRNA EXPRESSION IN PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER
Sangeetha Kasturi, Li Shao, &
Clare L. Beasley

HELP-SEEKING BARRIERS AMONG CANADIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT PERCEIVED NEED TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
Tiana Mori, Kristen L. Hudec,
Angel Y. Wang, Ana Paula Prescivalli, &
Daniel V. Vigo

NEUROIMAGING SIGNATURES OF EARLY-ONSET BIPOLAR DISORDER: INSIGHTS FROM THE ABCD STUDY
Nicole Sanford, Ruiyang Ge, &
Sophia Frangou

REAL-TIME SYMPTOM CAPTURE OF HALLUCINATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH FMRI: ABSENCE OF DURATION-DEPENDENT ACTIVITY
John Shahki, Karanvir Gill,
Chantal Percival, Meighen Roes,
Leo Arreaza, Abhijit Chinchani,
Nicole Sanford, Walter Sena,
Homa Mohammadsadeghi,
Mahesh Menon, Matthew Hughes,
Sean Carruthers, Philip Sumner,
Will Woods, Renaud Jardri,
Iris E. Sommer, Susan L. Rossell, &
Todd S. Woodward

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT OF GYRAL GEOMETRY ON LOW-INTENSITY TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSED ULTRASOUND NEUROMODULATION FOR A STANDARDIZED TARGET IN THE LEFT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
Parsa Tadayon, Annika MacKenzie,
Elizabeth Gregory,
Hengameh Marzbani,
Samuel Pichardo, &
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

ROLE OF TERMINAL PHASE COMPLEMENT COMPONENTS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Alexandra Willis, Li Shao, &
Clare Beasley
CLINICAL RESEARCH

BWELL-D: NOVEL VIRTUAL REALITY COGNITIVE REMEDIATION PROGRAM FOR DEPRESSION – PRELIMINARY USABILITY, TOLERABILITY, AND ENGAGEMENT RESULTS
Pooria Ahmadi, Nusrat Choudhury,
Mark Hewko, Elicia Kohlenberg, &
Trisha Chakrabarty

YOUNGER MINDS: CO-DEVELOPMENT, ADAPTATION, AND PILOT STUDY OF A MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE APP FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS
Borna Atrchian, Tiana Mori,
Melissa Vereschagin, Angel Y. Wang,
Fiona Choi, Kristen L. Hudec,
Chris G. Richardson, & Daniel V. Vigo

TREATMENT MODELS TO SUPPORT SAFETY-RELATED CONCERNS WITHIN HIGHER LEVELS OF CARE FOR PEDIATRIC EATING DISORDERS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW
Tayla Bain, Hammond, D., &
Coelho, J. S.

MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS AND RATES OF RECIDIVISM AMONG PEOPLE ADMITTED TO BC JAILS
Yenah Byun, Sirui Wu, &
Tonia L. Nicholls

EVALUATION OF A MANUALIZED TELEHEALTH-BASED PSYCHOEDUCATION GROUP FOR INDIVIDUALS AT HIGH RISK FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER: A FEASIBILITY STUDY
Heeva Chavoshi Nejad, Alexander Levit,
Emma Morton, Clara Westwell-Roper,
Ashley Forbes, John-Jose Nuñez,
Erin Michalak, Lakshmi Yatham, &
Kamyar Keramatian

IS REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION DOSING AFFECTED BY PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS? ANALYSIS FROM THREE CLINICAL TRIALS
Anastasia Dikareva,
Alice Erchov, Jonathan Downar,
Daniel M. Blumberger, &
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

MODELLING OF TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION’S COMPLEXITY USING MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS: A SEX-LEVEL ANALYSIS
Alice Erchov, Downar, J.,
Blumberger, D., & Vila-Rodriguez, F.

EARLY PSYCHOSIS INTERVENTION SERVICES IN REMOTE AND RURAL COMMUNITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Ashley Forbes, Kaya Radjah, &
Kamyar Keramatian

BORDERS OF GRIEF: A PRIMARY ANALYSIS OF PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER AMONG MIGRANTS IN CANADA
Pantea Ghazanfari Moghadam &
Clare Killikelly

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTIONAL PSYCHIATRY CLINIC FOR TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION: ADMINISTRATIVE, CLINICAL, AND MEASUREMENT CONSIDERATIONS
Marianne Hrabok, Wei-Yi Song, &
Tasha McKelvey

CHALLENGES OF PRACTICING EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION
Zahraa Jalal, Gabrielle Chartier, &
David Kealy

DOES LOW-FREQUENCY REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION MODULATE HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN DEPRESSION?
Jaeyoon Kim, Bazyl Carroll,
William Sun, Elizabeth Gregory, &
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

LINKING CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: IDENTITY, SHAME, AND AGE EFFECTS
Laura Labonté & David Kealy

STEPS TOWARDS AN INITIAL SCOPING REVIEW OF GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH (MH) BIOBANKS AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN INVESTIGATOR-DRIVEN MH BIOBANK PROJECT AT BC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (BCCH)
Rachel Lai, Roberto Sassi, &
S. Evelyn Stewart

WOMEN WITH A HISTORY OF SEXUAL OFFENDING: AN EXAMINATION OF SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS
Austin Lam, Sirui Wu, Amanda Butler,
Michael C. Seto, Maureen Olley,
Leigh Greiner, & Tonia L. Nicholls

INSIGHT DEFICITS IN SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS THROUGH THE LENS OF DOUBLE BOOKKEEPING
Austin Lam, Tom Froese, &
Christian Schütz

SYSTEM REDESIGN TO ADDRESS SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: TOOLKIT FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
Austin Lam, Claire Bodkin,
Michael Menconi,
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay,
Jenna Webber, &
Ruth Elwood Martin

FACTORS INFLUENCING DELAYS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF BIPOLAR DISORDER IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS: A SYSTEMATIC SCOPING REVIEW
Frederick Lam, Alexander Levit,
John-Jose Nunez, Emma Morton, &
Kamyar Keramatian

INDUCTION ONTO BUPRENORPHINE UTILIZING TRANSDERMAL PATCHES OVER 24-48 HOURS: IPPAS METHOD
Victor W. Li, Jennifer Bramley,
Jessica Machado, Mohammadali Nikoo,
Tam To, James Wong,
Julio S.G. Montaner,
Reinhard M. Krausz, & Pouya Azar

DEVELOPING AN FMRI TEST BATTERY FOR PREOPERATIVE PLANNING OF BRAIN SURGERIES
Tyrone Ly, Mariana Mascarenhas,
John Shahki, Solana Redway-Ziola, &
Todd Woodward

ACCELERATED BRAIN AGING IN MULTIMORBID INDIVIDUALS
Annika MacKenzie, William G Honer,
Donne Lang , Wayne Su,
Andrea Jones, & Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

OPTIMIZING OPIOID AGONIST TREATMENT FOR YOUTH: FINDINGS FROM A MULTI-PHASE AND MULTI-METHODS STUDY
Kirsten Marchand, Roxanne Turuba,
Steve Mathias, & Skye Barbic

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY TO CLINICAL APPLICATION: THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY
Andrew McDonald & William Honer

A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF DISTRESSED POSTPARTUM MOTHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON AN ONLINE MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION
Maya McGregor, Katarina Tabi,
Catriona Hippman, Manreet Bhullar,
Barbara Shulman, Sophia Wang,
Lenssa Fantu, Royce Dueck,
Deirdre Ryan, &
S. Evelyn Stewart

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM MODULATION DURING TMS IN PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
Anabelle McPherson, Carroll, B.,
Gregory, E., Görges, Zhan, J. M., &
Vila-Rodriguez, F.

PROFILING THE FMRI-DERIVED LANGUAGE-BASED NETWORK FOR PRE- AND POST-SURGICAL MONITORING
Mariana Mendonca Mascarenhas,
Erica Zeng, John Shahki, &
Todd S. Woodward

SCREENING FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI)
Ana Mikolic, Deborah Snell,
Alice Theadom,
Josh Faulkner, Roger Zemek, &
Noah Silverberg

THE CARS STUDY: EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS ON YOUTH ECT PATIENTS
Benjamin Nazif, Foroogh Najafi,
Jeff Zhan,
Matthias Görges, Cathy Feng,
Ming Yang, &
Fidel Vila Rodriguez

BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS, STRUCTURAL BRAIN DIFFERENCES, AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH LONG-COVID AND THOSE WITH NORMAL RECOVERY
Breanna Nelson, Lea Farah,
Nishtha Parag,
Portia Kuivi, Alysha Alimohamed,
Harneet Bariana, Bella Way, Catie Song,
Ava Grier, Chiara DeMarni, Lily Xu,
Tala Bagh, Sidney Saint, Jacob Stubbs,
Megan Harper, Johnson Chen,
Jessica McKenzie, Vesna Sossi,
Mypinder Sekhon, Donna Lang,
Jonathan Stoessl, Cheryl Wellington,
Noah Silverberg, & William Panenka

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING AND OTHER QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING AFTER COVID-19 INFECTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Breanna Nelson, Lea Farah,
Sidney Ann Saint, Catie Song,
Vesna Sossi, A. Jonathan Stoessl,
Cheryl Wellington, Donna Lang, &
William Panenka

QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS TREATED WITH OPIUM TINCTURE OR METHADONE: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Mohammadali Nikoo, Jane J. Kim,
Nooshin Nikoo, Sanam Javidanbardan,
Alireza Kazemi, Fiona Choi, Ali Gholami,
Neda Y. Lafooraki, Marc Vogel,
Pouya Rezazadeh-Azar,
Maximilian Meyer,
Maurice Cabanis, Kerry Jang,
Shahin Aknondzadeh, & Michael Krausz

PREDICTING FUNCTION AFTER ESCITALOPRAM TREATMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING
John-Jose Nunez, Yang Liu,
Tejas Phaterpekar, Bo Cao,
Sakina J. Rizvi,
Sidney Kennedy, Roumen Milev, &
Raymond Lam

CAN METABOLITE LEVELS QUANTIFIED WITH 1H-MRS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS PREDICT RECURRENCE OF MOOD EPISODES IN FIRST EPISODE MANIA PATIENTS? A 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY
Chithra Pream Raju, Erin L. MacMillan,
Ruiyang Ge, Hong Qian, &
Lakshmi N. Yatham

EXPLORING FAMILY FACTORS IN PEDIATRIC OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CONTROLS
Ariel (Ruo Chen) Qi, John R. Best, Gordon Andjelic,
Anna MacLellan, Boyee Lin,
Cynthia Lu, &
S. Evelyn Stewart

INCIDENTAL CASE DETECTION OF FOLIE À DEUX MEDIATED VIA COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Roopal Rai,
Naveenjyote Singh Boora, &
Varinder Parmar

BRAIN STIMULATION CAN INCREASE LEVELS OF DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS: OUTCOMES FROM AN RTMS TRIAL FOR PTSD
Kaveh Rayani, Andrea Grabovac,
Stefanie Montgomery,
Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo,
Matthew D. Sacchet, & Peter Chan

IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDEE: THE IMPACT OF ADJUNCTIVE ANTIDEPRESSANTS VS PLACEBO ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE AFTERMATH OF BIPOLAR DEPRESSION
Shannon Reid, Leanne Hui,
Chithra Pream Raju, Nazlin Walji, &
Lakshmi Yatham

USE OF NON-PRESCRIBED OPIOIDS AND NALOXONE RISK FOLLOWING TBI IN VANCOUVER’S DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
Sidney Ann Saint, Livingston, E.,
Nelson, B., Farah, L., Stubbs, J.,
Grier, A., Su, W., Lang, D.,
Barr, A., Leonova, O., Vertinsky, A.T.,
Gicas, K., Jones, A.A., Thornton, A.,
Honer, W.G., & Panenka, W.

SMOKING FENTANYL DURING THE OPIOID CRISIS IN VANCOUVER
Michael Song, Jane Kim,
Gemy Kuriakose,
Christian Schutz, Raha Masoudi,
Pouya Azar,
Martha Ignaszewski, &
Reinhard Michael Krausz

CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATIONS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Shawn Stochmanski, Elizabeth Gregory,
Belen Arranz, Josep Maria Haro,
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, &
Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen

COMPARING IMAGE QUALITY METRICS OF T1W MRI DATA WITHIN & BETWEEN DATASETS
Adam Sunavsky, Annika MacKenzie,
Elizabeth Gregory,
Hengameh Marzbani, &
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

APPROACH-BIAS RETRAINING EFFECTS ON STIMULANT- AND DRUG-RELATED MEMORY ASSOCIATIONS AMONG INPATIENTS WITH A PRIMARY STIMULANT USE DISORDER
Stefanie Todesco, Liam Gorsuch,
Thomas Chao, Karina Thiessen, &
Christian G. Schutz

CONTRACEPTIVES: SUSPICION FOR ATTENUATED TMS TREATMENT RESPONSE IN FEMALE PATIENTS WITH TRD
Anca Elena Toma, Jeff Zhan, Aien Feng,
Elizabeth Gregory, Caleb Pozdnikoff,
William Sun, Daniel Blumberger, Jonathan Downar, &
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

ADAPTING THE SAFE CONSUMPTION SITE MODEL FOR PATIENT-PROCURED MDMA
Vivian Tsang, Crosbie Watler,
Kerrie Miller, Robert W.E. Laurie,
Raimey Olthuis,
Pearl Allard, Elena Argento,
Pam Kryskow, & Shannon Dames

PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS, SELF HARM, SUICIDE, TRAUMA, AND ABUSE IN INDIVIDUALS WHO INTENTIONALLY USE FENTANYL
Vivian Tsang, M. Short., R. M. Krausz, &
M. Ignaszewski

TOP THREE SYMPTOM DIMENSIONS ARE SHARED FOR MALE AND FEMALE YOUTH: A DATA-DRIVEN FACTOR ANALYSIS STUDY IN A LARGE TRANSDIAGNOSTIC DATABASE
Ashan Veerakumar, Samara, A., &
Vanderwal, T

FINDINGS FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THE MINDER APP: A MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE INTERVENTION FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Melissa Vereschagin, Angel Y. Wang,
Chris Richardson, Richard J. Munthali,
Kristen L. Hudec, & Daniel Vigo

NEEDS-BASED PLANNING FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES: APPLICATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Angel Y. Wang, Jonathan Ramirez-Lara,
Birpreet Saini, Lonna Munro,
Haroon Ahmad, Brian Rush, &
Daniel V. Vigo

WHEN IS CERTIFICATION APPROPRIATE? A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT TO REDUCE INAPPROPRIATE MHA CERTIFICATIONS BY 10% AT THE ROYAL COLUMBIA HOSPITAL
Tristan Willis, Angela Walsh,
Teresa Tai, Dayle Ostapiuk,
Mehar Kang, Jessica Chin,
Meghan Ho, & Anyssa Shakeri

PATTERNS OF FENTANYL USE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL COHORT STUDY
Andrea Wong Koo,
Kimia Nouhi Kashani,
Vivian Tsang, & Michael Krausz

BRAIN-AGE PREDICTION: SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF SITE EFFECTS, AND SAMPLE AGE RANGE AND SIZE
Yuetong (Jordan) Yu, Hao-Qi Cui,
Shalaila Haas, Faye New,
Nicole Sanford, Kevin Yu,
Denghuang Zhan, Guoyuan Yang,
Jia-hong Gao, Dongtao Wei, Jiang Qiu,
Boris Bernhardt, Paul Thompson,
Sophia Frangou, Ruiyang Ge, &
ENIGMA World Aging Center

THE EFFECT AND UTILITY OF EXERCISE IN THE MENTAL HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS WITH ADVANCED CANCER: A SYSTEMATIC SCOPING REVIEW
Sarah Zhang, Daniel Hilbers,
Alan T. Bates,
Raymond W. Lam, &
John-Jose Nunez

SEX DIFFERENCES IN AGE OF ILLNESS ONSET OF TREATMENT-RESISTANT PSYCHOSIS
Daniah Zumrawi, Ivan Caramanna,
Olga Leonova, Mahesh Menon,
Randall White, William Honer, &
Ivan Torres