PGY2 Psych @ualberta MD @uoftmedicine | Neuro BScH 🇨🇦 | Geek for digital health, psychedelic therapy & mental health advocacy 🧬 @MIRAChatbot @MoodDisordersCa
Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2014
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✔ Sleigh inspected
✔ Reindeer equipment secured
✔ Flight plan approved
Santa’s list wasn’t the only one checked twice. The Minister of Transport has cleared Santa for travel just in time for #Christmas.🎅
Happy Holidays!🎄
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During my medical training, I never thought I would prescribe housing. But if there was a drug to restore 30-40 life years for patients, we would all see it as a medical breakthrough.
That life-saving treatment is housing for all.
Hospitals are needing to move upstream and address homelessness because band aid treatments keep failing people and health workers.
Grateful for UHN leadership seeing the importance of broadening our lane and the power of partnership with community.
theglobeandmail.com/real-est…
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A pleasure to meet and support this important work.
We need more dedicated funding to help improve community access, lower wait times for treatment, and improve mental health outcomes, especially for vulnerable youth. #cdnpoli
Thank you Senator @KristopherWells for joining us to discuss the critical role of community mental health organizations in addressing Canada's mental health needs. Together, we can make meaningful changes. Let's #MakeChangeHappen.
Thank you to the Honourable @YaaraSaks !
Thank you to Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Ya’ara Saks, for a discussion on the value and importance of community mental health. Together, we’re committed to strengthening mental health support across Canada. @YaaraSaks
#MakeChangeHappen #MentalHealthMatters
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My latest from the Globe… Mystery CAMH mega-donor reveals identity with latest $100-million gift to hospital theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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It is simple-minded to look at people with psychiatric illness, homelessness and drug use and think them lesser people. If you knew the abuse and trauma many of them suffered you would think different. Not everyone's father gave them a job and inheritance.
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Our 2 cents on the current status and future prospects of TMS for addiction with my mentor and colleague Dr Blumberger 💡tandfonline.com/eprint/BR4FM…
Congrats @Psycholod 🎉🤗 Grateful for your support as PI for @MIRAChatbot & your contribution to global e-mental health
Congratulations to @MIRAChatbot Principal Investigator, Dr. Andy Greenshaw, for receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the @eMHIC_Global Congress! We are incredibly privileged to have you as part of our team. @Psycholod
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The MIRA Team is pleased to participate in the
@eMHIC_Global Think Tank in Ottawa! The 2024 theme is ‘Digital Building Capacity: 24/7 Mental Health Support for All'. 📷 Pictured: MDSC National Program Director Ken Porter, with Dr. Vincent I.O. Agyapong, PI. #EMHIC2024
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Great new study with more evidence to support superiority of rTMS to standard treatment for TRD @APApsychiatric
rTMS as a Next Step in Antidepressant Nonresponders: A Randomized Comparison With Current Antidepressant Treatment Approaches
doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.202…
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Could Ozempic curb addictions beyond food?
A study analyzing Reddit threads reported:
📉 Decreased alcohol, caffeine, nicotine intake
📉 Decreased compulsive shopping
📈 Improved Libido
Would be interesting to see more data on this topic.
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After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a reset of circuits critical to the sense of self.
Our study is out today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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It all comes down to this.
#LetsGoOilers
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Shoutout to amazing @uoftmedicine student @RachelGoud who worked on this!
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New CAMH research in @TheCJPsych reveals that between 2003-2023, only 71 out of 10,463 Consent and Capacity Board decisions in Ontario involved #substanceuse treatment terms like "methadone," with just one case upholding incapacity for methadone treatment: doi.org/10.1177/070674372412…
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We're sending a HUGE shoutout and heartfelt thank you to our amazing sponsors, dedicated volunteers, and tireless organizers! To everyone who donated, participated, or shared their support - you are deeply appreciated! Check out the recap video below to relive the highlights! 🩵
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The neuroplasticity framework of depression has the potential to replace the serotonin deficit hypothesis.
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12,000 years ago, all of Toronto was covered in a mile-high glacier. Over time, the earth warmed and the glacier began to melt. For centuries, fast-rushing glacial water carved out enormous valleys, leaving Toronto with the largest ravine system of any city in the world.
Depression packs a hard punch - anhedonia can strip one of their passions & self-identity. My colleagues Dhvani, Anthony & I in Addictions research @camh see how both are often coupled. It’s still #MentalHealthAwareness Month & together we can #DefeatDepression @MoodDisordersCa
