APEAL Lab cleans up
Trainees from the APEAL lab showed up in full force to the School of Epidemiology and Public Health Student Research Day. The day included research talks by MSc students Nathan Cantor and Hannah Landry, and…
New APEAL research on parenting and mental health
A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, authored by a team including APEAL members Mila Kingsbury and Ian Colman, investigates the impact of harsh and positive parenting practices in childhood on…
Incidence of major depression in the Canadian Armed Forces
PhD Candidate François Thériault has published new findings from his dissertation research on the incidence of major depression in the Canadian Armed forces. This is the largest study of depression diagnoses in the Canadian military…
About APEAL
The Applied Psychiatric Epidemiology Across the Lifecourse (APEAL) program of research examines a variety of long-term processes surrounding common mental disorders and their treatment, including suicidal behaviour. Our research has a particular focus on early developmental and environmental stressors, and the long-term outcomes of common mental disorders.
Our lab is currently running projects funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Norlien Foundation, the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, and the SickKids Foundation.
More Stories from the Lab
New APEAL research published
APEAL Lab alum Dylan Johnson has published a first-author paper in Psychological Medicine. The study assessed profiles of internalizing and externalizing problems from middle to late childhood, and their associations with suicidal ideation in adolescence. Those with recurrent or increasing symptoms were at increased risk…
Posted: November 8, 2019 at 10:31 am
APEAL research links early life stress, mental health, and migraine
APEAL trainee Nicole Hammond has published a first-author paper in Headache. The paper showed that early life stressors including family dysfunction, punitive parenting, and parental depressive symptoms are associated with migraine headache in adolescence, and these associations are mediated by symptoms of depression and anxiety…
Posted: September 24, 2019 at 9:11 am