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…
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.…
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…
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
APEAL lab at CAPE
The annual scientific symposium of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology was held this year in beautiful Quebec City. This year’s conference focused on the use of administrative health data in psychiatric epidemiology research. With lab director Ian Colman on sabbatical in Oslo, APEAL lab sent…
Posted: September 24, 2019 at 9:04 am
Good neighbourhoods may mitigate effects of life stress
New research from APEAL lab suggests that neighbourhood social cohesion (i.e., sense of trust and shared responsibility within the neighbourhood) may protect adolescents from some of the known negative consequences of experiencing stressful events in childhood. The paper, authored by APEAL members Mila Kingsbury, Zahra…
Posted: September 24, 2019 at 9:03 am