Prenatal stress and adolescent externalizing problems – new evidence from APEAL study
A recent APEAL study published in Biological Psychiatry is making waves in the media. The paper found that mothers’ exposure to stressful life events in pregnancy predicted higher levels of externalizing problems – including conduct…
Another successful APEAL Lab student defence!
Many congratulations to Natalia Abraham for successfully defending her MSc thesis entitled “Childhood adversity, deployment-related stress, and mental health in the Canadian Armed Forces”. Natalia completed her MSc as part of the Public Health and…
First APEAL Lab PhD student successfully defends his thesis
Hearty congratulations go out to Michael Martin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 10, 2017. Micheal’s thesis was entitled “Detection and Treatment of Mental Illness among Prison Inmates: A Validation of Mental Health…
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
Another APEAL student publication
Congratulations to APEAL student Dylan Johnson, whose first-author paper “The association between multiple chemical sensitivity and mental illness: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of Canadians” was recently published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. The study found that Canadians who reported a diagnosis of multiple…
Posted: July 7, 2017 at 2:28 pm
APEAL Lab student thesis research in print
Many congratulations to APEAL Lab alumnus Yasmin Garad on the publication of her paper entitled “Sex-specific differences in the association between childhood adversity and cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from a national cohort study” in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Yasmin was an MSc student in the APEAL Lab…
Posted: June 7, 2017 at 11:28 am