The APEAL lab congratulates Michael Martin, whose first-author paper “The incidence and prediction of self-injury among sentenced prisoners” was recently published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. The paper reported on the incidence of…
Congratulations to APEAL lab student Kiyuri Naicker, who was recently awarded a PhD studentship by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. Kiyuri will use this 3-year award to fund her doctoral research on the relationships between…
Friday, March 21, was a big day for APEAL lab students. Kiyuri Naicker successfully passed her PhD candidacy exam; Michael Martin won first prize for best PhD student presentation at the Department of Epidemiology and…
Dr. Colman was recently one of the featured researchers at a uOttawa Faculty of Medicine gala, hosted by CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi. The evening featured Cirque du Soleil performers and several magicians, highlighting the link between…
The APEAL lab congratulates Dr. Murray Weeks, who recently had a first-author paper accepted for publication in the journal Depression and Anxiety. The paper examined trajectories of anxious/depressive symptoms from childhood to adolescence, as well…
A new research paper from Michael Martin, a Ph.D. student in the APEAL lab, was recently published in BMC Psychiatry. The paper, titled “Mental Health Screening Tools in Correctional Institutions: A Systematic Review” highlights some…
APEAL lab research has been featured in a recent article for the Christian Science Monitor. The article highlights research on teen suicide and prevention, including a recent paper APEAL lab on suicide contagion. Click here…
Congratulations to APEAL lab Ph.D. student Michael Martin, who was recently awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His current research is investigating rates of change in mental health problems over the first year of incarceration…
Congratulations to Dr. Murray Weeks, whose first-author paper on the association between cognitive development in childhood and symptoms of anxiety/depression in adolescence was accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The paper showed…
The APEAL Lab was well represented at the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Leipzig, Germany, in June. MSc student Marc-André Bélair presented a paper entitled “Movement as medicine: The relationship between physical activity and…