Congratulations to APEAL graduate Shaezeen Syed, whose research has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Her paper, ‘Adolescents’ knowledge of a peer’s non-suicidal self-injury and own non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality’ examines the contagion hypothesis for non-suicidal self-injury,…
With students and staff struggling to keep up morale during the pandemic, APEAL lab director Ian Colman organized a virtual event to boost everyone’s spirits. An evening of virtual trivia was just what the Professor…
Congratulations to APEAL PhD student Nicole Hammond, who was recently awarded a CIHR Frederick Banting & Charles Best Doctoral Studentship. This competitive scholarship provides three years of funding to students pursuing doctoral degrees in health-related fields.…
A hearty round of applause to APEAL lab member François Thériault, who successfully defended his PhD thesis ”Major depression in the Canadian Armed Forces: a study of incidence and mental health service use” on April 30th.…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…