Monthly Archives: September 2019

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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