Category Archives: News

Congratulations to APEAL PhD Student Kiyuri Naicker, who has published a new paper in Diabetes Care based on her dissertation research. The paper, written in collaboration with experts at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the University of Bergen, and the … Continue reading →

At the 2016 European Psychiatric Association Epidemiology Section meeting in Goteborg, Sweden, at the end of November, several  Lab members were on stage. PhD student Kiyuri Naicker was invited to present during a symposium on diabetes and mental health, PhD … Continue reading →

In their recent paper “Predictors of Suicidal Behaviors in Canadian Adolescents with No Recent History of Depression“, Murray Weeks and Ian Colman examine factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the absence of depressive symptoms. Among teenagers with … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Nathalie MacKinnon and Ian Colman on their recently published article in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Their study compared suicidal ideation in transition aged youth (ages 18-24) versus adults (ages 25-44). They found that suicidal ideation was more … Continue reading →

Kudos to Dr. Mila Kingsbury, and her lab co-authors Murray Weeks, Nathalie MacKinnon, Jennifer Dykxhoorn, and Ian Colman, for their recent paper in the Journal of the American Academy of Child &  Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) on prenatal stress and offspring … Continue reading →

  APEAL Phd student, Michael Martin, published this week in the journal ‘Public Health’. The article, titled “Food insecurity and mental illness: disproportionate impacts in the context of perceived stress and social isolation“, addresses the co-occurence of food insecurity and … Continue reading →

Note: This position has been filled. Thank you to all applicants The APEAL Lab is currently looking for a biostatistician/analyst to work on a CIHR-funded project on the relationship between depression and mortality. Closing date for applications is November 16, … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Marc-André Bélair for the successful defence of his MSc. thesis this morning! MAB’s thesis is entitled “The relationship between physical and sedentary activity on the mental health outcomes of children and youth in the National Longitudinal Survey of … Continue reading →

New research from the APEAL lab was recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The study, titled: “Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and depressive symptoms: evidence from a national Canadian longitudinal survey” used 10 years of … Continue reading →

Recent APEAL research is making headlines! Published in the lighthearted Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal, the paper, titled “CARTOONS_KILL: Casualties in Animated Recreational Theater in an Objective Observational New Study of Kids’ Introduction to Loss of Life“, examines … Continue reading →