UBC Institute of Mental Health
@UBC_IMH
Mental health research catalyst within the UBC Department of Psychiatry. Transformative impact via training, innovation, and clinical translation.
Join for our 14th event on July 17! We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Laura K.M. Han to introduce their latest work on Brain Age in Major Depressive Disorder. Scan the QR code to participate! @UBC_Psychiatry @UBC_IMH
🌟 IMH SHOWCASE: Meet Dr. Abhijit Chinchani (@chinchani_a_m), an IMH Marshall Fellow! Read about his work bridging electrical engineering with neuroscience and mental health: psychiatry.ubc.ca/institute-of-m… @UBC_Psychiatry
🎉 Congratulations to this year's Marshall Fellowship awardees, Drs. Leena Chau, Laura Labonté, Victor Li, and Rahele Mesbah! Read about their exciting research in mental health: psychiatry.ubc.ca/institute-of-m…
💡 Did you miss the last PROGRESS webinar on Interventional Brain Medicine? Watch the recording (and others from our series) on our YouTube channel! youtube.com/watch?v=7HB1yd…
A big thank you to Dr. Mahesh Menon and Dr. Pouya Azar @AddictionThat, who delivered faculty lectures at today's Research Day. We had a fantastic turnout and engagement from our participants and attendees. Thanks to all who joined @UBC_Psychiatry's annual event!
INVITING APPLICATIONS! @UBC_Psychiatry encourages qualified candidates to apply for a tenure-stream faculty position based at Royal Columbian Hospital. Click on the link to learn more about this exciting faculty career opportunity! bit.ly/4520RIN #CareerOpportunity
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The next PROGRESS webinar is May 27 @ 1pm! 💡 Join Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez (@NinetLab) to learn about clinical advances in neuromodulation techniques to treat psychiatric & neurological conditions. 📆 Register: psychiatry.ubc.ca/interventional… @UBC_Psychiatry
💥 Don't miss this free webinar on neuromodulation in psychiatry - next Tuesday, May 27th at 1pm! Register here: psychiatry.ubc.ca/interventional…
The next PROGRESS webinar is May 27 @ 1pm! 💡 Join Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez (@NinetLab) to learn about clinical advances in neuromodulation techniques to treat psychiatric & neurological conditions. 📆 Register: psychiatry.ubc.ca/interventional… @UBC_Psychiatry
Join us for our 13th event on May 20! We're excited to welcome @DavidRen555 who will present DeepPrep, their latest work on deep learning for fMRI processing, recently published in Nature Methods. Scan the QR code to register for free! @UBC_Psychiatry @UBC_IMH
The next PROGRESS webinar is May 27 @ 1pm! 💡 Join Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez (@NinetLab) to learn about clinical advances in neuromodulation techniques to treat psychiatric & neurological conditions. 📆 Register: psychiatry.ubc.ca/interventional… @UBC_Psychiatry
Congratulations to Dr. Ruiyang Ge (@RuiyangGe) for his engaging talk on generalizing "brain age" measures across ethnoracial groups at today's #SOBP2025 symposium! @DMCBrainHealth @UBC_Psychiatry
Meet Dr. Mahesh Menon. His latest research investigates novel treatments for schizophrenia spectrum disorders Join Dr. Menon & fellow Dept. members at our 2025 @UBC_Psychiatry Research Day, Thur. June 5 at UBC LSC! REGISTRATION OPEN: bit.ly/418jreC **UBC CPD-accredited
Join us for our 2025 @UBC_Psychiatry Research Day, Thur. June 5 at UBC LSC! Our plenary speaker this year is @UofTPsych's Dr. Mahavir Agarwal discussing metabolic health in mental illness. ATTENDEE REGISTRATION IS OPEN: bit.ly/418jreC **UBC CPD-accredited
This event is just around the corner! Scan the QR code to join for free!
Join for our 12th event on April 10! We're thrilled to welcome @loliver_4 from @CAMHResearch to introduce their latest work on individualized TMS targeting in schizophrenia using Bayesian optimization. Scan the QR code to participate! @UBC_Psychiatry @UBC_IMH
Did you miss the last PROGRESS webinar, "Scientific Publishing in the Age of AI"? 💡 Watch it now on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/z7qV4aRHfmQ
🌟 IMH SHOWCASE: Meet Dr. Nicole Sanford (@nicsanford1), IMH Research Manager and a former Marshall Fellow! Read about her work in brain aging and mental health: psychiatry.ubc.ca/institute-of-m… @UBC_Psychiatry
New preprint alert ⚠ Adults with a history of depression show differences in brain aging based on lifestyle. Those with balanced habits had the lowest mood symptoms and brainAGE, while those with poor diet and inactivity showed the highest. Lifestyle matters. Preprint:…
Where I write on #BipolarDisorder on the occasion of #WorldBipolarDay2025 in an invited essay for @the_hindu @TheHinduScience. @AskDrShashank @askdheeraj @aneetamutgi @AnantBhan @psych_indore @mhsf_india @BipolarUK @VijayNallawala @UBC_IMH @ubcmood @sanilrege @kris_sg…
#WorldBipolarDay | More often than not, bipolar disorder begins with periods of depression, and sometimes a decade may elapse before the onset of hypomanic or manic episodes, Alok Kulkarni writes. thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien…
💥 Don't miss tomorrow's webinar on AI tools in publishing! psychiatry.ubc.ca/scientific-pub…
The next PROGRESS webinar is March 27 @ 11am! 💡 Dr. Sophia Frangou (@Frangougroup ) will review how researchers can use emerging AI tools in publishing without compromising principles of academic scholarship. 📆 Register: psychiatry.ubc.ca/scientific-pub…. @UBC_Psychiatry @DMCBrainHealth
🧠 New preprint alert! We show that data patterns—not just algorithms—drive performance in ML-based patient stratification for brain disorders. Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2503.12066. #AI #Neuroimaging #MachineLearning #Biotypes @RuiyangGe @UBC_Psychiatry @UBC_IMH @MountSinaiPsych