Inflammation in the body causes physical pain each day for untold millions of people, and in that respect it is a well-known and well-understood medical problem. Much less well understood is the role of inflammation in psychiatric illness—a silent phenomenon that has been the subject of speculation for decades and in recent years the focus of increasingly intense research.
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Young Investigator Grant
One of the great challenges for psychiatric research is arriving at a reliable way of diagnosing bipolar disorder, and doing so as early in the course of the illness as possible so as to boost the chances of effective treatment and disease management.
Among young people under age 18 who are diagnosed with disorders on the bipolar spectrum (BD), as many as one in two attempts suicide. Of all psychiatric diagnoses in this age group, BD is associated with the highest risk of suicide death, psychological autopsy-based research has indicated.
Open Conversations and Expert Insights About Mental Health Issues Facing Today’s Children, Adolescents and Adults
When someone develops mild cognitive impairment (MCI), is there a way of predicting whether that individual will go on to develop dementia?New research sheds important new light on the question.
On October 27, 2023, we held our International Mental Health Research Symposium.
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Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
UC San Diego Health
Scientific Council Member (Joined 2017)
2008 Independent Investigator Grant
2006, 2004 Young Investigator Grant
Zafiris J. Daskalakis is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the UC San Diego. He was formerly the Temerty Chair in Therapeutic Brain Intervention and Chief of the Mood and Anxiety Division at CAMH. His research involves the use of magnetic brain stimulation to study the role of cortical inhibition, plasticity and connectivity as potential pathophysiological mechanisms in schizophrenia, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. Dr. Daskalakis also conducts treatment studies using repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (rTMS), magnetic seizure therapy (MST) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for resistant symptoms in these disorders. He has received several national and international awards and distinctions including the Samarthji Lal Award in Mental Health Research from the Graham Boeckh Foundation for the top mid-career neuropsychopharmacology researcher in Canada in 2013. He also holds or has held NIMH and CIHR peer-reviewed funding and has also mentored numerous NARSAD Young Investigator awardees.
Women and men are known to have different vulnerabilities to psychiatric and other illnesses. There are a variety of reasons, including biological differences between the sexes and a vast number of socio-demographic and cultural factors.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Denver
2019 Young Investigator Grant
Kimberly Chiew, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and director of the Motivation, Affect, & Cognition Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. Dr. Chiew’s research combines behavioral, psychophysiological, and neural approaches to characterize how emotional and motivational influences modulate cognitive performance, with a particular focus on cognitive control and memory encoding outcomes, and how these relationships can change with development and psychopathology. Dr. Chiew has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and has received research and fellowship support from the National Institute of Mental Health, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
