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Mood Disorders

Treatment for those with severe and persistent mental illness remains a significant need for the community. In Hamilton, robust services for treatment of mood disorders, as well as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, are available in inpatient and outpatient settings. These programs promote recovery through multilayered care plans involving expert use of pharmacotherapy as well as other biological, social and behavioural interventions.

The mood disorders program includes a large, outpatient program, a 24 bed inpatient unit and a robust cohort of researchers. All residents have opportunity to gain skill in the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

The Schizophrenia & Community Integration Service is a large service encompassing three inpatient units, an outpatient case management service, three assertive community treatment (ACT) teams and a First Episode Clinic.

In addition to training opportunities in multi-disciplinary settings, residents have opportunities to participate in a wide spectrum of ongoing research, including:

  • Pathways to care, including in ethnic minorities
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Relation between substance abuse and schizophrenia
  • Neuro-cognition and the neurophysiology of language processing in psychosis
  • Protein and genetic indicators for responsiveness to treatment
  • Patient preferences for services
  • LGBTQ2S+ community and their experience of psychosis
  • Community Treatment Order (CTO) process and predictors of success
  • Models for testing compounds for treatment, including PCP and amphetamine models

Contributing Members

Benicio Frey

Benicio Frey

MD, MSC, PHD

Associate Professor

Faculty

Gary Hasey

Associate Professor

Faculty

Margaret McKinnon

Margaret McKinnon

Associate Chair, Research

Faculty

Heather McNeely

Heather McNeely

PhD, CPsych

Director, Interprofessional Faculty Development

Faculty

Luciano Minuzzi

MD, FRCPC

Associate Chair, Education

Faculty

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Ram Mishra

MS, PhD

Professor

Faculty