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Interventional Brain Medicine (IBM); Neuroimaging; Complexity Science

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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
UBC has this: you go out to walk the dog snd you run into a production…
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Lucia Navarro de Lara presenting at the 3rd TMS-fMRI Workshop, cool technology coming into the field of concurrent neuromodulation-imaging
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New infographic from the lab, on brain imaging as a tool to predict who will improve with #TMS for #depression www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Measuring the coordination of brain regions can predict who will benefit from rTMS for depression
PDF | In this infographic, we break down the results of a study showing how brain imaging can predict who will get better with rTMS to treat depression. | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
New infographic from the lab, providing a visual abstract of a paper where we showed that #TMS may improve cognitive dysfunction in the context of #depression www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Memory can improve after rTMS treatment for those with depression-related cognitive symptoms
PDF | Verbal learning and memory is the ability to remember and repeat back a list of words read out loud after a delay • Most (51%) of the group of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New infographic on the ability of #TMS to modulate the autonomic nervous system as a mechanism to treat #depression. thanks to Michael Smith Health Research Foundation for their support. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) NOT JUST YOUR BRAIN: iTBS-related Changes in Heart Function Heart rate variability (HRV)
PDF | Hear rate variability is the natural variation in time between each heartbeat. The higher the HRV, the more "felxibility" your body can flexibly... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Preprint Alert! MD/PhD Candidate, Elizabeth Gregory first paper of her thesis. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Proximity to an SGC-DLPFC Individualized Functional Target and outcomes in large rTMS clinical trials for Treatment-Resistant Depression
PDF | Background Targeting methods for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with depression now include the use of individual... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We captured brain activity with an MRI scanner in people who were about to receive rTMS for depression by doing their very first treatment inside the MRI Scanner! The way the brain reacted during that first time was linked to improvement full course of rTMS. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) HOW THE BRAIN REACTS TO rTMS CAN PREDICT WHO WILL BENEFIT MOST FROM THIS DEPRESSION TREATMENT
PDF | Have you ever wondered what happens to the brain the first time it receives TMS? We asked this question? We captured brain activity with an MRI... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Congrats Dr. Fiedorowicz, and @OttawaHospital ! braincanada.ca/announcement...
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Brain Canada and BD² announce partnership and new international site to join landmark bipolar disorder research network
Today, Brain Canada and Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder (BD²) announced an international partnership to advance research and transform care for people living with bipolar d...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
When treatments don't work to treat depression, it often indicates a more severe illness. In this infographic, we present a study showing a relationship between number of treatments tried and reduced chances of remission with rTMS. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Level of Resistance and response to rTMS in Depression
PDF | When treatments don't work to treat depression, it often indicates a more severe illness. In this infographic we present a study that show that... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Does handedness matter when considering rTMS for depression? Prior research indicated that perhaps left-handed people might improve more with rTMS. However, research suggests that left and right-handed people improve equally from rTMS. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Dominant hand has no impact on whether someone with depression will improve with rTMS
PDF | A common question posed by people who will receive rTMS for depression is whether handedness matters. Prior research indicated that perhaps... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Developing a robust framework for training in Interventional Brain Medicine is of the essence. Here we present an infographic summarizing work developing a competency-based framework for psychiatry residents. A #KT project; 🙏 Michael Smith Health Research BC. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Infographic trainingNeuromodulation
PDF | Use communication skills and strategies that help the patient and family make informed decisions regarding their health Be able to refer patients... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New infographic from the talented team in the lab working on this Knowledge Translation project. This week "Who is most likely to benefit from rTMS?" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM rTMS?
PDF | Even though repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is largely effective at treating depression even for those who do not respond to... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New research from the CARTBIND Trial, exploring the relationship between sleep and outcomes in #depression. Worse sleep before #rTMS was associated with worse outcomes. Open access to the paper here: www.tmsjournal.org/article/S305...
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Association of sleep disruption with treatment response using intermittent theta-burst stimulation for treatment-resistant depression
Sleep disruption is associated with major depressive disorder. However, it is unclear whether patients’ sleep quality before intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation (iTBS) treatment is associated with re...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Infographic: on accelerated MST; delivered daily for 6 days to people struggling with severe depression. Most people improved, and there were few cognitive side effects. This was the first study to explore giving MST rapidly to improve depression. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) ACCELERATED MAGNETIC SEIZURE THERAPY (MST) FOR TREATMENT OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
PDF | Magnetic Seizure Therapy is a novel form of neuromodulation treatment that leverages electromagnetic induction to trigger generalized seizures in... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Yoga & tDCS have both been shown to improve cognition. Yoga has been shown to help mental health. tDCS stimulates specific regions of the brain and can improve its functioning. We don’t know whether tDCS and yoga amplify the positive effects of each. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Yoga&tDCS +Infographic
PDF | Effect of combined yoga and transcranial direct current stimulation intervention on working memory and mindfulness Mindfulness + Working memory... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Early improvement during a course of rTMS is highly predictive of a good outcome by the end of treatments. However, there are people who may respond to the treatment later on in the course. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Early Improvement predicts TMS response - Infographic
PDF | Early improvement during a course of rTMS is highly predictive of a good outcome by the end of treatments. However, there are people who may... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The first paper from Dr. Zhan's PhD thesis. We are exploring ways to robustly and efficiently accelerate discovery in clinical trials. "Bayesian adaptive enrichment design in multi-arm clinical trials" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bayesian adaptive enrichment design in multi-arm clinical trials: The BayesAET package for R users
Randomized controlled trials seldom assess treatment effect heterogeneity across subpopulations, potentially leading to suboptimal treatment recommend…
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Quality of Life improvement with rTMS", Infographic. #Depression doesn’t just affect mood. It also impacts an individual’s ability to function in daily life. This study explored how the use of rTMS improved QoL and levels of disability in TRD. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Quality of Life Effects of rTMS/iTBS on Quality of Life and Disability in People with Treatment-Resistant Depression
PDF | Depression doesn’t just affect mood. It also impacts an individual’s ability to function in daily life. This study explored how the use of rTMS... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Quality of Life improvement with rTMS", Infographic. #Depression doesn’t just affect mood. It also impacts an individual’s ability to function in daily life. This study explored how the use of rTMS improved QoL and levels of disability in TRD. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Quality of Life Effects of rTMS/iTBS on Quality of Life and Disability in People with Treatment-Resistant Depression
PDF | Depression doesn’t just affect mood. It also impacts an individual’s ability to function in daily life. This study explored how the use of rTMS... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Keller lab is an awesome place to work! Great science, great mentorship, amazing group of people at a world-class institution.
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Corey Keller @coreykeller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are still hiring! Please do reach out if interested in joining a collaborative and energized team of engineers, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists developing new methods to probe the human brain in an effort to improve our treatments for mental health disorders!
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Excitation-Inhibition Balance and Fronto-Limbic Connectivity Drive TMS Treatment Outcomes in Refractory Depression
Depression affects over 350 million people worldwide, with treatment resistance occurring in up to 30% of cases. Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal ...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"Cognitive Impairment in Treatment-Resistant Depression", infographic. This is part of the project "Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Cognitive Impairment in Difficult to Treat Depression: Infographic for general public
PDF | This study found that individuals with depression can be roughly sorted into two groups based on cognitive function: an impaired group and an... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Celebrating the grad of the first cohort of Undergrad NRSC students at UBC 🎉🎉🎉
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Canada can be the global leader in medical research. Being bold isn’t just about seeing an opportunity; it’s about seizing it, by Kevin Smith, @bradwouters.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com @uhnresearch.bsky.social
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Opinion: Canada can be the global leader in medical research
As the U.S. slashes funding to its research initiatives, there is a chance for us to recruit the best talent from around the world
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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National Letter
Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education", This is our second deliverable of this series. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Groups of Symptom Improvement in response to rTMS
PDF | This is part of the project "Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education", a... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Precision Neurotherapeutics Lab @ Stanford @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🧠 NEW PAPER: How do we capture excitability noninvasively in mood and emotion networks in the human brain? Here, we used real-time optimization to improve these measures! @sparmi.bsky.social @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2025.02.261 1/7
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great interview with Elizabeth Gregory, MD/PhD candidate in the lab leading the charge on investigating personalized neuroimaging and neuromodulation in the lab. pathwaysmagazine.med.ubc.ca/interviews/b...
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Training the next generation of clinician-scientists - Pathways Issue 8
The Faculty of Medicine’s MD/PhD program is providing learners with the translational skills they need to develop innovative treatments and more effective care for patients.  Every year, millions of C...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education", a KT grant we received from Michael Smith Health Research BC (healthresearchbc.ca/award/enhanc...) This is our first deliverable of this series: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Enhancing Public Understanding of Interventional Brain Medicine through Lay Abstracts and Social Media Education – Health Research BC
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Opinion: Canada’s U.S. brain gain is risky without more foundational support for science
Scientists want to come to Canada not only to escape the chaos and uncertainty emerging in U.S. science but also because they are drawn to the energy here
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Paper led by Drs Xiao Chen and Tyler Kaster from CAMH providing an awesome tool for "conversion" of scores between widely used clinical scales. Oh, and use the tool with this Shiny app online xiaochenphd.shinyapps.io/scale_crossw...
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Linking HRSD and MADRS
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Assessment and Management of Concurrent Substance Use in Patients Receiving Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Depressive, Obsessive-Compulsive, Psychotic, and Trauma-Related Disorders: ...
Objective: Limited data are available to inform clinicians on how to manage concurrent substance use in the context of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of depressi...
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Precision Neurotherapeutics Lab @ Stanford @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🧠 We are #hiring! Postdoc @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social: help us develop closed-loop EEG platforms to improve TMS treatment for depression! Coding and neuroscience / engineering backgrounds required. Join our team! precisionneuro.stanford.edu email: ckeller1@stanford.edu
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/03/2025
Canada adding PFAS to toxic substances list in 'unprecedented' move www.cbc.ca/news/science... @inayatsingh.com 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault said the move to regulate PFAS as a whole class of chemicals puts Canada at the forefront of regulating the persistent chemicals.
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Brain function fluctuates daily—but what drives these changes? direct.mit.edu/imag/article... super proud of Deniz Yilmaz and Bianca Serio and thankful for the open data of @emilyjacobs.bsky.social and Laura Pritschet 🌈👫 studying hormonal fluctuations in functional gradients ❤️‍🔥
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Nature @nature.com · 06/03/2025
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4bpG2It
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Pubmed is down. Europepmc.org seems a sensible alternative for those in need (like writing a grant that is due this week 😅)
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Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
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Elizabeth Gregory @lizgregory.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#BrainStimConf
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Dr. Mona Nemer / Dre Mona Nemer @chiefscican.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Happy National #FlagDay! From medical breakthroughs to space exploration, Canadian science drives innovation and shapes the future. So much to be proud of—let’s celebrate the ingenuity and impact of our researchers! #ScienceInCanada
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Nothing in the news about this in Canada. We are too wrapped up in telling each other the US is bad. But this is damage inflicted on American scientists by the US administration. They are eating their future. We need to understand that its not all about us. 70% of Americans didn’t vote for him. /1
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I am thrilled to announce the new Interventional Brain Medicine Program in the Dpt. of Psychiatry at #UBC. It is great to co-direct the program with Dr. Chritin Fabriel-Leclerc. Stay tuned for educational, research, and KT activities! psychiatry.ubc.ca/about/depart... @ubcmedicine.bsky.social
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Departmental Sites, Divisions & Programs - Department of Psychiatry
Map of Health Authorities in British Columbia (source) Departmental Sites Clinical services, psychiatric training, and research are distributed in the five sites of the UBC Department of Psychiatry lo...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends in the US; I’m sorry to hear about the stress you must be going through related to the uncertainty about funding. I hope this resolves soon with the minimal impact possible so you can continue with the outstanding work you do.
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Right-side low-frequency rTMS improved major depressive symptoms
The first study of its kind into low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a specific region of the brain shows promising results for individuals with treatment-resistant de...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
From the ENIGMA NeuroModulation WG www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
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The ENIGMA-Neuromodulation Working Group – A Mission Statement
Founded in 2009, the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) [1] consortium brings together 2,000+ researchers from over 47 countries with the shared mission of pooling brain im...
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab. doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Ninet Lab @ninetlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Interesting small sample size open label trial using accelerated iTBS. Plenty of good practical insights journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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The Scania Accelerated Intermittent Theta-burst Implementation Study (SATIS)–Lessons from an accelerated treatment protocol
Background and objective The Scania Accelerated Intermittent Theta-burst Implementation Study (SATIS) aimed to investigate the tolerability, preliminary effectiveness, and practical feasibility of an ...
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