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The mental health arm of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (@hotchkissbrain) . We do research and education in all things mental health
Joined November 2017
Exciting news, you can now keep up with the Mathison Centre on all of your favourite social media platforms! Find us @mathisoncentre on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to stay up to date on all things Mathison - research, news, events, and more!.
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How can we better support youth mental health?. Join the Community of Practice event featuring Mathison’s Dr. Paul Arnold & partners sharing research + strategies for schools & youth organizations. Register and find more details here:
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Join our next Community of Practice event focused on youth mental health highlighting local research, community initiatives, and discussion!
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Congratulations to Dr. Valerie Taylor, MD, PhD, Mathison Centre and Hotchkiss Brain Institute member, on being elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS)! đź”—Learn more about Dr. Taylor and the Fellowship:
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Fellowship recognizes exceptional leadership and scholarship in health sciences
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🎉 @UCalgary's Dr. Nicholas (Mathison Centre) and Dr. Tait have received a $2.5M SSHRC Partnership Grant to improve supports for neurodivergent individuals & families. Shoutout to Mathison Centre co-applicants Dr. Arnold, Dr. Dimitropoulos, & Dr. McMorris!
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Social work researcher Dr. David Nicholas and colleagues to address gaps in accessing services
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🧬 New preprint from Lilit Antonyan, PhD, & colleagues reveal how genes tied to obsessive-compulsive symptoms in kids connect with other mental health conditions from OCD to anxiety. Discover the findings:
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Here, we present the first genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a sample of clinically diagnosed pediatric participants and healthy controls. Using a psychiatric questi...
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Two University of Calgary led research projects are helping to build the largest-ever collection of human genomic data in Canada. One of the projects is led by Dr. Arnold, MD, PhD, and focuses on precision medicine and youth mental health. Learn more here:
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UCalgary working with Genome Canada on pair of Canadian Precision Health Initiative-funded projects
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Dr. Gina Dimitropoulos, PhD, along with Dr. Barbic, colleagues from Foundry and UBC trainees, published on the experience of youth peer support workers supporting youth affected by a mental health and/or substance use disorder.
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Community Mental Health Journal - Youth peer support workers (YPSWs) use lived/living experience to provide support. However, there is a knowledge gap about service impact on YPSWs themselves. To...
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RT @MayoOnTheBrain: Are you in the #Calgary area and want to learn more about the promise & perils of #psychedelics?. Join us for a TapTalk….
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RT @OntarioBrain: Just a few minutes of daily #meditation can change how your brain responds to stress. 🧠Perfect for #InternationalSelfCar….
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RT @HotchkissBrain: Come visit our booth at @INVENTUREScan 2025!. Our wonderful HBITO graduate students have a variety of interactive activ….
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RT @drrajitastress: @MathisonCentre @canna_brain @MayoOnTheBrain @Heilig_Lab @HotchkissBrain @UofCr4kids It was a fabulous day of great sci….
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A huge thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making "The Intersection of Stress and Addiction" such a success!
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Our final keynote speaker, Dr. Markus Heilig @Heilig_Lab, delivered a thought-provoking talk on “Deconstructing alcohol addiction in search of druggable molecular mechanisms”!
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Mathison postdoc Dr. Ryann Tansey walked us through her exciting work on “Associations between acute alcohol intake, peripheral endocannabinoid concentrations, and the neural processing of reward and affect in healthy humans” @pact_lab
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Keynote speaker Dr. Rajita Sinha @drrajitastress wrapped up the morning session with a brilliant presentation on “How Can We Rescue the Adaptive Stress Responses in Addiction Risk and Relapse”!
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The research day continues with Mathison’s very own Dr. Stephanie Borgland on “How Orexin and Dynorphin Rewire the Brain's Reward Circuit After Morphine”
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Mathison trainee Erika Harding took us on a deep dive into “Blocking microglial pannexin-1 in the locus coeruleus alleviates opioid withdrawal”!
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Our first keynote speaker, Dr. Nick Gilpin, gave an insightful talk titled “Old dogs and new tricks in the search for treatments to reduce escalated alcohol drinking after stress”!
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Dr. Matt Hill @canna_brain kicked “The Intersection of Stress and Addiction” off with opening remarks!
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May 9 - Don't miss out!. Dive into groundbreaking research with keynotes, expert talks, and trainee presentations exploring the intersection of stress and addiction, and what that means for research, treatment, and policy. Register:
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