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...

Lucia Navarro de Lara presenting at the 3rd TMS-fMRI Workshop, cool technology coming into the field of concurrent neuromodulation-imaging

New infographic from the lab, on brain imaging as a tool to predict who will improve with #TMS for #depression www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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/...

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/...

Preprint Alert! MD/PhD Candidate, Elizabeth Gregory first paper of her thesis. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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/...

Congrats Dr. Fiedorowicz, and @OttawaHospital ! braincanada.ca/announcement...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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...

"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/...

"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/...

Keller lab is an awesome place to work! Great science, great mentorship, amazing group of people at a world-class institution.

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!

"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/...

Celebrating the grad of the first cohort of Undergrad NRSC students at UBC 🎉🎉🎉

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

"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/...

🧠 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

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...

"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/...

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...

🧠 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: [email protected]

Canada adding PFAS to toxic substances list in 'unprecedented' move www.cbc.ca/news/science... @inayatsingh.com 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

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 ❤️‍🔥

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”. https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

Pubmed is down. Europepmc.org seems a sensible alternative for those in need (like writing a grant that is due this week 😅)

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

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

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

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.

From the ENIGMA NeuroModulation WG www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

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...

Interesting small sample size open label trial using accelerated iTBS. Plenty of good practical insights journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Check out our lab's latest work, finding a common network that unites atrophy patterns in schizophrenia. Also, hello bsky!

hot off the presses 🚨🗞️📰 just in time to close out #ACNP2024!! RCT of 10 days of frontal pole cTBS for cocaine use disorder — reduced cocaine use (100% abstinence 2 mo after real tms!!!) and reduced cocaine cue reactivity — small sample but exciting prelim data! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...