Cognition in Psychological Disorders Laboratory at Queen's University

CPD Labbers Michael Grossman and Mike Best joined forces with Dr Allyson Harrison and found that in spite of not meeting criteria for any diagnoses, those with elevated psychotic, but not depressive, symptoms had broad cognitive impairments. Online publication out today! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eip.12713

Happy to share that recent grad Sid Lichtenstein is joining CPD collaborators at CAMH in the early psychosis team. Congrats, Sid!

Congrats to CPD alum Katherine Holshausen on receiving the Constantine Douketis New Researcher Award for her work at St. Joe's in Hamilton!

Congrats to all of the Queen's winners of the CPA awards, including our own Tanya Tran and Katherine Holshausen! http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/feature-story-cpa-winners

Congratulations to Michael Grossman! Michael has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at CAMH, where he will continue his work in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, starting this fall.

Great job Sid, presenting an analysis of anxiety and jumping to conclusions bias in early psychosis at the Queen's Psychiatry Research Day yesterday.

Congratulations to incoming CPD grad student (and of course undergrad alum) Chelsea Wood-Ross on receiving the Ontario Graduate Scholarship!

Rounding out the CPD Lab presentations at Society for Affective Sciences - Stephanie Woolridge presents her work on using real time eye tracker feedback to modify biased attention to negative stimuli.

Congratulations to Tanya on her talk at Society for Affective Sciences conference AND receiving a SSHRC PhD scholarship on the same day!

Nice job Maya on CTV London last night! https://london.ctvnews.ca/video

Congrats to Stephanie Woolridge on receiving a CIHR student fellowship!

New paper led by Melissa Milanovic showing that performance-based functional measures capture skills in MDD and that self-perceptions of functioning abilities have lower concordance with objective assessment. https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0165032717322802

Great news for the CPD and Mood labs at Queen's! We learned today that we received funding from CIHR through the Patient-Oriented Research program to study mental health outcomes of University students, including medical students, at Queen's Univ with Co-PI Anne Duffy and Kate Harkness. Now we need to get the next CIHR grant in by Tuesday. Right back at it!

Mike Best from our lab talks about his visiting scholar work with the Beck Institute and Tony Morrison. Great funding opportunities for Canadian grad students to enhance their training http://www.queensu.ca//feature-story-mike-best-february-20

Congratulations to Melissa Milanovic! One of her MSc project papers was just accepted by J of Nervous and Mental Disease - our most historic journal (first issue, 1867). This paper focused on bridging the gap between functional abilities and real world behaviour, with an emphasis on the role of self-efficacy. Well done, Mel, and co-authors and CPD alum, Sasha, Katherine, and Emma on this paper!

New editorial out in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - we don't yet know if cognitive training works for healthy or cognitively concerned older adults, but we also don't know that it doesn't work. A call for more research in this area. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.15230/pdf

Congratulations to CPD colleague, Mashal Haque, on her recent publication. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29235251

Summary of the Bringing Cognitive Remediation to BC conference from @BCPsychosis : http://bcpsychosis.org//bc-hosts-first-canadian-conferenc/

Melissa presenting objective and subjective ratings of functional competence in depression at the 2017 Queen's Mood and Anxiety Disorders conference.