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Cynthia Calkin

ResearcherDalhousie University

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Cynthia Calkin

Researcher

Health Sciences

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2015.

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Research

Bipolar Disorders Brain Imaging Cognitive Testing Peripheral Biomarkers Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Latest papers

Understanding the role of cannabis in patients with suicidal ideation presenting to the emergency department: systematic chart review.
BJPsych open · 2025
Physical comorbidities of older age bipolar disorder (OABD) patients: A global replication analysis of prevalence and sex differences
General Hospital Psychiatry · 2024
Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Blood-brain barrier leakage in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with gray matter loss and cognitive impairment'' by Pamuk and Hasni.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2023

All 17 publications

Latest funding

Is type 2 diabetes mellitus a risk factor for neuroanatomical changes, cognitive impairment and oxidative stress in bipolar disorders?
CIHR · 2015 · Principal investigator
$679,220

All 1 grants and awards

17 publications.

Understanding the role of cannabis in patients with suicidal ideation presenting to the emergency department: systematic chart review.

Simmons M, Crocker CE, Fisher D, Stewart SH, Emsley JG, Abidi S, Carter A, Calkin C, Yakovenko I, Magee K, Tibbo PG

BJPsych open2025

DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2025.10776 PMID: 40922512

Physical comorbidities of older age bipolar disorder (OABD) patients: A global replication analysis of prevalence and sex differences

Teixeira AL, Almeida OP, Lavin P, Barbosa IG, Alda M, Altinbas K, Balanzá-Martínez V, Briggs FBS, Calkin C, Chen P

General Hospital Psychiatry202417 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2024.06.004

Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Blood-brain barrier leakage in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with gray matter loss and cognitive impairment'' by Pamuk and Hasni.

Kamintsky L, Beyea SD, Fisk JD, Hashmi JA, Omisade A, Calkin C, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Quraan M, Mitnitski A, Matheson K, Friedman A, Hanly JG

Annals of the rheumatic diseases2023

DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220057 PMID: 33622691

Essential data dimensions for prospective international data collection in older age bipolar disorder (OABD): Recommendations from the GAGE‐BD group

Lavin P, Rej S, Olagunju AT, Teixeira AL, Dols A, Alda M, Almeida OP, Altinbas K, Balanzá‐Martínez V, Barbosa IG

Bipolar Disorders202312 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13312 PMID: W4322495144

Reversal of insulin resistance is associated with repair of blood-brain barrier dysfunction and remission in a patient with treatment-resistant bipolar depression.

Calkin C, Kamintsky L, Friedman A

Bipolar disorders2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13199 PMID: 35247029

Role of autoantibodies and blood-brain barrier leakage in cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Hanly JG, Legge A, Kamintsky L, Friedman A, Hashmi JA, Beyea SD, Fisk J, Omisade A, Calkin C, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Matheson K, Fritzler MJ

Lupus science & medicine2022

DOI: 10.1136/lupus-2022-000668 PMID: 35705307

Symptoms reported by Canadians posted in Havana are linked with reduced white matter fibre density.

Aristi G, Kamintsky L, Ross M, Bowen C, Calkin C, Friedman A, Hashmi JA

Brain communications2022

DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac053 PMID: 35505689

Insulin Resistance and Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction Underlie Neuroprogression in Bipolar Disorder.

Calkin C, McClelland C, Cairns K, Kamintsky L, Friedman A

Frontiers in psychiatry2021First author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.636174 PMID: 34113269

Blood-brain barrier leakage in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with gray matter loss and cognitive impairment.

Kamintsky L, Beyea SD, Fisk JD, Hashmi JA, Omisade A, Calkin C, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Quraan M, Mitnitski A, Matheson K, Friedman A, Hanly JG

Annals of the rheumatic diseases2020

DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218004 PMID: 33004325

The association between lithium use and neurocognitive performance in patients with bipolar disorder.

Burdick KE, Millett CE, Russo M, Alda M, Alliey-Rodriguez N, Anand A, Balaraman Y, Berrettini W, Bertram H, Calabrese JR, Calkin C, Conroy C, Coryell W, DeModena A, Feeder S, Fisher C, Frazier N, Frye M, Gao K, Garnham J, Gershon ES, Glazer K, Goes FS, Goto T, Harrington GJ, Jakobsen P, Kamali M, Kelly M, Leckband S, Løberg EM, Lohoff FW, Maihofer AX, McCarthy MJ, McInnis M, Morken G, Nievergelt CM, Nurnberger J, Oedegaard KJ, Ortiz A, Ritchey M, Ryan K, Schinagle M, Schwebel C, Shaw M, Shilling P, Slaney C, Stapp E, Tarwater B, Zandi P, Kelsoe JR

Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2020

DOI: 10.1038/s41386-020-0683-2 PMID: 32349118

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Cynthia Calkin

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Understanding the role of cannabis in patients with suicidal ideation presenting to the emergency department: systematic chart review.

Physical comorbidities of older age bipolar disorder (OABD) patients: A global replication analysis of prevalence and sex differences

Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Blood-brain barrier leakage in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with gray matter loss and cognitive impairment'' by Pamuk and Hasni.

Essential data dimensions for prospective international data collection in older age bipolar disorder (OABD): Recommendations from the GAGE‐BD group

Reversal of insulin resistance is associated with repair of blood-brain barrier dysfunction and remission in a patient with treatment-resistant bipolar depression.

Role of autoantibodies and blood-brain barrier leakage in cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Symptoms reported by Canadians posted in Havana are linked with reduced white matter fibre density.

Insulin Resistance and Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction Underlie Neuroprogression in Bipolar Disorder.

Blood-brain barrier leakage in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with gray matter loss and cognitive impairment.

The association between lithium use and neurocognitive performance in patients with bipolar disorder.

Is type 2 diabetes mellitus a risk factor for neuroanatomical changes, cognitive impairment and oxidative stress in bipolar disorders?

Frequent collaborators

Martin Alda

Alon Friedman

Tomas Hajek

Abigail Ortiz

Soham Rej

Andrew Olagunju

John Fisk

Igor Yakovenko

Ayal Schaffer

Benoit Mulsant

Verinder Sharma

Anne Duffy

Derek Fisher

Benicio Frey

Rudolf Uher