Andreea Diaconescu

Research

Psychosis Social Learning Brain Imaging Cognition Suicide Adolescents Auditory Mismatch Negativity Clinical High Risk

Latest papers

Electroencephalogram microstates in Alzheimer's dementia and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
Characterizing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in individuals presenting to a psychiatric emergency department: a protocol for a multimethod approach for suicide prevention research.
BMJ open · 2025
Characterization and prediction of individual functional outcome trajectories in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (PREDICTS study): Study protocol.
PloS one · 2023

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Synthesizing Cognitive Control and Decision-Making Risk Factors for Suicide Attempt in Adults At High-Risk for Suicide: A Suicide Ideation-to-Action Approach
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$1,323,450
SNT-PSY: Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in Psychosis
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$200,000
Computational Modelling of Perception and Cognition in Help-seeking Youth for Psychosis Prevention
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$627,300

All 8 grants and awards

4 publications.

01

Electroencephalogram microstates in Alzheimer's dementia and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Das S, Mdawar B, Diaconescu A, Hill AT, Desarkar P, Ma C, Zrenner C, De Luca V, Zomorrodi R, Rajji TK

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2026.2111856 PMID: 41896041

02

Characterizing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in individuals presenting to a psychiatric emergency department: a protocol for a multimethod approach for suicide prevention research.

Baharikhoob P, Maslej M, Wong AHC, Mulsant B, Blumberger D, Courtney D, Husain MI, Kurdyak P, Kleinman RA, Torfason A, Gajaria A, Diaconescu A, Ma A, Sonley A, Abramovich A, Crawford A, Petronis A, Fage B, Orchard C, Buchman DZ, Liu F, Strudwick G, Lam JSH, Berrevoets M, Mozuraitis M, Reid N, Husain O, Ali S, McMain S, De Luca V, Stergiopoulos V, Lunsky Y, Zaheer J

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087561 PMID: 40228850

03

Characterization and prediction of individual functional outcome trajectories in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (PREDICTS study): Study protocol.

Agarwal SM, Dissanayake J, Agid O, Bowie C, Brierley N, Chintoh A, De Luca V, Diaconescu A, Gerretsen P, Graff-Guerrero A, Hawco C, Herman Y, Hill S, Hum K, Husain MO, Kennedy JL, Kiang M, Kidd S, Kozloff N, Maslej M, Mueller DJ, Naeem F, Neufeld N, Remington G, Rotenberg M, Selby P, Siddiqui I, Szacun-Shimizu K, Tiwari AK, Thirunavukkarasu S, Wang W, Yu J, Zai CC, Zipursky R, Hahn M, Foussias G

PloS one2023

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288354 PMID: 37733693

04

Learning alters local face space geometry.

Wilson HR, Diaconescu A

Vision research2006Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.001 PMID: 17007901

Synthesizing Cognitive Control and Decision-Making Risk Factors for Suicide Attempt in Adults At High-Risk for Suicide: A Suicide Ideation-to-Action Approach

Principal investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ruocco, Anthony C; Diaconescu, Andreea O

Keywords: Brain Imaging; Cognition; Suicide

$1,323,450

SNT-PSY: Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in Psychosis

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research - General iCT

Principal investigators: Benrimoh, David A; Palaniyappan, Lena K

Keywords: Psychosis; Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Rtms Treatment

$200,000

Computational Modelling of Perception and Cognition in Help-seeking Youth for Psychosis Prevention

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Diaconescu, Andreea O

Keywords: Adolescents; Auditory Mismatch Negativity; Clinical High Risk; Computational Modelling; Electroencephalography; Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling; Psychosis; Reinforcement Learning; Social Learning; Youth Populations

$627,300

The Role of Neuromodulatory Systems in Meta-Learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Diaconescu, Andreea

$78,000

The Role of Neuromodulatory Systems in Meta-Learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Diaconescu, Andreea

$12,500

Developing neurocomputational assays for suicidality to improve understanding, diagnosis and prevention interventions

SupervisorCIHR2021CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Karvelis, Povilas

Keywords: Neurocomputational Mechanisms Of Suicidality; Novel Tools For Individualized Psychiatry

$90,000

Deciphering Metacognition and Treatment Response in Depression With a Novel Digital Paradigm

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Bhat, Venkat

$250,000

Computational assays for individual treatment predictions in first episode psychosis.

Nominated PICIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Diaconescu, Andreea O

Keywords: Acetylcholine; Antipsychotic Treatment; Bayesian Models; Dopamine; Eeg; Fmri; Psychosis; Reward Learning; Schizophrenia; Social Learning

$325,124

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Research Imaging Center
Neurosciences
Psychological Clinical Science
Psychology
Clinical Public Health Division
Department of Psychiatry
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Nicole Kozloff

Department of Psychiatry

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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