Robert Zipursky, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Re-examining Maintenance Antipsychotic Treatment in Schizophrenia: "Extended" Antipsychotic Dosing
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$856,800
Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Schizophrenia (MAST) - Trial
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$898,876
Imaging synaptic density in schizophrenia
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$531,675

All 7 grants and awards

No publications available.

Re-examining Maintenance Antipsychotic Treatment in Schizophrenia: "Extended" Antipsychotic Dosing

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Remington, Gary

Keywords: Clinical Research

$856,800

Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Schizophrenia (MAST) - Trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Daskalakis, Zafiris J; Foussias, George

Keywords: Cognition; Electroconvulsive Therapy (Ect); Magnetic Seizure Therapy (Mst); Neurophysiology; Neuroplasticity; Randomized Control Trial (Rct); Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia (Trs)

$898,876

Imaging synaptic density in schizophrenia

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mizrahi, Romina

Keywords: Biomarker; Molecular Imaging; Positron Emission Tomography; Schizophrenia; Synaptic Density; Synaptic Pruning

$531,675

Investigating behavioural, electrophysiological, and neurochemical facets of dorsal auditory stream impairment in persons with schizophrenia

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Christensen, Bruce K

Keywords: Auditory Processing; Dorsal-Ventral Processing Stream; Eeg; Erp; Evolution; Gaba; Mrs; Neurodevelopment; Schizophrenia

$321,303

Supporting the Transition from Specialized Services to Primary Care for at Risk Youth

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Planning Grants

Principal investigators: Mccay, Elizabeth A; Langley, John H

Keywords: At Risk Youth; First Episode Psychosis; Health Interventions; Health Services; Primary Health Care

$23,800

Cannabis use and paranoid ideation: validation of a neurocognitive model of delusions in schizophrenia

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant - PA: INMHA (bridge funding)

Principal investigators: Kiang, Michael

Keywords: Cannabis; Cognition; Delusions; Event-Related Brain Potentials; Language; Neuroimaging; Neurophysiology; Psychosis

$60,000

A group intervention to promote healthy self-concepts and to mitigate self-stigmatization & engulfment in first episode schizophrenia

Co-investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McCay, Elizabeth A.

Keywords: group intervention; first episode schizophrenia; stigma; self-concept; engulfment; self-efficacy

$18,173

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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