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Sanjeev Kumar

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Toronto

Sanjeev Kumar

Associate Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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66 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
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108

Publications

415

Citations

103

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Research

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Latest papers

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial
Alzheimer's and Dementia · 2026 · first author
Comparative Safety of Medications for Severe Agitation: Lessons Learned From Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026 · first author
Home-based cognitive remediation and transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance cognition in older adults with major depressive disorder or mild cognitive impairment: An open label study.
International psychogeriatrics · 2026

All 108 publications

Latest funding

Associations Between Patterns of Alcohol Use and Changes in Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$70,000
Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health clinical practice guideline on the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: Assessing and treating apathy and sleep disturbances
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$459,000
Proof-of-Concept Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Cognitive Enhancer, Memantine for Gambling Disorder
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$569,926

All 4 grants and awards

108 publications.

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial

Kumar S, Burhan AM, Colman S, Chu L, Davies S, Derkach P, Elmi S, Gerretsen P, Graff‐Guerrero A, Greenway K

Alzheimer's and Dementia2026First author

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71610

Comparative Safety of Medications for Severe Agitation: Lessons Learned From Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia.

Kumar S, Seitz D

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2026First author

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70271 PMID: 41474002

Home-based cognitive remediation and transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance cognition in older adults with major depressive disorder or mild cognitive impairment: An open label study.

Genadry F, Kalyani P, Elgallab BM, Brooks H, Blumberger DM, Kumar S, Mulsant BH, Bowie CR, Rajji TK

International psychogeriatrics2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.inpsyc.2025.100116 PMID: 40713415

Three-order interactions in the alpha band of default mode network EEGs based on O-information rate: insights from aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Azami H, Antonacci Y, Blumberger DM, Brooks H, Faes L, Fischer CE, Flint A, Herrmann N, Kumar S, Gallagher D, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Schoer N, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, PACt-M. D. Study Group

Alzheimer's research & therapy2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13195-026-02131-3 PMID: 42449404

segcsvdPVS: A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Tool for Quantification of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces (PVS) on T1-Weighted Images.

Gibson E, Ramirez J, Woods LA, Berberian S, Ottoy J, Scott CJM, Yhap V, Gao F, Coello RD, Valdes Hernandez M, Lang AE, Tartaglia CM, Kumar S, Binns MA, Bartha R, Symons S, Swartz RH, Masellis M, Singh N, MacIntosh BJ, Wardlaw JM, Black SE, ONDRI Investigators, ADNI, CAHHM Investigators, CAIN Investigators, colleagues from the Foundation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence, Lim ASP, Goubran M

Human brain mapping2026

DOI: 10.1002/hbm.70462 PMID: 41641899

Multiscale dispersion entropy of resting-state EEG in older adults with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and remitted major depressive disorder.

Azami H, McAndrews MP, Rostaghi M, Zomorrodi R, Brooks H, Blumberger DM, Fischer CE, Flint A, Herrmann N, Kumar S, Gallagher D, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, PACt-MD Study Group

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2026

DOI: 10.1177/13872877251410962 PMID: 41470021

The Relationship between Age and Cognitive Subtypes of Alzheimer Syndrome and Related Dementias.

Seixas-Lima B, Binns M, Black SE, Freedman M, Kumar S, Lahiri D, Roncero CT, Strother S, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Chertkow H

Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2026

DOI: 10.1159/000547124 PMID: 40587959

Neuropsychiatric Symptom Clusters and Their Association With Brain Structure in Alzheimer Disease.

Kapustin D, Rashidi-Ranjbar N, Wang W, Binns MA, McLaughlin PM, Abrahao A, Grimes D, Lang A, Marras C, Masellis M, Orange JB, Rajji TK, Roberts A, Saposnik G, Swartz RH, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Troyer A, Zinman L, Fischer CE, Kumar S

The Journal of clinical psychiatry2026Senior author

DOI: 10.4088/jcp.25m16192 PMID: 41871235

Examining the effects of alcohol use on verbal memory processes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

Cuperfain AB, Pishdadian S, Binns MA, Black SE, Chertkow H, Freedman M, Louis J, Ma C, Masellis M, Mclaughlin PM, Ramirez J, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Kumar S, CCNA COMPASS-ND Group, and on behalf of the ONDRI Group

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13872877261444995 PMID: 42033405

The effect of theta-gamma coupling on response to cognitive remediation combined with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults at high risk for dementia: a PACt-MD secondary analysis.

Brooks H, Mirjalili M, Ma C, Blumberger DM, Bowie CR, Fischer CE, Flint AJ, Herrmann N, Kumar S, Lanctôt K, Mah L, Mulsant B, Pollock BG, Schoer N, Zomorrodi R, Rajji TK

Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41386-026-02524-w PMID: 42595848

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Sanjeev Kumar

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Standardizing care for agitation in Alzheimer's disease, results from a randomized controlled trial of an integrated care pathway versus usual care – the StaN trial

Comparative Safety of Medications for Severe Agitation: Lessons Learned From Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia.

Home-based cognitive remediation and transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance cognition in older adults with major depressive disorder or mild cognitive impairment: An open label study.

Three-order interactions in the alpha band of default mode network EEGs based on O-information rate: insights from aging and Alzheimer's disease.

segcsvdPVS: A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Tool for Quantification of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces (PVS) on T1-Weighted Images.

Multiscale dispersion entropy of resting-state EEG in older adults with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and remitted major depressive disorder.

The Relationship between Age and Cognitive Subtypes of Alzheimer Syndrome and Related Dementias.

Neuropsychiatric Symptom Clusters and Their Association With Brain Structure in Alzheimer Disease.

Examining the effects of alcohol use on verbal memory processes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

The effect of theta-gamma coupling on response to cognitive remediation combined with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults at high risk for dementia: a PACt-MD secondary analysis.

Associations Between Patterns of Alcohol Use and Changes in Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health clinical practice guideline on the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: Assessing and treating apathy and sleep disturbances

Proof-of-Concept Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Cognitive Enhancer, Memantine for Gambling Disorder

Enhancing Frontal Lobes Plasticity and Function in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Frequent collaborators

Nathan Herrmann

Mario Masellis

Andrew Frank

Gustavo Saposnik

Michael Borrie

Dar Dowlatshahi

Zahinoor Ismail

Demetrios Sahlas

Elizabeth Finger

Robert Bartha

Connie Marras

Dallas Seitz

Ariel Graff-Guerrero

David Grimes

Wei Wang

John Turnbull

Alastair Flint

Clement Ma

Ekaterina Rogaeva

Damien Gallagher

Soham Rej

Philip Gerretsen

Malcolm Binns

Wendy Lou