Sara Mitchell, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Improving care for complex brain disorders: insights from patient experiences in a Canadian brain medicine clinic.
BMJ open quality · 2026 · senior author
Cardiovascular contributions to dementia: Examining sex differences and female-specific factors.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
International Consensus Guidance for the Management of Glucocorticoid Related Complications in Neuromuscular Disease
Muscle and Nerve · 2025

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Wearable Sensing and Stimulation of Sleep Physiological Features Related to Resistance and Resilience to Dementia-Associated Brain Changes
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$824,672
Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative (GENFI) in Canada: Combined Investigation of Clinical, MRI, Genomic, and Epigenomic Biomarkers
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,128,375

All 2 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

Improving care for complex brain disorders: insights from patient experiences in a Canadian brain medicine clinic.

Saul K, Hanafi S, Voronov J, Dubey S, Skowronski K, Levitt S, Mitchell S

BMJ open quality2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2025-003848 PMID: 41887724

02

Cardiovascular contributions to dementia: Examining sex differences and female-specific factors.

Wood Alexander M, Paterson J, Arvanitakis Z, Black SE, Casaletto KB, Christakis MK, Einstein G, Galea LAM, Harwood L, Kirkham A, Mitchell S, Pa J, Perri L, Splinter TFL, Swardfager W, VandeBunte AM, Rabin JS

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association202519 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/alz.70610 PMID: 40851413

03

International Consensus Guidance for the Management of Glucocorticoid Related Complications in Neuromuscular Disease

Bacher C, Narayanaswami P, Bromberg M, Buttgereit F, Dodig D, Flanagan EP, Gottlieb C, Marshall JK, McCoy RG, Mitchell S

Muscle and Nerve202513 citations

DOI: 10.1002/mus.28328

04

Examining the association between sleep apnea and total hippocampal volumes in cognitive impairment.

Settimi M, Tchoudnovski D, Ntale I, Colelli DR, Costa YS, Mitchell S, Masellis M, Lam B, Lim A, Chung F, Ramirez J, Goubran M, Black SE, Boulos MI

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/alz.70183 PMID: 40275828

05

Response letter: Examining the association between sleep apnea and total hippocampal volumes in cognitive impairment.

Settimi M, Tchoudnovski D, Ntale I, Colelli DR, Costa YS, Mitchell S, Masellis M, Lam B, Lim A, Chung F, Ramirez J, Goubran M, Black SE, Boulos MI

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1002/alz.70602 PMID: 40810281

06

Investigating changes in cognition associated with the use of CPAP in cognitive impairment and dementia: A retrospective study.

Costa YS, Lim ASP, Thorpe KE, Colelli DR, Mitchell S, Masellis M, Lam B, Black SE, Boulos MI

Sleep medicine202330 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.11.037 PMID: 36516600

07

Rasch analyses of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology Self-Report in neurodegenerative and major depressive disorders

Vaccarino AL, Black SE, Evans SG, Frey BN, Javadi M, Kennedy SH, Lam B, Lam RW, Lasalandra B, Martens E

Frontiers in Psychiatry20235 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1154519

08

An International Approach to Enhancing a National Guideline on Driving and Dementia.

Rapoport MJ, Chee JN, Carr DB, Molnar F, Naglie G, Dow J, Marottoli R, Mitchell S, Tant M, Herrmann N, Lanctôt KL, Taylor JP, Donaghy PC, Classen S, O'Neill D

Current psychiatry reports201830 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11920-018-0879-x PMID: 29527643

Wearable Sensing and Stimulation of Sleep Physiological Features Related to Resistance and Resilience to Dementia-Associated Brain Changes

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Team Grant: CCNA Phase III: Research Teams

Principal investigators: Lim, Andrew S; Dang-Vu, Thien Thanh

Keywords: Aging; Biomarkers; Brain Stimulation; Clinical Trial; Cognitive Impairment; Cohort Study; Dementia; Electroencephalography; Sleep

$824,672

Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative (GENFI) in Canada: Combined Investigation of Clinical, MRI, Genomic, and Epigenomic Biomarkers

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Masellis, Mario; Finger, Elizabeth

Keywords: C9orf72; Dna Methylation; Epigenomics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Genomics; Grn; Mapt; Mri; Quantitative Traits; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

$1,128,375

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.

Frequent collaborators

Nathan Herrmann and Krista Lanctôt: 393 shared papers
Gary Naglie and I. Naglie: 329 shared papers
Sandra Black and Mario Masellis: 267 shared papers
Benicio Frey and Raymond Lam: 137 shared papers
Sandra Black and Richard Swartz: 136 shared papers
Sandra Black and Krista Lanctôt: 116 shared papers
Nathan Herrmann and Sandra Black: 105 shared papers
Mark Rapoport and Gary Naglie: 99 shared papers
Mark Rapoport and I. Naglie: 98 shared papers
Sandra Black and Maged Goubran: 84 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Richard Swartz: 82 shared papers
Sandra Black and Jennifer Rabin: 65 shared papers
Nathan Herrmann and Mark Rapoport: 58 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Krista Lanctôt: 50 shared papers
Jennifer Rabin and Maged Goubran: 46 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Jennifer Rabin: 39 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Mark Boulos: 38 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Maged Goubran: 36 shared papers
Douglas Munoz and Mario Masellis: 31 shared papers
Sandra Black and Mark Boulos: 28 shared papers
Sandra Black and Douglas Munoz: 25 shared papers
Douglas Munoz and Richard Swartz: 23 shared papers
Nathan Herrmann and Gary Naglie: 18 shared papers
Nathan Herrmann and I. Naglie: 18 shared papers
Mark Rapoport and Frank Molnar: 17 shared papers
Gary Naglie and Frank Molnar: 16 shared papers
Frank Molnar and I. Naglie: 16 shared papers
Nathan Herrmann and Kevin Thorpe: 13 shared papers
Kevin Thorpe and Richard Swartz: 13 shared papers
Kevin Thorpe and Krista Lanctôt: 12 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Raymond Lam: 11 shared papers
Sandra Black and Gillian Einstein: 10 shared papers
Gillian Einstein and Mario Masellis: 10 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Mark Boulos: 8 shared papers
Gillian Einstein and Liisa Galea: 7 shared papers
Liisa Galea and Jennifer Rabin: 7 shared papers
Andrew Lim and Sandra Black: 6 shared papers
Andrew Lim and Mario Masellis: 5 shared papers
Sandra Black and Sara Mitchell: 5 shared papers
Mark Boulos and Frances Chung: 5 shared papers
Benicio Frey and Sandra Black: 4 shared papers
Benicio Frey and Mario Masellis: 4 shared papers
Andrew Lim and Richard Swartz: 4 shared papers
Sandra Black and Raymond Lam: 4 shared papers
Mario Masellis and Sara Mitchell: 4 shared papers
Sandra Black and Liisa Galea: 3 shared papers
Mark Boulos and Sara Mitchell: 3 shared papers
Andrew Lim and Frances Chung: 2 shared papers
Andrew Lim and Sara Mitchell: 2 shared papers
Sandra Black and Frances Chung: 2 shared papers
Gillian Einstein and Amy Kirkham: 2 shared papers
Kevin Thorpe and John Marshall: 2 shared papers
Maged Goubran and Sara Mitchell: 2 shared papers
Frances Chung and Sara Mitchell: 2 shared papers
Benicio Frey and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Nathan Herrmann and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Mark Rapoport and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Sandra Black and Amy Kirkham: 1 shared paper
Gillian Einstein and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Kevin Thorpe and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Douglas Munoz and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Richard Swartz and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Liisa Galea and Amy Kirkham: 1 shared paper
Liisa Galea and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
John Marshall and Corey Bacher: 1 shared paper
John Marshall and Dubravka Dodig: 1 shared paper
John Marshall and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Krista Lanctôt and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Raymond Lam and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Gary Naglie and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Jennifer Rabin and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Amy Kirkham and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Frank Molnar and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Corey Bacher and Dubravka Dodig: 1 shared paper
Corey Bacher and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
Dubravka Dodig and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper
I. Naglie and Sara Mitchell: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Psychology
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Department of Medical Biophysics
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
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1 shared papers, latest 2018

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