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Vincenzo De Luca

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ProfessorDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Toronto

Vincenzo De Luca

Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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65 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 23 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2011.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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300

Publications

13,421

Citations

123

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Research

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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
A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.
Frontiers in neurology · 2026

All 300 publications

Latest funding

Sex/Gender Differences of Suicide in Schizophrenia: A Multimodal Study
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$17,500
Long COVID-19 on the human brain
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$932,475
The effects of adjunctive transcranial direct current stimulation on treatment adherence in schizophrenia
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$367,200

All 11 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 300 publications.

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 Neurophysiology20264 citationsOpen Access

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

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis.

Gao D, Mann SGA, Chen B, Gou Y, Chen C, Qiao C, Garza-Garcia JJO, Shahsavarani M, Jiang X, Tran HC, Bao J, Richardson MB, Li J, Perley JO, Hwang J, Dong F, Dong C, Huang L, De Luca V, Wang Y, Qu Y, Lian J

Science (New York, N.Y.)20261 citations

DOI: 10.1126/science.aeb0357 PMID: 42461984

Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.

Song J, Kim J, Bukovsky D, Volpe G, Morra M, Kambari Y, Carmona-Torres E, Ueno F, Chow C, Kyte S, Agarwal SM, Hahn M, Dash S, Sockalingam S, Urbach D, De Luca V, Pollock B, Graff-Guerrero A, Gerretsen P

Frontiers in neurology2026Open Access

DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2026.1675116 PMID: 41948616

A novel method of measuring cortical thickness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a preliminary analysis of multi-echo fast spoiled gradient echo MRI.

Nader G, Ducharme M, Torres-Carmona E, Fischer C, Graff A, Gerretsen P, Simpson AIF, Strafella A, Desmond KL, De Luca V

Psychiatry research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116817 PMID: 41349229

The Immediate and Sustained Effects of Multi-Session Biparietal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Insight in Schizophrenia.

Song J, Kim J, Carmona-Torres E, Kambari Y, Ueno F, Koizumi T, Iwata Y, Amaev A, De Luca V, Blumberger DM, Remington G, Pollock B, Graff-Guerrero A, Gerretsen P

Schizophrenia bulletin2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbag022 PMID: 42032975

Lymphocyte subpopulations and EEG asymmetry.

Ducharme M, Zomorrodi R, Nader G, Fischer C, Gerretsen P, Graff A, Blumberger D, De Luca V

Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00702-025-03098-5 PMID: 41739220

Effects of Violence Trajectories on Treatment Outcomes in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

Nader G, Ducharme M, Gerretsen P, Fischer C, Graff A, De Luca V, Simpson AIF

The Journal of nervous and mental disease2026

DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001862 PMID: 41457337

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis

Di Gao, S. G. MANN, Binbin Chen, Yuanwei Gou, C Chen, Chong Qiao, Jorge Jonathan Oswaldo Garza-Garcia, Mohammadamin Shahsavarani, Xiaojing Jiang, Hannah Caroline Tran, Jingfei Bao, Mathew Bailey Richardson, Jianing Li, Jacob Owen Perley, Jaewook Hwang, Chang Dong, Chang Dong, Lei Huang, Vincenzo De Luca, Yang Qu, Yang Qu, Jiazhang Lian

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.16.718883

The role of global DNA methylation and epigenetic aging in the suicidality of patients with schizophrenia.

Nader G, Raymond R, Trad R, Ducharme M, Graff A, Gerretsen P, Fischer C, De Luca V

Schizophrenia research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2026.04.020 PMID: 42127842

Antipsychotic Polypharmacy and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Schizophrenia.

Nader G, Yung A, Liang Y, Ducharme M, Fischer C, Gerretsen P, Graff A, De Luca V

Pharmacopsychiatry2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1055/a-2668-0722 PMID: 41183542

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Vincenzo De Luca

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

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

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis.

Neural correlates of illness awareness in obesity: an exploratory pilot fMRI study.

A novel method of measuring cortical thickness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a preliminary analysis of multi-echo fast spoiled gradient echo MRI.

The Immediate and Sustained Effects of Multi-Session Biparietal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Insight in Schizophrenia.

Lymphocyte subpopulations and EEG asymmetry.

Effects of Violence Trajectories on Treatment Outcomes in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis

The role of global DNA methylation and epigenetic aging in the suicidality of patients with schizophrenia.

Antipsychotic Polypharmacy and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Schizophrenia.

Frequent collaborators

James Kennedy

Philip Gerretsen

Gary Remington

Clement Zai

Ariel Graff-Guerrero

John Strauss

Yang Qu

Albert Wong

Daniel Mueller

Corinne Fischer

Mahavir Agarwal

Arun Tiwari

Sri Agarwal

Peter Facchini

Aristotle Voineskos

Bernard Le Foll

John Vincent

Sofia Chavez

Nathan Kolla

Clifford Cassidy

Mehran Dastmalchi

Sylvain Houle

Bruce Pollock

Umesh Jain

Maggie Hahn

Naima Javaid

Bruce Fage

Bernadette Mdawar

Jiali Song

Nadine Reid

Anne Sonley

Napapon Sailasuta

Omair Husain