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Wendy Lou

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ProfessorBiostatistics DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Wendy Lou

Professor

Biostatistics Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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95 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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170

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Latest papers

Evaluating the association between caffeine exposure and sleep duration and trouble sleeping in adults.
Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026
Symptom trajectories and treatment outcomes following a five-day accelerated intermittent-theta burst stimulation protocol for treatment-resistant depression: A naturalistic study in a real-world setting.
Psychiatry research · 2026
Functional electrical stimulation for major depressive disorder: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.
PloS one · 2026

All 170 publications

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Evaluating the association between caffeine exposure and sleep duration and trouble sleeping in adults.

Nguyen PV, Lin Q, Meshkat S, Joseph JT, Janssen R, Lou W, Bhat V

Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society2026

DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpag064 PMID: 42444712

Symptom trajectories and treatment outcomes following a five-day accelerated intermittent-theta burst stimulation protocol for treatment-resistant depression: A naturalistic study in a real-world setting.

Janssen-Aguilar R, Joseph J, Al-Shamali HF, Menzies P, Dunlop K, Jha M, Lin Q, Lou W, Adamsahib F, Mulsant BH, Tang VM, Voineskos D, Blumberger DM, Kaster TS, Bhat V

Psychiatry research2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2026.117264 PMID: 42263622

Functional electrical stimulation for major depressive disorder: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Gholamali Nezhad F, Yu H, Demchenko I, Iwasa SN, DiNunzio S, Ghosh R, Zariffa J, Masani K, Lou W, Mulsant BH, Naguib HE, Popovic MR, Bhat V

PloS one2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0357381 PMID: 42721198

Leveraging prompt-driven generative AI for systematic reviews in digital psychiatry: A stage-matched comparative proof-of-concept for healthcare researchers and clinicians.

Parkington K, Joseph JT, Musleh K, Rouleau-Tang M, Persaud A, Rueda A, Teferra BG, Al-Shamali HF, Mao W, Nezhad FG, Burback L, Zhang Y, Jetly R, Vermetten E, Monson C, Krishnan S, Zeifman RJ, Greenshaw A, Lou W, Bhat V

PLOS digital health2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0001666 PMID: 42721190

Identification, validation, and prediction of longitudinal recovery phenotypes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: analysis of prospective cohorts and a randomised controlled trial.

Pedro KM, Alvi MA, Lozano C, Karthikeyan V, Bak AB, Davies BM, Harrop JS, Badhiwala JH, Wilson JR, Lou W, Lu Z, Thorpe KE, Fehlings MG

EClinicalMedicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.104162 PMID: 42668450

Effectiveness and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Al-Shamali HF, Shocker K, Thakkar J, Lin Q, Janssen-Aguilar R, Lou W, Granek J, Rhind S, Dunkley BT, Vallee I, Crouzat M, Jetly R, Bhat V

Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences2026

DOI: 10.1111/pcn.70077 PMID: 42169234

Correction: Vapors, gases, dusts and fumes at work and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/bronchitis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Arrandale VH, Zhang Y, Lou W, Tricco AC, Lau A, Orchanian-Cheff A, Henneberger PK, Tarlo SM

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12995-026-00519-3 PMID: 42509559

Greater Depressive Symptom Severity is Associated with Increased Odds of Analgesic Use.

Meshkat S, Lin Q, Golshan A, Tassone VK, Janssen-Aguilar R, Lou W, Bhat V

Pharmacopsychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1055/a-2892-1148 PMID: 42413549

Vapors, gases, dusts and fumes at work and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/bronchitis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Arrandale VH, Zhang Y, Lou W, Tricco AC, Lau A, Orchanian-Cheff A, Henneberger PK, Tarlo SM

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12995-026-00515-7 PMID: 42343436

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

Ge E, Yu C, Lavigne E, Villeneuve PJ, Liu X, Grubic N, Lou W, Brook J, Lu Z, Li YL, To T

The European respiratory journal2026

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02272-2025 PMID: 41819538

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Wendy Lou

Latest papers

Evaluating the association between caffeine exposure and sleep duration and trouble sleeping in adults.

Symptom trajectories and treatment outcomes following a five-day accelerated intermittent-theta burst stimulation protocol for treatment-resistant depression: A naturalistic study in a real-world setting.

Functional electrical stimulation for major depressive disorder: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Leveraging prompt-driven generative AI for systematic reviews in digital psychiatry: A stage-matched comparative proof-of-concept for healthcare researchers and clinicians.

Identification, validation, and prediction of longitudinal recovery phenotypes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: analysis of prospective cohorts and a randomised controlled trial.

Effectiveness and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Correction: Vapors, gases, dusts and fumes at work and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/bronchitis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Greater Depressive Symptom Severity is Associated with Increased Odds of Analgesic Use.

Vapors, gases, dusts and fumes at work and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/bronchitis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

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