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Danilo Bzdok

ResearcherMcGill University

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Danilo Bzdok

Researcher

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
93 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 39 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

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Latest papers

Parent-of-origin effects in Alzheimer's liability dissociate neurocognitive and cardiovascular traits in at-risk individuals.
Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · senior author
The topology of adolescent mental health.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
Widespread use of invalid statistical tests in biomedical machine learning.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026

All 136 publications

Latest funding

Precision multi-modal brain imaging of high-level cognitive functional network development in autism via ultra-high field MRI
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$703,800
Examining Sex Biases in Alzheimer's Disease Risk and Heritability: a Multi-Omic Approach
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000
The development of memory and mentalizing networks in autism
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 5 grants and awards

136 publications.

Parent-of-origin effects in Alzheimer's liability dissociate neurocognitive and cardiovascular traits in at-risk individuals.

Savignac C, St-Onge F, Villeneuve S, Badhwar A, Gagliano Taliun SA, Farhan S, Geddes M, Iturria Medina Y, Poirier J, Spreng RN, Bzdok D, PREVENT-AD Research Group

Cell reports. Medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2026.102943 PMID: 42520805

The topology of adolescent mental health.

Jelen MB, Mousley A, Fakhar K, Trachtenberg E, He Y, Kohler R, Aggarwal S, Warrier V, Bzdok D, Yip SW, Astle DE

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.13.26357465 PMID: 42523456

Widespread use of invalid statistical tests in biomedical machine learning.

Zeng T, Li H, Zhang S, Tan YQ, Tian F, Orban C, An L, Che W, Cheng J, Chong JSX, Dehestani N, Dong Z, Li X, Li Z, Lim MJR, Lin Y, Ling Q, Ling Z, Low XZ, Mansour L S, Ng EKK, Nguyen TT, Ooi LQR, Pande S, Qian X, Ruan J, Wang Z, Xie Y, Zhang C, Zhang Y, Patil K, Parkes L, Dhamala E, Chopra S, Zalesky A, Holmes A, Eickhoff S, Zhou JH, Renaud O, Dosenbach N, Kording K, Bzdok D, Nichols TE, Yeo BTT

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.17.724301 PMID: 42239408

An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function.

Girn M, Doss MK, Roseman L, Preller KH, Palhano-Fontes F, Pasquini L, Barrett FS, Mallaroni P, Mason NL, Timmermann C, McCulloch DE, Fisher PM, Winston BS, Moujaes F, Muller F, Liechti ME, Vollenweider FX, Ramaekers JG, Kuypers K, Araujo DB, Sporns O, Siegel J, Dosenbach N, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL, Stamatakis EA, Bzdok D

Nature medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04287-9 PMID: 41942645

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.

Jiang H, Rodriguez-Cruces R, Xie K, Kebets V, Wang Y, Weber CF, He Y, Kember J, Sweatman H, Tabuenca ZG, Poline JB, Bzdok D, Hong SJ, Bernhardt B, Chai X

NeuroImage2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121775 PMID: 41651092

Threading the Needle: Practical Considerations for Merging Theory-Driven Computational Psychiatry With Data-Driven Analytics to Enhance Precision Health at Scale.

Cheng A, Konova AB, Powers A, Corlett P, Levy I, Gu X, Huys Q, Pushkarskaya H, Fineberg S, Hauser T, Chase HW, Bzdok D, Harpaz-Rotem I, Babuscio T, Nichols L, Zhao Y, Sharma M, Meeker D, Xu H, Rutledge RB, Pearlson GD, Pittenger C, Yip SW

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.02.009 PMID: 41763489

A pattern-learning algorithm associates copy number variations with brain structure and behavioural variables in an adolescent population cohort.

Kopal J, Huguet G, Marotta J, Aggarwal S, Osayande N, Kumar K, Saci Z, Jean-Louis M, Chai XJ, Ge T, Yeo BTT, Thompson PM, Bearden CE, Andreassen OA, Jacquemont S, Bzdok D

Nature biomedical engineering2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01454-0 PMID: 40681863

Cell type transcriptomic modules reveal shared molecular mechanisms in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Bhattacharya A, Fon EA, Dagher A, Iturria-Medina Y, Stratton JA, Savignac C, Stanley J, Hodgson L, Hammou BA, Bennett DA, Bzdok D

GigaScience2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giag059 PMID: 42166149

Carriers of LRRK2 pathogenic variants show a milder, anatomically distinct brain signature of Parkinson's disease.

Kopal J, Vo A, Tao Q, Simuni T, Chahine LM, Bzdok D, Dagher A

Communications medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-01330-7 PMID: 41484352

Latent brain subtypes of chronotype reveal unique behavioral and health profiles across population cohorts.

Zhou L, Saltoun K, Marotta J, Aggarwal S, Kopal J, Carrier J, Storch KF, Dunbar RIM, Bzdok D

Nature communications2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66784-8 PMID: 41429783

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Danilo Bzdok

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Parent-of-origin effects in Alzheimer's liability dissociate neurocognitive and cardiovascular traits in at-risk individuals.

The topology of adolescent mental health.

Widespread use of invalid statistical tests in biomedical machine learning.

An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function.

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.

Threading the Needle: Practical Considerations for Merging Theory-Driven Computational Psychiatry With Data-Driven Analytics to Enhance Precision Health at Scale.

A pattern-learning algorithm associates copy number variations with brain structure and behavioural variables in an adolescent population cohort.

Cell type transcriptomic modules reveal shared molecular mechanisms in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Carriers of LRRK2 pathogenic variants show a milder, anatomically distinct brain signature of Parkinson's disease.

Latent brain subtypes of chronotype reveal unique behavioral and health profiles across population&#xa0;cohorts.

Precision multi-modal brain imaging of high-level cognitive functional network development in autism via ultra-high field MRI

Examining Sex Biases in Alzheimer's Disease Risk and Heritability: a Multi-Omic Approach

The development of memory and mentalizing networks in autism

Application of a Bayesian strategy to ABCD: Identification of substance-use risk and COVID-19 effects on neurodevelopment

Developing and validating biomarkers for chronic pain

Frequent collaborators

Danilo Bzdok

Alain Dagher

Bratislav Misic

Yasser Iturria Medina

Laurent Mottron

Boris Bernhardt

Judes Poirier

Sylvia Villeneuve

Yue Li

Jean-Baptiste Poline

Guillaume Dumas

Sali Farhan

Amanpreet Badhwar

Amanpreet Badhwar

Kai-Florian Storch

Robert Zatorre

Julie Carrier

Yashar Zeighami

Catherine Paquet

Birgit Frauscher

Siva Reddy

Mahsa Dadar

Maiya Geddes

Sebastien Jacquemont

Birgit Frauscher

Ridha Joober

Aparna Suvrathan

Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant

Alain Ptito

Sebastien Jacquemont

Mallar Chakravarty

Ridha Joober

Latent brain subtypes of chronotype reveal unique behavioral and health profiles across population cohorts.