Robert Pihl, McGill University

Research

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Health Clinical

Latest papers

Five-Year Outcomes of a School-Based Personality-Focused Prevention Program on Adolescent Substance Use Disorder: A Cluster Randomized Trial.
The American journal of psychiatry · 2025
Mesolimbic connectivity signatures of impulsivity and BMI in early adolescence.
Appetite · 2019
Neurobiological Correlates and Predictors of Two Distinct Personality Trait Pathways to Escalated Alcohol Use.
EBioMedicine · 2018 · senior author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Dopamine and Risk for Addictions
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$1,124,691
Effects of delaying age of onset of binge drinking on adolescent brain development: A proposal to add neuroimaing measures to the CO-Venture Trial.
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
$796,480
A cluster randomised trial investigating the effects of delaying onset of substance use on adolescent cognitive development.
CIHR · 2011 · Co-investigator
$1,109,426

All 8 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Five-Year Outcomes of a School-Based Personality-Focused Prevention Program on Adolescent Substance Use Disorder: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

Conrod P, Stewart SH, Seguin J, Pihl R, Masse B, Spinney S, Lynch S

The American journal of psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20240042 PMID: 39810554

02

Mesolimbic connectivity signatures of impulsivity and BMI in early adolescence.

Sharkey RJ, Bourque J, Larcher K, Mišić B, Zhang Y, Altınkaya A, Sadikot A, Conrod P, Evans AC, Garavan H, Leyton M, Séguin JR, Pihl R, Dagher A

Appetite2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.09.019 PMID: 30273626

03

Neurobiological Correlates and Predictors of Two Distinct Personality Trait Pathways to Escalated Alcohol Use.

Shakra MA, Leyton M, Moghnieh H, Pruessner J, Dagher A, Pihl R

EBioMedicine2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.11.025 PMID: 29292030

04

Effects of delaying binge drinking on adolescent brain development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study.

Bourque J, Baker TE, Dagher A, Evans AC, Garavan H, Leyton M, Séguin JR, Pihl R, Conrod PJ

BMC psychiatry2016

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-1148-3 PMID: 27955636

05

Behavioural interventions for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Mottillo S, Filion KB, Bélisle P, Joseph L, Gervais A, O'Loughlin J, Paradis G, Pihl R, Pilote L, Rinfret S, Tremblay M, Eisenberg MJ

European heart journal2009

DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn552 PMID: 19109354

Dopamine and Risk for Addictions

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Leyton, Marco; Seguin, Jean R

Keywords: Addiction Vulnerability; Brain Imaging; Dopamine; Impulsivity; Limbic System; Longitudinal Cohorts; Reward; Risk Trajectories

$1,124,691

Effects of delaying age of onset of binge drinking on adolescent brain development: A proposal to add neuroimaing measures to the CO-Venture Trial.

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Conrod, Patricia

Keywords: Addiction; Adolescents; Alcohol And Drug Misuse; Neurodevelopment; Neurotoxicity; Prevention

$796,480

A cluster randomised trial investigating the effects of delaying onset of substance use on adolescent cognitive development.

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Conrod, Patricia

Keywords: Addiction; Alcohol And Drug Abuse; Cognitive Development; Neuro-Toxic Effects Of Substances; Prevention

$1,109,426

Multi-System Neuroimaging Studies of Co-Morbid Addiction & Mental Illness

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Emerging Team Grant: Co-morbidity of brain disorders & other health problems-LOI

Principal investigators: Leyton, Marco; Gill, Kathryn J

Keywords: Co-Morbid Mental Illness; Depression; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Personality Disorders; Positron Emission Tomograph; Substance Dependence

$4,800

Le développement des difficultés d'adaptation sociale au cours de l'enfance : études longitudinales et expérimentales concertées

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Tremblay, Richard

Keywords: prévention; difficulté d'adaptation; développement de l'enfant; famille; pairs; école; étude longitudinale; étude expérimentale

$2,500,000

Institute of child development and health (ICDH)

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Health Institutes Design Grants

Principal investigators: Tremblay, Richard

$32,651

New frontiers of human consciousness - its social development and its alterations

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Health Institutes Design Grants

Principal investigators: Dongier, Maurice

$32,246

Etude longitudinale et expérimentale du développement des enfants de la naissance à l'adolescence

Co-investigatorSSHRC1994Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Tremblay, Richard

Keywords: Prévention; difficultés d'adaptation; développement de l'enfant; famille; pairs; école; étude longitudinale; étude expérimentale

$286,006

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

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Psychiatrie et addictologie
Department of Psychiatry
Psycho-éducation
Cardiology
Other

Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Marco Leyton

Department of Psychiatry

3 shared papers, latest 2019

Alain Dagher

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery

3 shared papers, latest 2019

Patricia Conrod

Psychiatrie et addictologie

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Josiane Bourque

Psychiatrie et addictologie

2 shared papers, latest 2019

Louise Pilote

Cardiology

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Jennifer O'Loughlin

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Lawrence Joseph

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Jean Seguin

Psycho-éducation

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Gilles Paradis

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Benoît Mâsse

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Abbas Sadikot

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2019

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