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Lena Palaniyappan

ResearcherUniversité de Montréal

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Lena Palaniyappan

Researcher

Health Sciences

Université de Montréal

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.
132 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 70 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2026.

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Research

Cannabis Cognition Longitudinal Neuroimaging Psychosis Psychotherapy Trial Virtual Reality

Latest papers

“I felt like that was a safe place to go”: a qualitative study of help-seeking experiences for early psychosis in primary care
Journal of Mental Health · 2026
Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.
Neuropsychologia · 2026 · senior author
Renaming vs. resolving: A reply to Baylé on discordance and disorganization.
Schizophrenia research · 2026 · first author

All 132 publications

Latest funding

Expanding Research on High-Potency Cannabis Use in Psychosis: Longitudinal Neurobiological Investigations and Evaluation of a Novel Virtual Reality Intervention for Cannabis Use Disorder
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$2,350,000

All 1 grants and awards

132 publications.

“I felt like that was a safe place to go”: a qualitative study of help-seeking experiences for early psychosis in primary care

Rodrigues R, Madakadze C, Edwards J, Booth R, Archie S, Palaniyappan L, Chan S, Nagy K, Anderson KK, co-investigators OBOTP

Journal of Mental Health20262 citations

DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2025.2595617

Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.

El Mouslih C, Mackinley M, Dzialoszynski P, Lodhi R, Richard J, Titone D, Palaniyappan L

Neuropsychologia2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109587 PMID: 42772404

Renaming vs. resolving: A reply to Baylé on discordance and disorganization.

Palaniyappan L, Sreeraj VS, Venkatasubramanian G, Voppel A, Sangiorgi A

Schizophrenia research2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2026.08.025 PMID: 42691597

Neurometabolites and Antipsychotic Response in Psychosis: A Mega-Analysis.

King B, Bojesen KB, Crisp C, de Bartolomeis A, de Haan L, de la Fuente-Sandoval C, Dempster K, Drake RJ, Dazzan P, Ebdrup BH, Fan L, Graff-Guerrero A, Glenthøj BY, Honda S, Howes O, Huang LC, Kahn R, MacCabe J, Matrone M, Merritt K, McIlwain M, McGuire P, Nakajima S, Lawrie SM, Palaniyappan L, Reyes-Madrigal F, Russell B, Sawa A, Shergill S, Singh KD, Sommer IE, Stone JM, Sun J, Tsugawa S, Ueno F, van der Pluijm M, van de Giessen E, Walters JTR, Yang K, Yang YK, Kempton MJ, Egerton A

JAMA psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.1674 PMID: 42340705

Writing when writhing with psychosis: a computational linguistic autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky's diary.

Palaniyappan L, Melshin G, Delgaram-Nejad O, Elleuch D, Voppel A

Medical humanities2026First author

DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2026-014121 PMID: 42629181

Social functioning and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia: A Bayesian meta-analysis.

Soldovieri CBC, Elleuch D, Ahrens J, Bambini V, Delgaram-Nejad O, Garani R, Harrison NA, Kircher T, Kuperberg G, Rossell SL, Sommer IE, Bosia M, Palaniyappan L

Schizophrenia research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2026.07.028 PMID: 42566855

Resting magnetoencephalography alterations in severe mental illnesses: A systematic review.

Gonzales-Aste F, Ahrens J, Boutet D, Wei HT, Baillet S, Palaniyappan L

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106867 PMID: 42471042

Double DANTE-PRESS: Development of a 1H-MRS Multifrequency-Selective Sequence for Simultaneous In Vivo Quantification of Glutathione and Glutamate at 7 Tesla.

Kanagasabai K, Oran O, Palaniyappan L, Théberge J

NMR in biomedicine2026

DOI: 10.1002/nbm.70385 PMID: 42669963

Early intervention with clozapine: Is there a neurobiological critical period for treatment-resistant schizophrenia?

Krishnadas R, Leong IL, Fraczek J, Fernandez-Egea E, Palaniyappan L

Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/02698811261488465 PMID: 42788527

DISCOURSE in Psychosis: introducing an international consortium for research on thought, language and communication.

Palaniyappan L, Alonso-Sanchez MF, Bambini V, Bora E, Hinzen W, Kuperberg G, MacWhinney B, Mota N, Olah J, Rossell S, Sommer IE, Stein F, Tang SX, Voppel A

World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2026First author

DOI: 10.1002/wps.70107 PMID: 42742608

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Cannabis Dear Professor Palaniyappan, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "“I felt like that was a safe place to go”: a qualitative study of help-seeking experiences for early psychosis in primary care" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Expanding Research on High-Potency Cannabis Use in Psychosis: Longitudinal Neurobiological Investigations and Evaluation of a Novel Virtual Reality Intervention for Cannabis Use Disorder" (2026), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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“I felt like that was a safe place to go”: a qualitative study of help-seeking experiences for early psychosis in primary care

Communication Context Matters: Elicitation Task Shapes the Clinical Utility of Speech Markers in Psychosis.

Renaming vs. resolving: A reply to Bayl&#xe9; on discordance and disorganization.

Neurometabolites and Antipsychotic Response in Psychosis: A Mega-Analysis.

Writing when writhing with psychosis: a computational linguistic autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky's diary.

Social functioning and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia: A Bayesian meta-analysis.

Resting magnetoencephalography alterations in severe mental illnesses: A systematic review.

Double DANTE-PRESS: Development of a 1H-MRS Multifrequency-Selective Sequence for Simultaneous In&#xa0;Vivo Quantification of Glutathione and Glutamate at 7&#x2009;Tesla.

Early intervention with clozapine: Is there a neurobiological critical period for treatment-resistant schizophrenia?

DISCOURSE in Psychosis: introducing an international consortium for research on thought, language and communication.

Expanding Research on High-Potency Cannabis Use in Psychosis: Longitudinal Neurobiological Investigations and Evaluation of a Novel Virtual Reality Intervention for Cannabis Use Disorder

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Renaming vs. resolving: A reply to Baylé on discordance and disorganization.

Double DANTE-PRESS: Development of a 1H-MRS Multifrequency-Selective Sequence for Simultaneous In Vivo Quantification of Glutathione and Glutamate at 7 Tesla.