Dr. Nicholas Neufeld is a Scientist in the Slaight Centre for Youth in Transition and the Schizophrenia Division at CAMH and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
The core mission of Dr Neufeld’s research program is to investigate the neurobiology of severe mental illness across the lifespan and develop biomarkers, with a specific focus on schizophrenia and depression. His research philosophy centers on integrating multimodal neuroimaging measures within clinical research to develop a comprehensive and impactful understanding of the mechanisms underlying treatment trajectories.
Current studies that Dr Neufeld is involved in focus on neuroimaging biomarkers related to brain stimulation and clozapine for schizophrenia. Dr Neufeld is also involved in precision functional magnetic resonance imaging (pfMRI) studies on schizophrenia spectrum disorders and psychotic depression.
He has received grant funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, CAMH, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation, Labatt Family Network for Research on the Biology of Depression, and the University of Toronto. His work is also supported in part by an Academic Scholars Award from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and by the Innovation Fund of the Alternative Funding Plan for the Academic Health Sciences Centres of Ontario.
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