The Leo and Rachel Hendlisz Awards are given to the best research articles of the year published by students and postdoctoral fellows of the Douglas Research Centre.
1st place : Lauren Reynolds (team of Cecilia Flores)
for her article “Amphetamine disrupts dopamine axon growth in adolescence by a sex-specific mechanism in mice.” Nature Communications, 2023.
2nd place : Rixing Lin (team Gustavo Turecki)
for his article “SNORD90 induces glutamatergic signaling following treatment with monoaminergic antidepressants.” eLIFE, 2023.
3rd place : Stephanie Tullo (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
for her article “Neuroanatomical and cognitive biomarkers of alpha-synuclein propagation in a mouse model of synucleinopathy prior to onset of motor symptoms.” Journal of Neurochemistry, 2023.
- 1st place : Cherie Strikwerda-Brown (team of Sylvia Villeneuve)
for her article “Association of elevated amyloid and tau positron emission tomography signal with near-term development of Alzheimer disease symptoms in older adults without cognitive impairment”, JAMA Neurology, 2022. - 2nd place : Johnson Ying (team of Mark Brandon)
for his article “Disruption of the grid cell network in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease”, Nature Communications, 2022. - 3rd place : Vincent Paquin (team of Marie-Claude Geoffroy)
for his article “Longitudinal trajectories of food insecurity in childhood and their associations with mental health and functioning in adolescence”, JAMA Network Open, 2021.
- 1st place : Angélica Torres-Berrío (team of Cecilia Flores)
for her article “miR-218 in Adolescence Predicts and Mediates Vulnerability to Stress“, Biological Psychiatry, 2021. - 2nd place : Aurélie Bussy (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
for her article “Hippocampal subfield volumes across the healthy lifespan and the effects of MR sequence on estimates“, NeuroImage, 2021. - 3rd place : Lani Cupo (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
for her article “Timing, Distribution, and Relationship Between Nonpsychotic and Subthreshold Psychotic Symptoms Prior to Emergence of a First Episode of Psychosis“, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2021.
- 1st place : Raoul Belzeaux (team of Gustavo Turecki)
- 2nd place : Saashi Bedford (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
- 3rd place : Kathryn Vaillancourt (team of Gustavo Turecki)
- 1st place : Scott Bell (team of Carl Ernst)
for his article”Mutations in ACTL6B Cause Neurodevelopmental Deficits and Epilepsy and Lead to Loss of Dendrites in Human Neurons“, Am. J. Hum. Genet., 2019. - 2nd place : Gerald Jordan (team of Srividya Iyer et Ashok Malla)
for his article “Disruption of the grid cell network in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease”, Nature Communications, 2022. - 3rd place : Amanda Larosa (team of Tak Pan Wong)
for her article “Negative Memory Engrams in the Hippocampus Enhance the Susceptibility to Chronic Social Defeat Stress“, J. Neurosci., 2019.
1st place : Laura Kervezee (teams Diane Boivin et de Nicolas Cermakian)
for her article “Simulated night shift work induces circadian misalignment of the human peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptome“, PNAS, 2018.- 2nd place : Joseph Therriault (team of Pedro Rosa-Neto)
for his article “Anosognosia predicts default mode network hypometabolism and clinical progression to dementia“, Neurology, 2018. - 3rd place : Nikhil Bhagwat (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
for his article “Modeling and prediction of clinical symptom trajectories in Alzheimer’s disease using longitudinal data“, PLOS Computational Biology, 2018.
1st place : Arnaud Tanti (team of Naguib Mechawar)
for his article “Association of a history of child abuse with impaired myelination in the anterior cingulate cortex: convergent epigenetic, transcriptional, and morphological evidence“, American Journal of Psychiatry, 2017.- 2nd place : Guido Antonio Powell (team of Eric Latimer)
for his article “Changes in quality of life from a homelessness intervention: true change, response shift, or random variation“, Quality of Life Research, 2017. - 3rd place : Lauren Reynolds (team of Cecilia Flores)
for her article “DCC receptors drive prefrontal cortex maturation by determining dopamine axon targeting in adolescence“, Biological Psychiatry, 2017.
1st place : Richard Boyce (team of Sylvain Williams et Antoine Adamantidis)
for his article “Causal evidence for the role of REM sleep theta rhythm in contextual memory consolidation“, Science, 2016.- 2nd place : Elsa Isingrini (team of Bruno Giros)
for her article “Resilience to chronic stress is mediated by noradrenergic regulation of dopamine neurons“, Nature Neuroscience, 2016. - 3rd place : Angélica Torres-Berrío (team of Cecilia Flores)
for her article “DCC confers susceptibility to depression-like behaviors in humans and mice and is regulated by miR-218“, Biological Psychiatry, 2016.