Erin Dickie
PhD
Dr. Erin Dickie completed her PhD in Neuroscience from McGill University, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at Baycrest and SickKids Hospitals in Toronto. She is a Project Scientist in the Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Laboratory at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Dickie studies brain connectivity with people with complex brain disorders (i.e. Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders) using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Her research focus is personalized connectomics, or the ability to map brain organization at the level of an individual.
Research Synopsis
Dr. Dickie’s research program that bridges the newest advances in human brain mapping with psychiatry research. She builds novel software tools to advance the way that researchers store and analyze neuroimaging data. She applies these novel techniques to the study of complex brain disorders (such as Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders) and to help guide novel brain stimulation therapies.
Recent Publications
Dickie EW, Ameis SH, Shahab S, Calarco N, Smith DE, Miranda D, Viviano JD, Voineskos AN (2018) Personalized intrinsic network topography mapping and functional connectivity deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 84(4):278-286
For a full list of published contributions see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/54540365/
Grants
2019-2021: NARSAD Young Investigator Fellowship Brain and Behaviour Foundation (research grant). $70,000 over two years. Enhancing rTMS Targeting Using Functional Connectivity - a novel intervention to improve Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia.