Kathryn Gill, PhD
Primary Axis:
Mental Illness and Addiction
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Clinical research is focused on evaluating the outcome of treatment for substance abuse, the development of new therapies, as well as determining the vulnerability to alcohol/drug dependence and gambling, among Aboriginal Peoples. Basic research includes behavioural and genetic studies of alcohol/drug related in animal models.Substance abuse, alcoholism, addiction, treatment outcome, quantitative trait loci, genetic mapping, biological psychiatry, cultural determinants, transcultural psychiatry
Keywords:
Substance abuse, alcoholism, addiction, treatment outcome, quantitative trait loci, genetic mapping, biological psychiatry, cultural determinants, transcultural psychiatry
Location:
Montreal General Hospital Publications:
Boyle AEL, Gill KJ. A verification of previously identified QTLs for cocaine-induced activation using a panel of B6.A chromosome substitution strains (CSS) and A/J x C57BL/6J F2 mice. Psychopharmacology, 207: 325-334, 2009.
Charney D, Zikos E, Gill KJ. Early recovery from alcohol dependence: Factors that promote or impede abstinence. J Substance Abuse Treatment, 38:42-50, 2010.
Gill K, Boyle AEL. Genetic factors influencing sensitivity to nicotine: A QTL analysis in AcB/BcA recombinant congenic mice. Genes Brain and Behavior 2005; 4: 401-411.
Charney D, Palacios-Boix J, Negrete JC, Dobkin PI, Gill, K. The effects of concurrent depression and anxiety on addiction treatment outcome. Psychiatric Services 2005; 56: 927-933.
Zikos E, Gill KJ, Charney D. Personality disorders among alcoholic outpatients: Prevalence and course in treatment. Can J Psychiatry, Feb;55(2):65-73, 2010.
Margolese HL, Tempier R, Negrete JC, Gill K. A twelve-month prospective follow-up study of patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and substance abuse: changes in psychiatric symptoms and substance abuse. Schizophrenia Research 2006 (in press).
