David Wright
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Congratulations CIHR Fall 2023 Project Grant recipients
Congratulations to BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2023 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $11 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.
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The importance of diet with antipsychotic medication: Q&A with new investigator Dr. David Wright
For people suffering from severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs can help reduce a number of psychotic symptoms, such as paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. Increasingly, these medications are being used off-label to treat bipolar disorder, anxiety or severe irritability, even amongst children and adolescents. Unfortunately, these drugs can have harmful metabolic side effects…
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