Skip to main content

Main menu

  • About Us
    • Leadership
    • Our Team
    • Vision, Mission and Values
    • Health and Economic Impact
    • Research Impact Video
    • Strategic Plan
  • Our Research
    • Research Focus
      • Brain Health
      • Cancer
      • Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence
      • Heart Health
      • Healthy Aging and Mobility
      • Immune System
      • Injury and Rehabilitation
      • Lung Health
      • Mental Health and Substance Use
    • Research Centres and Programs
      • BC Centre on Substance Use
      • Centre for Aging SMART
      • Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation
      • Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation
      • Centre for Lung Health
      • Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
      • Immunity and Infection Research Centre
      • International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries
      • M. H. Mohseni Institute of Urologic Sciences
      • Ovarian Cancer Research Centre
      • Community Research Program
      • Emergency Medicine Research Program
      • Hematology Research Program
      • Skin Research Program
      • Other Research Focus Areas
    • News and Stories
    • Researcher Directory
    • Events and Workshops
  • Research Services
    • New to VCHRI
      • Working at VCHRI
      • Regulations and Training
      • Membership with VCHRI
      • Learning and Development
    • Starting Your Project
      • Research Facilitation
      • Awards and Funding
      • Grant Management
      • Operational Approval
      • CST Cerner
    • Developing Your Project
      • Clinical Trials Administration
      • Clinical Research Unit
      • Research Privacy
      • Financial Policies and Procedures
    • Additional Support
      • Indigenous Health Research Unit
      • VCH-VCHRI AI Hub
      • Communications and Media Relations
      • Study Recruitment Support
      • Innovation and Industry Partnership
    • Internal Awards
    • Clinical Research
    • Indigenous Research
  • Participate in Research
    • Reasons to Participate
    • Participant Stories
    • Find a Study
    • Recruitment Support

User menu

  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Our Research
  3. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

Assistant Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Director, Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies Laboratory
Research Focus
Brain MRI Scans SchizophreniaMood Disorders
Degrees / Designations

MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAPA

Contact Info
ninet.med.ubc.ca/
ninet.lab@ubc.ca
NinetLab

Biography

Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and director of the Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies (NINET) Laboratory and Schizophrenia Program. He is also a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.

As a clinician-scientist, he has a strong interest in conducting translational research that bridges the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders with the clinical applications of this knowledge. His clinical practice is actively focused in those most severely afflicted by such conditions, and his research interests are directed at finding novel therapeutic interventions within NINET that can help mitigate the suffering of those with severe and refractory forms of psychosis and depression. His laboratory actively investigates on all forms of NINET and uses a varied number of neurophysiological tools to research on biomarkers. The NINET Laboratory is the only centre in Canada to host both simultaneous TMS-fMRI and tDCS-fMRI capability.
 

Research Studies

Schizophrenia, Brain and Nerves, Mental Health and Behaviour

Comparing non-invasive neurostimulation therapies for schizophrenia

Brain and Nerves, Mental Health and Behaviour

Treating depression with accelerated brain stimulation

Brain and Nerves, Mental Health and Behaviour

Neurocardiac predictors of treatment response to rTMS in depression

Brain, Mental Health, Depression

PORT Trial

Brain and Nerves, Mental Health and Behaviour

Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease

Mental Health and Behaviour, Men's and Women's Health

Exploring the Effects of Yoga, Meditation, and tDCS Brain Stimulation

Depression, Depression

Canadian rTMS Treatment and Biomarker Network in Depression Trial (CARTBIND)

Depression, MRI Scans, Depression

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

News and Awards

Right-side low-frequency rTMS improved major depressive symptoms

Jan 25, 2025

VCHRI SPARKS 2024 recipients

Jun 3, 2024

Freeing Parkinson’s patients from depressive symptoms

Apr 14, 2023

The mood-memory connection in treatment-resistant depression

Jul 8, 2022

New guide for patients with treatment-resistant depression

Feb 2, 2022
Exploring alternatives for treatment resistant depression

Exploring alternatives for treatment resistant depression

Mar 5, 2020

New treatment for bipolar depression could have fewer side effects

Aug 6, 2019

A day in the lab: NINET Lab

Apr 23, 2019

Ask an expert: Feeling stressed this holiday season? Mindfulness could help.

Dec 1, 2018

Investigator Awards 2017 Recipients

Mar 5, 2017

Study explores vastly reducing time needed for treatment-resistant depression therapy

Oct 2, 2015

Publications

  • The American journal of psychiatry -

    Predictive Value of Acute Neuroplastic Response to rTMS in Treatment Outcome in Depression: A Concurrent TMS-fMRI Trial.

    Ge R, Humaira A, Gregory E, Alamian G, MacMillan EL, Barlow L, Todd R, Nestor S, Frangou S, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Human brain mapping -

    Individualized functional targeting for rTMS: A powerful idea whose time has come?

    Vila-Rodriguez F, Frangou S
  • Journal of affective disorders -

    Magnetic seizure therapy is associated with functional and structural brain changes in MDD: Therapeutic versus side effect correlates.

    Ge R, Gregory E, Wang J, Ainsworth N, Jian W, Yang C, Wang G, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Journal of affective disorders -

    Predictors of cognitive impairment in treatment-resistant depression.

    Gregory E, Torres IJ, Ge R, Blumberger DM, Downar JH, Daskalakis ZJ, Lam RW, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Brain stimulation -

    Cardiovascular differences between sham and active iTBS related to treatment response in MDD.

    Iseger TA, Arns M, Downar J, Blumberger DM, Daskalakis ZJ, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Brain stimulation -

    Impact of medications, mood state, and electrode placement on ECT outcomes in treatment-refractory psychosis.

    Ainsworth NJ, Avina-Galindo AM, White RF, Zhan D, Gregory EC, Honer WG, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Brain topography -

    Combined Yoga and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Increase Functional Connectivity and Synchronization in the Frontal Areas.

    Sefat O, Salehinejad MA, Danilewitz M, Shalbaf R, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • Brain stimulation -

    A patient-oriented analysis of pain side effect: A step to improve the patient's experience during rTMS?

    Humaira A, Gao S, Gregory E, Ridgway L, Blumberger DM, Downar J, Daskalakis ZJ, Ainsworth NJ, Wu L, Butterfield M, Vila-Rodriguez F
  • The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences -

    Psychiatric, Motor, and Autonomic Effects of Bifrontal ECT in Depressed Parkinson's Disease Patients.

    Rodin I, Sung JH, Appel-Cresswell S, Chauhan H, Smith K, Vila-Rodriguez F, Ainsworth NJ
Working in the lab

Are you a researcher?

Update or create your researcher profile on our online directory.

Update Profile    Create New Profile

Get updates!

Join our newsletter mailing list to stay up to date on features and releases.

Subscribe

Quick Links

  • News and Stories
  • Careers
  • Events
  • Media Enquiries

Follow Us

  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • YouTube

© 2025 VCHRI. All rights reserved.

  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy