Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

Assistant Professor

VCH Clinical Title(s)

Consultant Psychiatrist

Research Focus

Brain Mood Disorders

Degrees / Designations

MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAPA

Contact Info

https://ninet.med.ubc.ca/

fidel.vilarodriguez@ubc.ca

Research Studies

Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Depression, Mood Disorders

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

Healthy male volunteers in their 50’s needed for research study on depression

News and Awards

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

Lancet (London, England) -
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression - Authors' reply.
Blumberger DM, Vila-Rodriguez F, Thorpe KE, Daskalakis ZJ, Downar J
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry -
Structural network integrity of the central executive network is associated with the therapeutic effect of rTMS in treatment resistant depression.
Ge R, Downar J, Blumberger DM, Daskalakis ZJ, Lam RW, Vila-Rodriguez F
Frontiers in pharmacology -
Non-linear Entropy Analysis in EEG to Predict Treatment Response to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Depression.
Shalbaf R, Brenner C, Pang C, Blumberger DM, Downar J, Daskalakis ZJ, Tham J, Lam RW, Farzan F, Vila-Rodriguez F
The journal of ECT -
Accelerated Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder: A Report of 3 Cases.
Wang J, Vila-Rodriguez F, Jiang W, Ren YP, Wang CM, Ma X
Molecular psychiatry -
Large-scale mapping of cortical alterations in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: Convergence with idiopathic psychosis and effects of deletion size.
Sun D, Ching CRK, Lin A, Forsyth JK, Kushan L, Vajdi A, Jalbrzikowski M, Hansen L, Villalon-Reina JE, Qu X, Jonas RK, van Amelsvoort T, Bakker G, Kates WR, Antshel KM, Fremont W, Campbell LE, McCabe KL, Daly E, Gudbrandsen M, Murphy CM, Murphy D, Craig M, Vorstman J, Fiksinski A, Koops S, Ruparel K, Roalf DR, Gur RE, Schmitt JE, Simon TJ, Goodrich-Hunsaker NJ, Durdle CA, Bassett AS, Chow EWC, Butcher NJ, Vila-Rodriguez F, Doherty J, Cunningham A, van den Bree MBM, Linden DEJ, Moss H, Owen MJ, Murphy KC, McDonald-McGinn DM, Emanuel B, van Erp TGM, Turner JA, Thompson PM, Bearden CE

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