Breakfast Series

CAMH Engage’s ‘Breakfast Series’ features CAMH clinical fellows, researchers and physicians discussing topics aimed to drive social change and raise awareness of mental health and addiction among young professionals. 

2017 ‘CAMH Engage Breakfast Series’

Date: Friday Jun 9, 2017

Time: 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Location: Fuller Landau LLP 

Address: 151 Bloor St. W, 12th Floor, Toronto, ON  M5S 1S4

The first series of 2017 features Dr. Yuliya Knyahnytska, a clinical fellow and physician at CAMH:

She is also a member of the Temerty Centre, an integrated clinical and research unit specializing in therapeutic brain intervention for severe and/or treatment-resistant psychiatric illnesses. At the event, Dr. Knyahnytska will present her research, titled ‘Ghostbusting Cuckoo’s Nest’, discussing the topic of Anorexia – one of the deadliest psychiatric conditions. She’ll also speak to the incredible hope she’s uncovered through her latest research.

Why Dr. Knyahnytska research is so important:

• Levels of anxiety in average high school student are now comparable to those with schizophrenia who lived in the 50s;
• Depression is currently a leading cause of disability worldwide. 
• There is a national crisis with increased levels of cognitive decline in an aging population, and increased levels of anxiety and learning difficulties in kids as young as 5 years old
• There have been no new developments in treatment since the intervention of the two most well-known psychiatric drugs, Prozac and Zyprexa, in the last 40 years