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‘Studying Leaky Brakes’

Research Projects

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Researchers investigating Tourette Syndrome & associated disorders are invited to submit recruitment advertisements.

 Submit a short description of your project along with contact information/links to:

Nancy Mathews,
Webmaster,
Manager, Family & Community Relations
CPRI,
600 Sanatorium Road, London, ON, N6H 3W7
nancy.mathews@ontario.ca

More in-depth letters of invitation or informed consent documents for participants/subjects may be submitted in .pdf format as well.  Contact Nancy to remove obsolete postings.

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Current Projects

The Experience of Stress in Children with Tourette’s Disorder:

An Interpretive Phenomenological Examination from the Child’s Perspective.

A doctoral project from Capella University School of Human Services, a school based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Participation occurs in a telephone interview.  For more details click here.

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Previous Projects

Publications on Tourette Syndrome & associated conditions authored by Brake Shop team members:

McKinlay, B.D. (2010). Oh What A Tangled (Neural) Web We Weave: A First-Person Account of Tourette Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Psychology Practice, 1(1), 3-11.

McKinlay, B.D., Stewart, S.L. & Cullion, C. (2006). The “Brake Shop”: Intervention for Co-Morbid Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Poster presented at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada International Symposium on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Edmonton, AB.

McKinlay, B.D., Stewart, S.L. & Cullion, C. (2006). The “Brake Shop”: Intervention for Co-Morbid Tourette Syndrome and Intermittent Explosive Disorder. Poster presented at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada International Symposium on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Edmonton, AB.

Cullion, C., McKinlay, B.D. & Stewart, S.L. (2006). Tourette Syndrome: Multi-Informant Ratings on Behaviour. Poster presented at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada International Symposium on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Edmonton, AB.

Stewart, S.L., McKinlay, B.D. & Cullion, C. (2006). Tourette Syndrome: The Impact Of Co-morbid Anxiety Symptoms. Poster presented at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada International Symposium on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Edmonton, AB.

DeVito, TJ; Drost, DJ; Pavlosky, W; Neufeld, RW; Rajakumar, N; McKinlay, BD; Williamson, PC; and R Nicolson (2005). Brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy in Tourette Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(12).

Nicolson R, Craven-Thuss B, Smith J, McKinlay BD, Castellanos FX. (2005). A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial of metoclopramide for the treatment of Tourette's disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(7), 640-6.

McKinlay, BD (2001). What makes a tic tick?? Motoric disinhibition, and the Incidental Associations model of tic formation. University of Waterloo.

McKinlay, BD (1998). You say lemon, I say lemonade: the impact of attitude when dealing with disorder.  University of Waterloo.

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