Dr. Erin Dickie is a staff scientist in the Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Laboratory and lead of Open Science and Education at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an assistant professor in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
She completed her PhD in neuroscience from McGill University, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at Baycrest and SickKids Hospitals in Toronto. Dr. Dickie studies brain connectivity with people with complex brain disorders (i.e. Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders) using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Her research focus is personalized connectomics, or the ability to map brain organization at the level of an individual. Dr. Dickie received a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award to investigate how personalized mapping may be a critical first step for the design of targets for neurostimulation therapy.
Areas of Research
Dr. Dickie’s research program bridges the newest advances in human brain mapping with psychiatry research. With co-PIs Dr. Colin Hawco and Dr. Stephanie Ameis, she leads the CIHR-funded project “Identification of Functional Connectivity Biomarkers of Social Cognition Across Schizophrenia and Autism: A Longitudinal and Dimensional Approach (SPIN-R).” Additionally, she is co-lead for Imaging and Biospecimen projects within the ground-breaking Toronto Adolescent and Youth Cohort (TAY) Cohort Study, supported by the CAMH Discovery Fund. She is also co-lead of Data Management and Analytics for the Ontario Brain Institute Integrated Discovery Program (IDP) CALM (Cohort Network for Adolescents and Youth with Mental Health Multimorbidity: A Master Observational Trial).
Her research builds novel software tools to advance how researchers store and analyze neuroimaging data. Dr. Dickie founded the “ciftify” open software framework for surface-based analyses of MR data, collaborating with the Human Connectome Project. She applies these novel techniques to understand trajectories of brain development and how they relate to complex brain disorders (such as Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders).
Publications
View Dr. Dickie's publications on myNCBI.