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Peter Giacobbe

Peter Giacobbe

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Neuroscience

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48
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11948
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6115
National Ranking
353

Overview

Peter Giacobbe is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with significant emphasis on neurology and cognitive neuroscience. Their research intersects with clinical psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pharmacology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding brain function and mental health disorders.

The scientist's recent work includes several notable publications focusing on psychiatric and neurological treatments. Key papers include:

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2023 Update on Clinical Guidelines for Management of Major Depressive Disorder in Adults, 2024, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Probabilistic Mapping of Deep Brain Stimulation: Insights from 15 Years of Therapy, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound capsulotomy for refractory obsessive compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder: clinical and imaging results from two phase I trials, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Use of Machine Learning for Predicting Escitalopram Treatment Outcome From Electroencephalography Recordings in Adult Patients With Depression, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment, 2021, Depression and Anxiety

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Nir Lipsman
  • Clement Hamani
  • Jennifer S. Rabin
  • Sean M. Nestor
  • Benjamin Davidson

Peter Giacobbe has published regularly in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Their research topics broadly cover neurological disorders and treatments, with particular focus areas in:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Overall, Peter Giacobbe's scientific work emphasizes the clinical and therapeutic aspects of brain disorders, using advanced neuroimaging and neuromodulation methods, alongside machine learning approaches for treatment prediction in depression and related conditions.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of theta burst versus high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with depression (THREE-D): a randomised non-inferiority trial

    Daniel M Blumberger;Daniel M Blumberger;Fidel Vila-Rodriguez;Kevin E Thorpe;Kevin E Thorpe;Kfir Feffer

  • Subcallosal cingulate gyrus deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.

    Andres M. Lozano;Helen S. Mayberg;Helen S. Mayberg;Peter Giacobbe;Clement Hamani

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder

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  • Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: follow-up after 3 to 6 years.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Peter Giacobbe;Sakina J. Rizvi;Franca M. Placenza

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) Clinical guidelines for the management of major depressive disorder in adults. IV. Neurostimulation therapies.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Roumen Milev;Peter Giacobbe;Rajamannar Ramasubbu

  • A multicenter pilot study of subcallosal cingulate area deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression

    Andres M Lozano;Peter Giacobbe;Clement Hamani;Sakina J Rizvi

  • Anhedonia and Reward-Circuit Connectivity Distinguish Nonresponders from Responders to Dorsomedial Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depression

    Jonathan Downar;Joseph Geraci;Tim V. Salomons;Katharine Dunlop

  • A Phase II Study of Fornix Deep Brain Stimulation in Mild Alzheimer's Disease.

    Andres M. Lozano;Lisa Fosdick;M. Mallar Chakravarty;Jeannie Marie Leoutsakos

  • Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory anorexia nervosa: a phase 1 pilot trial

    Nir Lipsman;D Blake Woodside;Peter Giacobbe;Clement Hamani

  • rTMS of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex for major depression: safety, tolerability, effectiveness, and outcome predictors for 10 Hz versus intermittent theta-burst stimulation.

    Nathan Bakker;Saba Shahab;Peter Giacobbe;Daniel M. Blumberger

  • Resting-State Cortico-Thalamic-Striatal Connectivity Predicts Response to Dorsomedial Prefrontal rTMS in Major Depressive Disorder

    Tim V Salomons;Katharine Dunlop;Sidney H Kennedy;Alastair Flint

  • Concordance Between BeamF3 and MRI-neuronavigated Target Sites for Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.

    Arsalan Mir-Moghtadaei;Ruth Caballero;Ruth Caballero;Peter Fried;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox

  • MicroRNAs 146a/b-5 and 425-3p and 24-3p are markers of antidepressant response and regulate MAPK/Wnt-system genes.

    Juan Pablo Lopez;Laura M. Fiori;Cristiana Cruceanu;Rixing Lin

  • Deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate gyrus for depression: anatomical location of active contacts in clinical responders and a suggested guideline for targeting.

    Clement Hamani;Helen Mayberg;Brian Snyder;Peter Giacobbe

  • Deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate for treatment-refractory anorexia nervosa: 1 year follow-up of an open-label trial.

    Nir Lipsman;Nir Lipsman;Eileen Lam;Matthew Volpini;Kalam Sutandar

  • Discovering biomarkers for antidepressant response: protocol from the Canadian biomarker integration network in depression (CAN-BIND) and clinical characteristics of the first patient cohort

    Raymond W. Lam;Roumen Milev;Susan Rotzinger;Susan Rotzinger;Ana C. Andreazza;Ana C. Andreazza

  • Trajectories of Response to Dorsolateral Prefrontal rTMS in Major Depression: A THREE-D Study

    Tyler S Kaster;Jonathan Downar;Fidel Vila-Rodriguez;Kevin E Thorpe

  • Reductions in Cortico-Striatal Hyperconnectivity Accompany Successful Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Dorsomedial Prefrontal rTMS

    Katharine Dunlop;Blake Woodside;Marion Olmsted;Patricia Colton

  • Number of pulses or number of sessions? An open-label study of trajectories of improvement for once-vs. twice-daily dorsomedial prefrontal rTMS in major depression.

    Laura Schulze;Kfir Feffer;Christopher Lozano;Peter Giacobbe

  • Effectiveness and acceptability of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subgenual cingulate cortex for treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis.

    Marcelo T. Berlim;Alexander McGirr;Frederique Van den Eynde;Marcelo P.A. Fleck

  • Treatment resistant depression as a failure of brain homeostatic mechanisms: implications for deep brain stimulation.

    Peter Giacobbe;Helen S. Mayberg;Andres M. Lozano

Frequent Co-Authors

Zafiris J. Daskalakis
Zafiris J. Daskalakis University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Jonathan Downar
Jonathan Downar Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Daniel M. Blumberger
Daniel M. Blumberger Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Clement Hamani
Clement Hamani University of Toronto
Roumen Milev
Roumen Milev Queen's University
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Faranak Farzan
Faranak Farzan Simon Fraser University
Mary Pat McAndrews
Mary Pat McAndrews University Health Network
Alastair J. Flint
Alastair J. Flint University of Toronto

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