Rudolf Uher
Rudolf Uher is a Canadian psychiatrist and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at
Dalhousie University in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia,
Canada. His research focuses on the causes, prevention, and treatment of severe
mental illnesses such as
psychosis,
major depression, and
bipolar disorder. He was a
Canada Research Chair in Early Intervention in Psychiatry at Dalhousie University in 2012. He received the Max Hamilton Memorial Prize from the
International College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2014 and the Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research from the
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in 2016. In May 2020, he was chosen as one of two Nova Scotia experts, along with Emily Marshall, to receive grant funding from the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research and
Research Nova Scotia as part of a Rapid Research Funding Opportunity. Uher's funding will support his research on the mental health effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic, which specifically focuses on parents with preexisting mental illnesses. In June 2020, a study he led reported that individuals with depression who did not respond to the commonly used
serotonergic antidepressant escitalopram did respond to treatment with
aripiprazole.
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