​Schizophrenia Program
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
250 College Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 1R8

(416) 535-8501 ext. 4319
jeff_daskalakis@camh.net

Dr. Daskalakis is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Stimulation Research and Treatment Program at CAMH.

Areas of Research

As an expert on the neurophysiology of severe psychiatric disorders, Dr. Daskalakis’s laboratory uses magnetic brain stimulation to study the role of cortical inhibition and plasticity as potential pathophysiological mechanisms in schizophrenia, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. Dr. Daskalakis also conducts treatment studies using repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (rTMS) for refractory symptoms in these disorders. He has been a NARSAD Lieber Young Investigator (2004, 2006) a NARSAD Independent Investigator (2008) and holds a CIHR Clinician Scientist award and an OMHF Research Award. Dr. Daskalakis has over 99 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals such as the Archives of General Psychiatry, Brain and the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Publications
View Dr. Daskalakis' publications on PubMed.