Lena Palaniyappan

Dr. Lena Palaniyappan works with patients and families experiencing early stages of severe mental illnesses such as psychosis. He directs the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the Douglas Institute, McGill University and holds the Monique H. Bourgeois Chair in Developmental Disorders at the McGill University. His research group, Neuroimaging and Mental Illnesses in Youth (NIMY) has its base at two Canadian medical schools: one at the Robarts Research Institute at the Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario and the other at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec.

Following Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, he completed his medical studies at Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India followed by a Masters and then PhD in Translational Neuroimaging at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The major emphasis of his research is to modify the pathways that lead to poor long-term outcomes in individuals with serious mental disorders that often start in adolescence.