Dr. Brigitte Zrenner is an associate scientist with the Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention and the Mood and Anxiety Ambulatory Services at CAMH. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Zrenner studied medicine and did her residency in psychiatry at the University of Tuebingen, where she received her medical licensure in 2010, her doctorate in 2011 and completed her specialist training in 2016. She then joined the neurology department as a clinician and a post-doc in 2016 where she was responsible for the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) outpatient clinic and proof-of-concept studies applying electroencephalogram (EEG)-triggered TMS in patients with major depression.
She joined CAMH to pursue her interest in clinical trials for novel brain interventions using EEG and TMS.
Areas of Research
Dr. Zrenner's research interests include mechanism of pathophysiology in major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and translational development of individualized brain stimulation protocols.
Current research is to identify neurophysiological changes in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to tailor brain state dependent protocols.
Publications
View Dr. Zrenner’s publications on PubMed.