Dr. Lindsay Oliver is a staff scientist with the Brain Health Imaging Centre and the Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Lab at CAMH. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Western University and MSc in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Oliver joined CAMH in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Lab. She became a project scientist in 2022 and a staff scientist in 2023, with the Brain Health Imaging Centre and Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Lab. Dr. Oliver has been awarded a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Canada Research Excellence Fellowship and a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant.
Areas of Research
Dr. Oliver’s research examines neural and behavioural correlates of social cognition and functioning in psychiatric, neurological and non-clinical populations. Her goal is to identify and target biomarkers of social cognitive deficits to inform and evaluate treatment options for those affected by these debilitating symptoms. Much of Dr. Oliver's work has focused on functional brain imaging (fMRI), cognitive and clinical data across people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals, including dimensional and multivariate analyses of brain-behaviour relationships. She is also involved in research examining transdiagnostic multimodal brain metrics and cognitive abilities across schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders, functional connectivity in psychotic depression, as well as treatment response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and individually targeted brain stimulation for social cognitive impairments in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Publications
View Dr. Oliver’s publications on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.