Dr. Marco Battaglia

At CAMH, Dr. Marco Battaglia serves as the division's associate chief of child and adolescent psychiatry. At the University of Toronto, he has the title of Full Professor of Psychiatry. The main areas of genetic epidemiology and developmental psychopathology that Dr. Battaglia is interested in studying include anxiety and depressive disorders. He uses intermediate markers (ERPs, fMRI, DTI, respiratory measurements, and nocioception) that connect specific physiological functions between liability variables and behaviour to study individuals, twins, and families from general population and clinical samples. Early parental separation is a common adversity that affects behaviour and some neurophysiological functions that are common to preclinical animals and humans. This common adversity also has an impact on certain common behaviours.

Qualification

• MD