Candice Crocker

Related information

• Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program (https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/psychiatry/research/early-psychosis.html)
• Link to publications repository (https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/73457)

Education

B.Sc. Honours (University of King’s College)
MSc (McMaster University)
PhD (University of California, Irvine)
PDF (Dalhousie University)

Research interests

Dr. Candice E. Crocker studies the roles of recreational drugs and gender interactions in psychosis and first seizure using magnetic resonance imaging and clinical outcomes.  Additional projects examine barriers to service utilization, such as stigma, and service engagement as well as the use of social media for outreach in various patient populations.  Through her cross-appointment to diagnostic radiology, Dr. Crocker also does research into the impact of cannabis use on lung tissue by computed tomography and assists various radiology faculty with research project design and ethics.

Selected publications  

• Crocker, CE and Tibbo, PG (2017)  The interaction of Gender and Cannabis in Early Phase Psychosis.  Schizophrenia Research S0920-9964 (epub ahead of print)
• Crocker, CE; Purdon, SE; Hanstock, CC; Lakusta, B; Seres, P; Tibbo, PG (2017) Enduring changes in brain metabolites and executive functioning in abstinent cocaine users 178:435-442. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.04.034.
• Crocker, CE; Pohlmann-Eden, B; and Schmidt, MH. (2017). Role of Neuroimaging in First Seizure Diagnosis. Seizure. 49: 74-78.
• Lane, C; Crocker, C; Legg, K; Borden, M; and Pohlmann-Eden, B (2017) Anxiety and depression in Adult First Seizure Presentations.  Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences in press.
• Candice E. Crocker Jacob Cookey Philip G. Tibbo. (2017). Neuroimaging findings in Adolescent Cannabis use and Early Phase Psychosis (Chapter 36).  Handbook of Cannabis and related pathologies: Biology, Diagnosis, Treatment and Pharmacology. Ed Victor Preedy, Academic Press.