Faculty and Supervisors - Peter J. Bieling

St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton

Faculty and Supervisors

Margaret C. McKinnon, Ph.D., C. Psych (Supervised Practice)

Psychologist, Clinical Neuropsychology Service

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

West 5th Campus

100 West 5th Street
Hamilton, ON L8N 3K7

Tel: 905-522-1155, ext. 35438

E-Mail: mmckinno@stjoes.ca

Dr. McKinnon received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2003 and subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and a Research Scientist in the Mood Disorders Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Dr. McKinnon is also an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior and graduate faculty in the McMaster Institute for Neuroscience Study and Discovery (MiNDS program). She maintains a supervised practice in Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. McKinnon’s research focuses on the interplay between cognitive and emotional processes at the neural and behavioral level. She is particularly interested in how emotion and cognition relate to autobiographical memory and social cognition, two areas of function commonly affected by neurological illness or insult. Most of her research has been conducted in special populations, including patients with frontotemporal dementia, medial temporal lobe amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with normally aging adults. With her collaborators, she is interested in identifying differences in autobiographical memory for highly emotional events (e.g., an airplane crash) and in social cognitive (e.g., theory of mind and empathy) performance between people with and without mood disorders and other psychiatric illnesses. An additional research focus concerns the neural mechanisms underlying these differences. Dr. McKinnon currently holds grant funding from the following sources: CIHR (Co-PI), NARSAD (PI), OMHF (PI), and NIMH (sub-contract)

Dr. McKinnon is a member of the Clinical Neuropsychology Service at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. She is particularly interested in working with patients with complex behavioral presentations and patients with co-morbid mood and trauma-related disorders. She has taught undergraduate courses in Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Neurology, Neuropsychology and Cognition and led a graduate seminar, The Nervous System. Her laboratory currently houses four graduate students and numerous undergraduate learners.

Publications

King, M., MacDougall, A., Ferris, S., Levine, B., MacQueen, G., & McKinnon, M.C. (in press). A review of factors that moderate autobiographical memory performance in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

McKinnon, M.C., Cusi, A., & MacQueen, G.M. (in press). Impaired theory of mind performance in patients with recurrent bipolar disorder: moderating effect of cognitive load. Psychiatry Research.

Cusi, A., MacQueen, G.M., & McKinnon, M.C. (in press). Altered self report of empathic responding in patients with recurrent bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research.

Taylor, V., McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald, K., Jaswal, G., & MacQueen, G.M. (in press). Adults with mood disorders have an increased risk profile for cardiovascular disease within the first two years of follow up. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

McKinnon, M.C., Yucel, K., Nazarov, A., & MacQueen, G. (2009). A meta-analysis examining clinical predictors of hippocampal volume in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 4: 41-54.

Spreng*, R. N., McKinnon*, M. C., Mar, R. A., & Levine, B. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91: 62-71. * Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

Yucel, K., McKinnon, M.C., Chahal, R., Taylor, V.H., Macdonald, K., Joffe, R., & MacQueen, G.M (2009). Increased subgenual prefrontal cortex size in remitted patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 173, 71-76.

McKinnon, M.C., Nica, E.I, Sengdy, P., Kovacevic, N., Moscovitch, M., Freedman, M., Miller, B.L., Black, S.E. & Levine, B. 2008). Autobiographical memory in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and its relation to patterns of brain atrophy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20: 1839-1853.

Taylor, V., Macdonald, K., McKinnon, M.C., Joffe, R. & MacQueen, G.M. (2008). Rates of obesity in a never treated population with mood disorders: baseline incidence and change over four years of follow up. Journal of Affective Disorders, 109: 127-131.

Yucel, K., McKinnon, M.C., Chahal, R., Taylor, V.H., Macdonald, K., Joffe, R., & MacQueen, G.M (2008). Anterior cingulate volume in first-episode patients with major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 3157-3163.

Yucel, K., Taylor, V. H., McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald, K., Alda, M., Young, L. T., & MacQueen, G. M. (2008). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder and short-term lithium treatment. Neuropsychophamacology, 33, 361-367.

Yucel, K., McKinnon, M.C., Taylor, V.H., Macdonald, K., Alda, M., Young, L.T. & MacQueen, G.M. (2007). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder after long-term lithium treatment: a longitudinal MRI study. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 195: 357-367.

Elgamal*, S., McKinnon*, M.C., Ramakrishnan, K., Joffe, R., & MacQueen, G. (2007). Successful computer-based cognitive remediation therapy in patients with unipolar depression: A proof of principle study. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1229-1238.
* Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manusript.

McKinnon, M.C., Svoboda, E., & Levine, B. (2007). Frontal lobe contributions to autobiographical memory. In B. L. Miller & J. Cummings (Eds). The Human Frontal Lobes (2nd Ed., pp 227-248). New York: Guilford Press.

McKinnon, M.C., Levine, B. & Moscovitch, M. (2007). Domain-general contributions to social reasoning. The perspective from cognitive neuroscience. In M. J. Roberts (Ed.). Integrating the Mind, (pp 153-177). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

McKinnon, M.C., & Moscovitch, M. (2007) Domain-general contributions to social reasoning: Theory of mind and deontic reasoning re-explored. Cognition, 102, 179-218.

McKinnon, M.C., Miller, B., Black, S., Moscovitch, M., & Levine, B. (2006). Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of limbic-neocortical interactions in remote memory. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), 2421-2429.

Svoboda, E., McKinnon, M.C., & Levine, B. (2006). The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 44(12). 2189-2208.

McKinnon, M.C., Feinstein, A., Mayberg, H., Kanagasabai, S., Skocic, J, Sengdy, P., & Levine, B. (2005). Autobiographical memory for a life-threatening traumatic event and September 11th in survivors of an airline accident. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 36.

Rosenbaum, R.S., McKinnon, M.C., Levine, B. & Moscovitch, M. (2004). Visual imagery deficits, impaired strategic retrieval or memory loss: Disentangling the nature of an amnesic person’s autobiographical memory deficit. Neuropsychologia, 42(12), 1619-1635.

Schellenberg, E.G., Adachi, M., Purdy, K.T., & McKinnon, M.C. (2002). Expectancy in melody: Tests of adults and children. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(4), 511-537.