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Tel: 647-601-4551.
Completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University and his predoctoral internship at the Aaron T. Beck Center for Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychological Clinical Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Affiliate Scientist at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences.
Research Practice Areas:
- Cognitive treatments for psychotic disorders and understanding the mechanisms for how these treatments improve people’s lives
Areas of Research:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), an evidence-based therapy that focuses on how thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are interconnected and contribute to a person’s quality of life
- Cognitive Remediation, a treatment to improve neurocognitive abilities such as attention, memory, and problem-solving with the ultimate goal of improving a person’s ability to engage in activities in everyday life
Research Collaborators:
- Dr. Amer Burhan, MBChB, MSc., FRCPC - Ontario Shores
- Dr. Jane Mizevich, PhD, C.Psych - Ontario Shores
- Sophie Wong, OT Reg. (Ont.) - Ontario Shores
Recent Publications:
Best, M. W., Law, H., Pyle, M., & Morrison, A. P. (2020). Relationships between psychiatric symptoms, functioning and personal recovery in psychosis. Schizophrenia research, 223, 112-118.
Best, M. W., Gale, D., Tran, T., Haque, M. K., & Bowie, C. R. (2019). Brief executive function training for individuals with severe mental illness: effects on EEG synchronization and executive functioning. Schizophrenia research, 203, 32-40.
Best, M. W., Milanovic, M., Iftene, F., & Bowie, C. R. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of executive functioning training compared with perceptual training for schizophrenia spectrum disorders: effects on neurophysiology, neurocognition, and functioning. American Journal of Psychiatry, 176(4), 297-306.
Best, M. W., Grossman, M., Milanovic, M., Renaud, S., & Bowie, C. R. (2018). Be outspoken and overcome stigmatizing thoughts (BOOST): a group treatment for internalized stigma in first-episode psychosis. Psychosis, 10(3), 187-197.
Best, M. W., & Bowie, C. R. (2017). A review of cognitive remediation approaches for schizophrenia: from top-down to bottom-up, brain training to psychotherapy. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 17(7), 713-723.