This year’s winners of the annual Dr. Francis Wayne Quan Memorial Prize for the best papers published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (JPN) were announced April 2, 2024. This year, two papers published in 2023 share equally in the prize.
- He K, Hua Q, Li Q, Zhang Y, Yao X, Yang Y, Xu W, Sun J, Wang L, Wang A, Ji G-J, Wang K. Abnormal interhemispheric functional cooperation in schizophrenia follows the neurotransmitter profiles. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2023;48:E452-60.
The editors found that this research provides novel insight into cellular- and molecular-level mechanisms associated with brain circuitry changes in mental illness. - Henning D, Lüno M, Jiang C, Meyer-Lotz G, Hoeschen C, Frodl T. Gut–brain axis volatile organic compounds derived from breath distinguish between schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2023;48:E117-25.
This research found differences in volatile organic compounds from the breath in patients with major depression, schizophrenia or healthy controls, suggesting that components of the breath may provide useful, functional markers for mental illness.
Dr. Francis Wayne Quan Memorial Prize is cosponsored by the Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada and JPN. The prize was launched in January 2022 to honour the contributions of psychiatrist and former editor Dr. Francis Wayne Quan to the foundation and the journal.
Dr. Quan, who died 9 August 2021 after a brief battle with kidney cancer, was one of the founders and the first managing editor of the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa, the predecessor of JPN, from 1976 to 1983. He was also a director of the Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada from 2016 to his death. These experiences were among Dr. Quan’s many contributions during his busy career as an eminent psychiatrist in Ottawa.
The Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada congratulates this year’s prize winners. For more information about the winning papers, see the announcement in JPN.
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