Allison H. MacNeil- Bachelor of Health Sciences
- PhD Student at McGill University
Allison H. MacNeil
- Bachelor of Health Sciences
- PhD Student at McGill University
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Introduction
Allison MacNeil is doctoral student in clinical psychology at McGill University. She works with Dr. Melanie Dirks of the Child and Adolescent Social Competency Lab and with Dr. Frank Elgar of the Social Inequalities in Child Health Research Group. Her research interests centre on the social determinants of adolescent mental health.
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Objective:
Youth frequently miss meals and experience hunger, yet no studies have assessed how these experiences relate to changes in daily emotional states. This daily diary study examined associations of missing breakfast, missing lunch, and hunger with daily positive and negative affect among young adolescents.
Methods:
A community sample of...
Food insecurity contributes to various stress-related health problems and previous research found that its association with mental illness is stronger in more affluent countries. We hypothesised that this pattern is a function of relative deprivation whereby the severity of individual food insecurity relative to others in a reference group determin...
The folate cycle is central to cellular 1-carbon (1C) metabolism, where folates are carriers of 1C units that are critical for synthesis of purines, thymidylate, and S-adenosylmethionine, the universal methyl donor that forms the cellular methyl pool. Although folates are well known to be important for early embryo and fetal development, their role...
