Position: Assistant Professor
Education: PhD
Tel: +1 5147616131 ext 2318
Email: massimilianoo.orri@mcgill.ca
Research interests:
My research focuses on the developmental origins of suicide. I am interested in understanding how early-life experiences (i.e., occurring around birth, during childhood, and during adolescence) may influence risk of suicide later in life. I investigate these questions using longitudinal population-based datasets and a variety of approaches from psychiatric epidemiology, behavioral genetics, and developmental psychopathology traditions.
Selected publications
Orri M, Gunnell D, Richard-Devantoy S, Bolanis D, Boruff J, Turecki G, Geoffroy M-C. In-utero and perinatal influences on suicide risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry. 2019;6(6):477-492
Orri M, Ahun MN, Naiker S, Besharati S, Richter LM. Childhood factors associated with suicidal ideation among South African youth: A 28-year longitudinal study of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. PLoS Medicine; 19(3): e1003946
Orri M, Vergunst F, Turecki G, Galera C, Latimer E, Bouchard S, … Côté SM. Long-term economic and social outcomes of youth suicide attempts. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2022;220(2) :79-85.
Orri M, Séguin JR, Castellanos-Ryan N, Tremblay RE, Côté SM, Turecki G, et al. A genetically informed study on the association of cannabis alcohol and tobacco smoking with suicide attempt. Molecular Psychiatry. 2021;26:5061–5070
Orri M, Galera C, Turecki G, Forte A, Renaud J, Boivin M, Tremblay RE, Côté SM, Geoffroy M-C. Association of childhood irritability and anxious/depressive mood profiles with adolescent suicidal ideation and attempt. JAMA Psychiatry. 2018;75(5):465-473