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Mina Mirjalili, Ph.D.

Mina Mirjalili, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

Schools
Medical School
Departments
Psychiatry
  • Biography

    Mina Mirjalili, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Interventional Psychiatry Division. Dr. Mirjalili specializes in precision psychiatry and personalized neuromodulation, integrating neurophysiology, neuroimaging, and artificial intelligence to understand individual differences in brain function and optimize targeted brain stimulation.

    She earned her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Toronto. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Sunnybrook Research Institute.

    A major focus of her research is cognition and brain health in older adults, using computational modeling to personalize non-invasive brain stimulation approaches such as tACS and tDCS, with the goal of slowing cognitive decline.

  • Research Interest
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Neuromodulation
    • Neurophysiology
    • Precision Psychiatry
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Featured
    Neuromodulation and cognition in late-life depression.
    Mirjalili M, Blumberger DM, Brunoni AR, Mulsant BH, Rajji TK, Neuropsychopharmacology 2026 Jan
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    Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation-Induced Electric Fields on Slowing Cognitive Decline in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Remitted Major Depressive Disorder: An Analysis of the PACt-MD Randomized Clinical Trial.
    Mirjalili M, Brooks H, Ma C, Lee A, Bikson M, Voineskos AN, Blumberger DM, Fischer CE, Flint AJ, Herrmann N, Kumar S, Lanctôt K, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, Biol Psychiatry 2025 Oct
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    Individualized frequency and montage tACS to engage theta-gamma coupling and enhance working memory in mild cognitive impairment.
    Mirjalili M, Palamarchuk IS, Brooks H, Zomorrodi R, Melichercik A, Wang W, Nestor SM, Blumberger DM, Datta A, Bowie C, Mdawar B, Hynynen K, Kumar S, Rajji TK, Front Psychiatry 2025 16 1565881
    Multiagent Large Language Model Framework for Psychotherapy Fidelity Assessment in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training: Cross-Sectional, Simulation-Based Evaluation Study.
    Kamaleddin MA, Mirjalili M, Barzegar R, Trung Le N, Cote Z, Winkler O, Burback L, Zhang Y, Zaiane OR, Monson C, Sharma D, Krishnan S, Greenshaw AJ, Zeifman R, Selby P, Bhat V, JMIR Med Educ 2026 Aug 12 e92964
    The effect of theta-gamma coupling on response to cognitive remediation combined with transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults at high risk for dementia: a PACt-MD secondary analysis.
    Brooks H, Mirjalili M, Ma C, Blumberger DM, Bowie CR, Fischer CE, Flint AJ, Herrmann N, Kumar S, Lanctôt K, Mah L, Mulsant B, Pollock BG, Schoer N, Zomorrodi R, Rajji TK, Neuropsychopharmacology 2026 Aug
    Identifying causal neural oscillations underlying working memory.
    Mirjalili M, Zomorrodi R, Daskalakis ZJ, Blumberger DM, Hill SL, Rajji TK, Cereb Cortex 2025 Feb 35 2
    Electroencephalogram and Event-Related Potential in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Recent Developments in Signal Processing and Deep Learning
    Azami H, Mirjalili M, Rajji T et al IEEE J. of Selected Areas in Sensors 2025
    Machine learning approaches for electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography analyses in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.
    Das S, Zomorrodi R, Mirjalili M, Kirkovski M, Blumberger DM, Rajji TK, Desarkar P, Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2023 Apr 123 110705
    Cognitive control, interference inhibition, and ordering of information during working memory in younger and older healthy adults.
    Mirjalili M, Zomorrodi R, Daskalakis ZJ, Hill SL, Kumar S, Blumberger DM, Fischer CE, Flint AJ, Herrmann N, Lanctôt KL, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, Geroscience 2022 Aug 44 4 2291-2303
    Assessing the Longitudinal Relationship between Theta-Gamma Coupling and Working Memory Performance in Older Adults.
    Brooks H, Mirjalili M, Wang W, Kumar S, Goodman MS, Zomorrodi R, Blumberger DM, Bowie CR, Daskalakis ZJ, Fischer CE, Flint AJ, Herrmann N, Lanctôt KL, Mah L, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Voineskos AN, Rajji TK, Cereb Cortex 2022 Apr 32 8 1653-1667