Dr. Trevor Hurwitz

Clinical Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry

Member, Institute of Mental Health, UBC

Director, BC Neuropsychiatry Program

Chief-of-Service, West-1 at UBC Hospital

Email: t.hurwitz@ubc.ca

Publications

View a complete list of peer-reviewed publications on Research Gate

Books

  1. Batt BA., Doane S., Huff J., Karst A., Hurwitz T., I’m the Bob and Cathy’s Kid: Emotions – Love and Fury, Hardcover – Friesen Press; 1 edition, June 17 2018
  2. Casebook of Neuropsychiatry, Hurwitz T.A. and Warren T. Lee WT (eds) American Psychiatric Association Publishing 2013

Book Chapters

  1. Hurwitz T.A. Psychogenic Unresponsiveness in Disorders of Consciousness Neurologic Clinic 29; 995-1006, 2011.
  2. Calne S., Hurwitz T. Dystonia, What Now? Canadian Office of Allergan Inc. 4th Revised Edition 1995.
  3. Calne, S., Hurwitz T. Adjustment, Adaptation and Accommodation: Psychosocial Approaches to Living with Parkinson’s Disease. National Parkinson Foundation Inc. USA. 1996.
  4. Calne S., Hurwitz T., McConnel B., Shaw C., Poulin K. Purves B., Wright W., Taking charge: A guide to living with parkinsonism. Published by the Parkinson Foundation of Canada, 1994.
  5. Parks R.W., Becker R.E., Dodrill K.L., Bennett B.A., Crockett D.J., Hurwitz T.A., McGeer P.L. McGeer E.G. Positron Emission Tomography and Neuropsychological studies in dementia in Becker R.E. and Giacobini E. (eds.) Alzheimer Disease: Current Research in Early Diagnosis. New York, Taylor and Francis pp 315-327, 1990.
  6. Hurwitz T.A., Li D.K.B., ECT and morphological changes in the brain: a MRI study .VIII World Congress of Psychiatry, Athens, 12-19 October 1989, International Congress Series, Volume 900, Psychiatry Today, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990.
  7. Hurwitz, T.A., Approach to patients with psychogenic neurological disturbance, in Kelly,W.N. (ed) Textbook of Internal Medicine. J.B. Lippincott Co. 1989.
  8. Hurwitz,T.A., Sabin,T.D., Cerebrovascular disease in Noble J. (ed) Textbook of General Medicine and Primary Care. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1987.
  9. Hurwitz, T. A., Amitriptyline, diazepam and ethanol – A triple drug interaction, Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics Bulletin University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, 8, No. l, May, l978.
  10. Beiser, M., Hurwitz,T.A., Work, leisure and retirement in Beiser, M. et al (eds) Today’s Priorities in Mental Health, Knowing and Doing. Proceedings from Vancouver Congress World Federation for Mental Health, 1978, Miami, Florida.

Journal Articles

  1. Hurwitz TA, Honey CR, Sepehry AA. Ablation Surgeries for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Reported Case Series. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2022;100(5-6):300-313.
  2. Coenen VA, Sajonz BEA, Hurwitz TA, Böck M, Hosp JA, Reinacher PC, Urbach H, Blazhenets G, Meyer PT, Reisert M. A Neuroanatomy of Positive Affect Display – Subcortical Fiber Pathways Relevant for Initiation and Modulation of Smiling and Laughing. Front Behav Neurosci. 2022 Mar 30;16:817554.
  3. Avecillas-Chasin, J.M., Hurwitz, T.A., Bogod, N.M., et al., Tractography-Guided Anterior Capsulotomy for Major Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Targeting the Emotion Network. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown), 2021. 20(4): 406-412.
  4. Coenen VA, Hurwitz TA, Schlaepfer TE. Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden: The Unrecognized Role of the Psychiatrist and Neuroanatomist in Modern Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2020;98(1):65-69.
  5. Hurwitz TA., Honey CR., McLeod KR., Poologaindran A., Kuan AJ. Hypoactivity in the Paraterminal Gyrus Following Bilateral Anterior Capsulotomy. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 65;46-55, 2020.
  6. Avecillas-Chasin JM, Hurwitz TA, Bogod NM, Honey CR: An Analysis of Clinical Outcome and Tractography following Bilateral Anterior Capsulotomy for Depression. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2019 Dec 20;:1–12.
  7. Trevor A. Hurwitz Euthanasia in Mental Illness: A Four Part Series Part IV: Medical Ethics – Autonomy vs Beneficence and Non-Malfeasance JEMH · Open Volume 2018, 10, 1-7.
  8. Trevor A. Hurwitz Euthanasia in Mental Illness: A Four Part Series Part III: Capacity to Consent JEMH · Open Volume 2018, 10, 1-9.
  9. Trevor A. Hurwitz Euthanasia in Mental Illness: A Four Part Series Part II: Sadness and Suicidality: Why Mentally Ill Patients Request Euthanasia JEMH · Open Volume 2018, 10, 1-9.
  10. Trevor A. Hurwitz Euthanasia in Mental Illness: A Four Part Series Part I: The Case of EF JEMH · Open Volume 2018, 10, 1-10.
  11. Tham JCW, Howard A, Ilcewicz-Klimek M, Hurwitz TA. Bifrontal Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patient With Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression. J ECT. 2017 Aug 1doi10.1097/YCT.0000000000000443.
  12. Sirrs S, van Karnebeek CD, Peng X, Shyr C, Tarailo-Graovac M, Mandal R, Testa D, Dubin D, Carbonetti G, Glynn SE, Sayson B, Robinson WP, Han B, Wishart D, Ross CJ, Wasserman WW, Hurwitz TA, Sinclair G, Kaczocha M. Orphanet J. Defects in fatty acid amide hydrolase 2 in a male with neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2015; 10: 38. Published online 2015 Mar 28. doi: 10.1186/s13023-015-0248-3.
  13. Coenen VA, Panksepp J, Hurwitz TA, Urbach H, Mädler B. Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2012 Spring;24(2):223-36. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11080180.
  14. Hurwitz TA, Honey CR, Allen J, Gosselin C, Hewko R, Martzke J, Bogod N, Taylor P. Bilateral anterior capsulotomy for intractable depression. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2012 Spring;24(2):176-82. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11080189.
  15. Howard A, Honey C, Hurwitz TA, Ilcewicz-Klimek M, Woo, C, Lam RW. Deep Brain Stimulation, Interruption and Suicidality. J. Neurosurgery: 116:467-468; 2012.
  16. Barton, Jason J S MD, PhD, FRCPC; Maguire, John MB, Bch, GAO, FRCPC; Mezei, Michelle MD, FRCPC; Hurwitz Md, FRCPC; Briemberg, Hanna R MD, FRCPC. Mitochondrial Pseudomyasthenia. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. Volume 30(3), September 2010. Pp 248-251.
  17. Schoene-Bake JC, Parpaley Y, Weber B, Panksepp J, Hurwitz TA, Coenen VA. Tractographic analysis of historical lesion surgery for depression. Neuropsychopharmacology 35 (12):2553-63, 2010.
  18. Coenen VA, Honey CR, Hurwitz TA, Rahman AA, McMaster J, Burgel U, Madler B. Medial Forebrain Bundle Stimulation as a Pathophysiological mechanism for Hypomania in Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease. Neurosurgery 64:1106-1115, 2009.
  19. Mackenzie IR, Foti D, Woulfe J, Hurwitz TA. Atypical frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive, TDP-43-negative neuronal inclusions. Brain, 2008; 131:1282-93.
  20. Mandat TS, Hurwitz TA, Honey CR, Hypomania as an adverse effect of subthalamic nucleus stimulation. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 148:895-898, 2006.
  21. Hurwitz T.A., Prichard J.W. Conversion Disorder and FMRI. Neurology 67:1914-1915; 2006.
  22. Hurwitz T.A., Mandat T., Forster B., Honey C. Tract Identification by Novel MRI Signal Changes following Stereotactic Anterior Capsulotomy. Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery 2006; 84:228-235.
  23. Hurwitz T.A. Somatization and Conversion Disorder. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 49: 172-178. 2004.
  24. Hurwitz T.A. Neuropsychiatry: Grasping the Body-Mind and Mind-Body Problems. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 49: 155-156, 2004.
  25. Hurwitz T.A., Commentary: Evolutionary Aspects of Depression, Stress and Subordination. South African Psychiatry Review 5:16: 2002.
  26. Hurwitz T.A., Neuropsychiatry in the 21st Century. Canadian Psychiatric Association Bulletin. Vol. 34, No. 1 February 2002.
  27. Hurwitz T.A. Calne SM. Depression, Anxiety and Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease. B.C. Medical Journal 2001; 43: 214-218.
  28. Crockett D., Hurwitz TA., Hart SD., MacDonald J., Welch S. Prevalence of WAIS-R Prototypal Groups in Neuropsychiatric Participants. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 1996 11: 637-650.
  29. Mithani, H., Hurwitz TA., Paroxetine-induced angioedema and tongue swelling. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Vol. 17, October 1996.
  30. Kopala, L., Good K., Martzke J., Hurwitz T. “Olfactory deficits in Schizophrenia Are Not a Function of Task Complexity”. Schizophrenia Research 17 (1995) 195-199.
  31. Crockett, D.J., Hadjisatvropoulos, T., Hurwitz, T. (1992) Primacy and recency effects in the assessment of memory using the Rey Auditory Verbal learning Test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 7, 1, 97-107, 1992.
  32. Clark, MC., Kopala, L., James, G., Hurwitz, T., Li, D. Metabolic Subtypes in Patients with Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 1993; 33:86-92.
  33. Kopala, L.C., Clark, C., Hurwitz, T. Olfactory Deficits in Neuroleptic Naive Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 8 (1992) 245-250.
  34. Hurwitz T.A. Q: Post-Termination Relationships: Are they OK.A:Yes. The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review 3; 16-19, 1992.
  35. Honer WG., Bassett AS., MacEwan W., Hurwitz T., Li DKB., Hilal S., Prohovnik I. Structural brain imaging abnormalities associated with schizophrenia and partial of chromosome 5. Psychological Medicine 22, 519-524, 1992.
  36. Campbell C., Kopala L., Hurwitz T, Li D., Regional Metabolism in Microsmic Patients with Schizophrenia. Can. J. Psychiatry Vol. 36, Nov. 1991.
  37. Williamson S., Crockett D., Hurwitz T A., Remick R., A comparison of emotional information by depressive and organic patients. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 7(3) 233-242, 1992.
  38. Hurwitz TA., Amman W., Chu D., Clark C., Holden J., Brownstone R., Single photon emission computed tomography using 99mTc-HM-PAO in the evaluation of Alzheimer’s disease. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, Can. J. Neurol. Sci, 18: 59-62 1991.
  39. Hurwitz TA., LI DKB., ECT and Morphological Changes in the Brain: A MRI Study. In Stefanis CN et al (editors) Psychiatry: A World Perspective – Vol. 3 Elsevier Science Publisher’s B.V. 490-493, 1990.
  40. Crockett DJ., Hurwitz T., Vernon-Wilkinson R., Differences in neuropsychological performance in psychiatric, anterior- and posterior cerebral functioning groups. The International Journal of Neuroscience, 52; 45-47, 1990.
  41. Hurwitz TA., Carotid surgery: a neurologist’s perspective, British Columbia Medical Journal, 32:10-11, 1990.
  42. Wolters E Ch., Hurwitz TA., Mak E., Teal P., Peppard RF., Remick R., Calne S., Calne DB., Clozapine in the treatment of Parkinsonian patients with dopaminomimetic psychosis, Neurology, 40:832-834, 1990.
  43. Wolters E CH., Hurwitz TA., Peppard RF., Calne DB., Clozapine: an antipsychotic agent in Parkinson’s disease, Clinical Neuropharmacology, 12;83-90, 1989.
  44. Hurwitz TA., Clark C., Murphy E., Klonoff H., Martin WRW., Pate BD., Regional cerebral glucose metabolism in major depressive disorder, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 35: 684-688, 1990.
  45. Hurwitz TA., Clark C., Response to Warner et al, Letter, Biological Psychiatry, 27:467, 1990.
  46. Goumeniouk AD., Hurwitz TA., Zis AP., Primidone in drug-induced tremor, letter, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9:451, 1989.
  47. Kopala L., Clark C., Hurwitz T., Sex differences in olfactory function in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, 146:1320-1322, 1989.
  48. Hurwitz T.A., Ideogenic neurological deficits: conscious mechanisms in conversion symptoms. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 1: 301-308, 1989.
  49. Tuokko, H., Crockett, D., Hurwitz T., Kozak J., Frequencies of WAIS-R dementia profiles in clinical samples., International Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1991, 13, 1-3.
  50. Crockett D., Tallman K., Hurwitz T., Kozak J., Neuropsychological performance in psychiatric patients with and without documented brain dysfunction, International Journal Neuroscience, 41:71-79, 1988.
  51. Lam R.W., Hurwitz T.A., Wada J.A., The clinical use of EEG in a general psychiatric setting, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 39:533-536, 1988.
  52. Hurwitz T., Kopala L., Clark C., Jones B., Olfactory deficits in schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry, 23;123-128, 1988.
  53. Hurwitz T.A., Calne D.B., Waterman K., Treatment of dopaminomimetic psychosis in Parkinson’s disease with electroconvulsive therapy. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 15;32-34, 1988.
  54. Hurwitz T.A., Narcosuggestion in chronic conversion symptoms using combined intravenous amobarbital and methylphenidate, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 33;147-151, 1988.
  55. Honer, W.G., Hurwitz, T.A., Li, D.K.B., Palmer M., Paty, D.W. Temporal lobe involvement in multiple sclerosis patients with psychiatric disorders, a magnetic resonance imaging study, Archives of Neurology, 44:188-190, 1987.
  56. Hurwitz T.A., Beiser M., Nichol H., Kozak J. Validation of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire as a self-rating screening instrument for clinically significant psychological distress, Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa, 12;239-241, 1987.
  57. Hurwitz, T.A., Beiser, M., Nichol, H., Patrick, L., Kozak, J. Impaired interns and residents, Canadian Psychiatric Journal, 32:165-169, 1987.
  58. Crockett, D., Bilsker, D., Hurwitz, T.A., Kozak, J. Clinical utility of three measures of frontal lobe dysfunction in neuropsychiatric samples, International Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 29, 1-8, 1986.
  59. Hurwitz, T.A., Wada, J.A., Kosaka, B.D., Strause, E.W. Cerebral organization of affect as suggested by temporal lobe seizures, Neurology 35:1335-1337, 1985.
  60. Hurwitz, T. A., Amitriptyline, diazepam and ethanol – A triple drug interaction, Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics Bulletin University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, 8, No. 1, May, 1978.