Shitij Kapur, best known for his pioneering research in neuroimaging, is giving a talk, Imaging as a Tool in the Assessment and Treatment of Schizophrenia, tonight at 8 in Wenjack Theatre.

        Invited to give the J. P. S. Robertson Lecture, Kapur is best known for his pioneering use of positron emission tomography to study the relationship between abnormal brain activity and mental health problems.

        Kapur holds appointments at Toronto's Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and the University of Toronto's Rotman Research Institute. He graduated in medicine from the India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 1988. After completing a psychiatric residency at the University of Pittsburgh, he moved to Toronto in 1992. He recently earned a doctorate in neuroscience from U of T's Institute of Medical Science.

        Kapur has received many awards and research fellowships for his investigations in the field of biological psychiatry. His research has won national and international, public and corporate support from such agencies as Canada's Medical Research Council, the Swedish Council for Health Research and the Ely Lilly Pharmaceutical Company. He has lectured at conferences, hospitals and universities around the world and published more than 50 papers in international journals.