Media Coverage 2008

May 26 – 30, 2008
Week-long series
The Globe & Mail and Globe website
“Fast Times at Senior High”
Life reporter Rebecca Dube and award-winning photographer Kevin Van Paassen spent two months at the Terraces of Baycrest talking to residents about what it’s like to live in a communal setting. Theme stories focused on adjustment, love and romance, cliques, and facing end of life.

April 21, 2008
TVOntario, The Agenda
Rethinking Alzheimer’s
Neurologist Tiffany Chow (Baycrest Memory Clinic) and philosopher-in-residence Sholom Glouberman join panel discussion about what the future holds for successfully tackling Alzheimer’s – the leading cause of dementia.

April 7 – 8, 2008
CFTO-TV, Canada AM, Canadian Healthcare Technology
The Ontario government announces the creation of the province’s first Centre for Brain Fitness, to be located at Baycrest. The centre will develop and commercialize a range of innovative products aimed at improving the brain health of Ontario’s aging population.

March 27, 2008
The National Post – front page!
Alzheimer’s screening raises ethical quandary
The Post reported on exciting advancements in brain imaging technology at this year’s Rotman Research Institute Conference in March. Today’s imaging tools can detect “amyloid” plaque, brain shrinkage and other telltale signs of Alzheimer’s long before symptoms show. Reporter Tom Blackwell cottoned on to the ethical dilemma the powerful equipment poses for doctors: should they push for routine brain scans for their patients, despite the high costs of these scans and limited usefulness of current Alzheimer’s drugs on the market?

March 20, 2008
The Toronto Star - “Deep Thoughts” column
“Help to find the way”
Computer science PhD candidate Mike Wu talks about his work with Baycrest to develop electronic memory aids for people with severe amnesia.

March 4, 2008
CTV.ca, Reuters, Science Daily, Yahoo News!, One News (New Zealand)
“Head injuries result in widespread brain tissue loss”
International media report on a Baycrest study which found that a serious head injury can result in more widespread loss of brain tissue than previously thought. The study is published in Neurology.

MORE magazine
Feb/March 2008
Nurturing your memory: what you can do to keep your brain in shape
Baycrest psychologist Dr. Kelly Murphy and scientist Dr. Carol Greenwood (nutrition and cognition) are among the experts interviewed for this magazine feature.

Feb. 23, 2008
The Jerusalem Post
“Holocaust survivors: Handle with care”
Baycrest’s unique practice manual, Caring for Aging Survivors, is reprinted in Hebrew by the ESHEL organization. The translation comes just in time to help the 256,000 Israeli Holocaust survivors.

Jan. 30, 2008
New York Times
“War concussions linked to stress”
Rotman scientist Dr. Brian Levine offered his insights on a new report that looked at the effects of mild head injuries in U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq. Dr. Levine studies recovery and reorganization of brain function after head injury.

Jan. 16, 2008
CBC Radio Metro Morning
Caring for Aging Parents
Morning host Andy Barrie interviewed Baycrest geriatrician Dr.Michael Gordon about the challenges of caring for elderly parents. Dr. Gordon is co-author of the book, Parenting Your Parents.

Jan. 5, 2008
The Globe and Mail
Science City Feature -- “Cooking up a map of the mind”
Rotman neuroscientist Dr. Randy McIntosh is among a group of leading researchers in Toronto who are breaking new ground in their field. Dr. McIntosh explores brain network flexibility in an effort to predict which people have the most potential for cognitive recovery after an injury such as stroke.