Baycrest Research and Innovation News

Air Transat Flight 236 passengers are invited to participate in a unique study led by Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute in partnership with the University of Toronto and McMaster University

Passengers from Air Transat Flight 236 provide a highly unique opportunity to study the different responses individuals have to the trauma that was experienced on August 24, 2001. This opportunity has been recognized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the U.S. National Institute of Health, who have provided funding for our research.
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Neuroscience study seeks passengers who survived terrifying Air Transat flight in 2001

Passengers from an Air Transat flight that almost crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2001 are being invited to participate in a study led by Baycrest’s world-renowned Rotman Research Institute in partnership with the University of Toronto and McMaster University.
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Distinguished Population Neuroscientist
joins Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute

A prominent researcher and pioneer in the emerging field of “population neuroscience” has joined Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute and its world-renowned memory and aging science team.
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Mobile help for memory lapses

Baycrest's innovative Memory Link program which trains adults with memory problems to use handheld technology devices (ie. palm pilots, smartphones and blackberries) is the focus of a story in the Montreal Gazette.
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Story? Unforgettable. The Audience? Often Not.

The behavioural study on "memory" --led by post-doctoral fellow Nigel Gopie (Rotman Research Institute) and Colin MacLeod (U of Waterloo)-- is reported in the New York Times
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Baycrest is leading a team of international scientists to build the world's first virtual brain

Baycrest is leading a team of international scientists to build the world's first virtual brain. It's a mammoth project that could have exciting implications for diagnoses and treatments of a range of brain disorders. To read the story from last Saturday's Globe & Mail...
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Canada in race to create the world's first virtual brain

Baycrest is leading a team of international scientists in a mammoth project to create the world’s first functional, virtual brain. The effort puts Canada in a global race to pull off a neuroscience feat that is comparable to decoding the human genome. The achievement could revolutionize how clinicians assess and treat various brain disorders, including cognitive impairment caused by stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Older adults more vulnerable to distraction from irrelevant information

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

Feeling foggy and forgetful? Canadian scientists develop program to help older adults slow down normal deterioration of mental ability

Scientists find more evidence the aging brain is easily distracted thanks to noisy fMRI scanner

Patients who recover well from serious head injuries never feel quite the same, complain of “mental fatigue”

Brain noise is a good thing

Seniors with type 2 diabetes may experience memory declines immediately after eating unhealthy meal

Short-Term Use of Antipsychotics in Older Adults With Dementia Associated With Serious Adverse Events

Frontal lobe damage can be risky business

Powerful imaging tools shed new light on how aging brain is assaulted by disease – and its remarkable capacity for repair

Head injuries result in widespread brain tissue loss one year later

Cooking up a map of the mind

Optimizing drug prescribing decisions for seniors

Feeding the brain!

Forgetting Things? Don't panic -- memory troubles are perfectly normal in middle age... July/August issue of Good Times magazine

New triggers found for Alzheimer's - National Post

A reminder: Forgetfulness normal part of daily life