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Awards & Grants
Awards & Grants
| Funding Cycle | Award Type | Title | Lead PI / Advisor | Details |
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Using automated touchscreen tasks for cognitive assessment in the alpha-synuclein Parkinson's model | Beraldo de Paiva, Flavio |
Parkinson's disease, touchscreens
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Evaluating cognitive impairment and imaging and blood biomarkers in a model of concussion | Brown, Arthur |
Concussion, fMRI, MRS, biomarkers, touchscreens
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Imaging visually-evoked cortical activity | Butler, Blake |
Hearing & auditory perception, neuroplasticity
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Genetic manipulation of lactate metabolism to regulate memory and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis | Cumming, Robert |
Alzheimer's disease, memory
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Imaging fetal brain connectivity in high risk pregnancy: Can it influence the incidence of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric problems? | de Ribaupierre, Sandrine |
Neonatal, neuroplasticity, mental health, fMRI, MRI, fetal MRI
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | State-of-the-art clinical assessment of hand function in stroke and cervical spondylotic myelopathy | Diedrichsen, Jörn |
Stroke & ischemic brain injury, cervical myelopathy, motor function
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Single-photon calcium imaging for interrogating the circuitry of the frontoparietal cognitive control network | Everling, Stefan |
Novel neuroscience / neuroimaging techniques, miniscopes
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Characterizing auditory cortical receptive fields | Johnsrude, Ingrid |
Hearing & auditory perception
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Development of fMRI compatible reversible deactivation to examine cerebral networks | Lomber, Stephen |
fMRI, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Investigating VTA, SNc and dopamine projections in the brain using MRI | MacDonald, Penny |
Parkinson's disease, compulsion
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| 2017 Round 1 | Accelerator | Recording neuronal activity using miniscopes | Prado, Marco |
Compulsion, miniscopes
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | Development of a novel pharmaceutical to prevent noise-induced hearing loss | Allman, Brian |
Hearing & auditory perception
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | Magneto-vestibular Stimulation (MVS): effects on behaviour and resting state networks | Corneil, Brian |
MRI, vision/visual perception
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | Neurocognitive, genetic and environmental risk factors of learning disorders in children | Joanisse, Marc |
Neurodevelopment, mental health, learning & learning disorders
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | System-wide electrophysiological assessment of hearing | Johnsrude, Ingrid |
Hearing & auditory perception
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | Diffusion MRI modelling of the cortex by macro- and myelo-architecture | Khan, Ali |
MRI, DWI
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | The role of the basolateral amygdala in gaze avoidance behaviour | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio |
Mental health, facial recognition, mood & emotion & social behaviour
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| 2017 Round 2 | Accelerator | The impact of maternal immune activation on fetal brain development | Renaud, Stephen |
Mental health, neurodevelopment, neonatal
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | The role of astrocytes in memory: Focus on pattern separation | Bussey, Tim |
Memory, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques, touchscreens
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | Relating functional and structural signatures of Parkinson's disease to changes in dopamine signaling: A PET/fMRI study | MacDonald, Penny |
Parkinson's disease, MRI, fMRI
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | Protecting against hemodialysis induced neuro-cognitive injury | McIntyre, Chris |
Stroke & ischemic brain injury
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | The impact of violent gaming on the brain as a function of individual differences in trait empathy | Mitchell, Derek |
fMRI, mood & emotion & social behaviour
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | Role of microglia signaling in brain circuit development and cognition | Prado, Vania |
Mental health, memory, mood & emotion & social behaviour
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | Growing new dendritic spines to correct cognitive deficits of schizophrenia | Rajakumar, Raj |
Mental health, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques
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| 2017 Round 3 | Accelerator | Establishing a translational platform for studying sensory processing in neurodevelopmental disorders | Schmid, Susanne |
Hearing & auditory perception, language & speech, mental health, neurodevelopment
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| 2018 Round 1 | Accelerator | Assessing listening with engaging, real-world auditory signals | Herrmann, Björn |
Hearing & auditory perception, aging, fMRI, EEG, language & speech, mental health, neurodevelopment
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| 2018 Round 1 | Accelerator | Communicating with patients with disorders of consciousness by translating thoughts into light | St Lawrence, Keith |
Brain trauma, consciousness, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques, vegetative states
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| 2018 Round 1 | Accelerator | PET and MRI measurements of neuroinflammation and brain plasticity after a stroke | Thiessen, Jonathan |
Stroke & ischemic brain injury, MRI, neuroplasticity, aging, brain trauma, Alzheimer's disease
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| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Uncovering the neural basis of cognitive impairment following hearing loss: An all-optical electrophysiology approach | Allman, Brian |
Hearing & auditory perception, neuroplasticity, aging
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| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Development of virtual gaming environments for functional magnetic resonance imaging | Culham, Jody |
fMRI, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques
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| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect brain activity associated with passive auditory and sensory processing in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest | Debicki, Derek | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Dissecting the architecture of the neuromodulation of cognition in prefrontal cortical circuits with simultaneous intracellular recordings and local pharmacology | Everling, Stefan | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Validating methods for using noninvasive brain stimulation to influence auditory perception | Grahn, Jessica | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Altering high-risk trajectories in adolescent depression via attention bias modification training: Neural predictors and mechanisms | Hayden, Elizabeth | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Developing optogenetics/electrophysiology applications for studying cognitive impairment during stress | Inoue, Wataru | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | The effect of musical training on speech and sound perception | Johnsrude, Ingrid | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Developing behavioural testing and MR imaging to evaluate cognitive impariment in a model of clinical neurological sciences autoimmunity | Kerfoot, Steven | |
| 2018 Round 2 | Accelerator | Somatosensory microcircuits for real-world hand function | Pruszynski, Andrew | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Accelerator | Developing a mechanistic understanding of crossmodal reorganization following sensory loss | Butler, Blake | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Accelerator | Multi-area organization of saccade-evoked traveling waves | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Accelerator | Can self-efficacy training improve memory and functional activation in older adults with Mild Cognitive Training? A proof-of-concept intervention study | Nagamatsu, Lindsay | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Accelerator | Developing and validating tools to assess higher level cognition in children and adolescents | Stojanoski, Bobby | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Detecting fine-grained population codes in human prefrontal cortex | Mur, Marieke | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Multisensory stimuli and virtual navigation tasks during intracranial clinical recordings | Muller, Lyle | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Temporal interference stimulation in NHP | Corneil, Brian | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Development of a Novel Pharmaceutical to Prevent Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment following Loud Noise Exposure | Allman, Brian | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Unlocking the roles of aging and disease on white matter and neuroplasticity from development to degeneration using simultaneous PET and 129Xe MRI | Ouriadov, Alexei | |
| 2019 Round 2 | Accelerator | Neuroplasticity during recovery of attentional function after parietal stroke in NHP | Baron, Corey | |
| 2020 | Accelerator | Neural correlates of adolescents' adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic: A Longitudinal fMRI study | Liu, Pan | |
| 2020 | Accelerator | Dissecting the neural basis for cognitive impairment during stress | Inoue, Wataru | |
| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Establishing neurophysiological evidence for the treatment of brain injury in intensive care units | Owen, Adrian (Blain-Moraes, Stefanie) |
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Identifying the neuronal activity of adult born neurons in the dentate gyrus that support behavioural pattern separation | Saksida, Lisa (Brandon, Mark) |
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Towards a translational model of the human-like Alzheimer pathology in an NHP model | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio (Cuello, A. Claudio) |
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | OMMABA: The Open Multimodal Music and Auditory Brain Archive | Grahn, Jessica (Zatorre, Robert) |
Hearing & auditory perception, fMRI, MRI
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Revealing the fundamental neuronal mechanisms underlying memory function in the CA1 area of the hippocampus | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio (Williams, Sylvain) |
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Multiscale analysis of structure/function relationships in temporal-lobe epilepsy | Johnsrude, Ingrid (Bernasconi, Neda) |
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| 2018 Round 1 | McGill-Western | Integrating behavioural, imaging, and transcriptional profiling to discover the impact of midlife stress in Alzheimer's disease | Bussey, Tim (Chakravarty, Mallar) |
Alzheimer's disease, MRI, touchscreens, memory
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| 2019 Round 1 | Graduate Studentship | A model of stress buffering by social interaction: Role of stress alleviating circuits in the hypothalamus | Sunstrum, Julia | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Graduate Studentship | Timing and beat perception in cochlear implant users | Mohammad Alipour, Zhaleh | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Graduate Studentship | Neuromodulation of cognitive physiology in NHP | Wong, Raymond | |
| 2019 Round 1 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Revealing the effect of aberrant connectivity on response inhibition in first episode psychosis | Limongi, Roberto; Cecala, Aaron |
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| 2019 Round 1 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Functional ultrasound imaging of neural activities of NHP during visual tasks: a pilot study | Cléry, Justine; Xiao, Yiming |
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| 2019 Round 1 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | A translational approach to examining the cognitive effects of dopaminergic medication in Parkinson's disease | Van Hedger, Kathryne; Palmer, Daniel |
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| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Identification of the effective connectivity changes in cortical and subcortical networks during pro- and anti-saccades using combination of fMRI and optogenetics/electrical microstimulation in NHPs | Cléry, Justine | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Assessment of neural pathway function for hearing | Herrmann, Björn | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Uncovering the neural representations of the intentions that drive action, and the role of intentional action in social settings | Laidlaw, Kaitlin | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Assessment of the neural mechanisms underlying self-regulation, and the factors that influence the development of these mechanisms | Lowe, Cassandra | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Single-photon calcium imaging of frontoparietal neuronal activities during working memory in NHPs | Ma, Liya | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Defining nutritional influences on neural network structure and function across development | Reichelt, Amy | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Central determinants of recovery from peripheral nerve injury | Reschechtko, Sasha | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Neural representations associated with personal space preferences as a function Autism Spectrum Disorder and Psychopathy | Vieira, Joana | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | - | Weiler, Jeff | |
| 2017 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Incorporating human brain connectome in planning deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's disease | Xiao, Yiming | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Optogenetic manipulation of intracellular calcium ion dynamics to regulate neural plasticity during stress | Igarashi, Hiroyuki | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Advancing inter-subject correlation approaches to naturalistic cognition using immersive virtual environments | Ekstrand, Chelsea | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Facilitating speech intelligibility through auditory perceptual training | Van Hedger, Stephen | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Integrating big data and neuroimaging to understand variation in knowledge organization and its influence on language comprehension | Troyer, Melissa | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Ultra-high field functional mapping of oculomotor networks in NHPs | Schaeffer, David | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The impact of sensory-motor control of speech on social communication and development in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders across the lifespan | Scheerer, Nikki | |
| 2018 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The neurobiology of autobiographical memory and emotion socialization in Autism Spectrum Disorder | McDonnell, Christina | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Compensatory cortical plasticity following induced spinal dysfunction | Weiler, Jeff | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Characterization and treatment of anxiety induced cognitive impairments with novel cannabidiol/terpene combinations | Craig, Allen | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Examining striatal-mediated cognitive function in patients with substance use and obsessive-compulsive disorders | Van Hedger, Kasey | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The effect of attention bias training on adolescent internalizing problems: Neurobehavioral predictors and mechanism | Liu, Pan | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Neural and computational basis of goal-dependent feedback control | Michaels, Jonathan | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cortical microcircuits underlying stress-induced cognitive impairments | Hashad, Ahmed | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Neuroplasticity in sensorimotor feedback driven by visual observation | Forgaard, Chris | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Hippocampal subregion characterization using vascular ultra-high field MRI | Haast, Roy | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Executive functions of numerical information in single-subjects at 7-Tesla | Wilkey, Eric | |
| 2018 Fall | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Second language learning: From low-level phonetic processing to learning new words | Desmeules-Trudel, Felix | |
| 2019 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Determining the neural circuits underlying excessive food intake in adolescents and young adults | Lowe, Cassandra | |
| 2019 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Validation and application of structural markers of auditory cortex to study cross modal plasticity | Miller, Daniel | |
| 2019 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Examining the effects of prenatal THC exposure on prefrontal-hippocampal interactions and long-term cognitive development | Nashed, Mina | |
| 2019 Spring | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Travelling through time with music: Assessing the use of music to support autobiographical memory in older adults with and without Alzheimer's disease | Swaminathan, Swathi | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Targeting the epichaperome to improve cognitive deficits in mouse models of synucleinopathies | Miranda, Aline | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Novel brain atlasing techniques to reveal the cerebellar role in music cognition | Juisa Pinho, Ana | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The Neural Basis of Audiovisual Temporal Perception: From Cortical Networks to Cellular Mechanisms | Schormans, Ashley | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The impact of pediatric hearing loss on mathematics and underlying neural reorganizations | He, Chenxi | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Functional connectivity in fetal growth restriction: association with delivery times and long-term language outcomes | Nichols, Emily | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | On neuromodulation-aware deep learning: A multi-level investigation | Mei, Jie | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Ultra-high field functional mapping of the brain circuits serving understanding social interactions and actions in common marmosets | Cléry, Justine | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Investigating Sex and Dose-Dependent Cognitive Impairments Produced by Adolescent THC Exposure | DeVuono, Marieka | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Investigating the neurodevelopmental aberrations on hippocampal formation induced by adolescent THC exposure | De Felice, Marta | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Harnessing optogenetics to treat demyelination and cognitive impairment in the cuprizone model of multiple sclerosis | Adebiyi, Olamide | |
| 2020 Winter | Postdoctoral Fellowship | The role of the medial temporal lobe in implicit learning: mechanisms and representations | Kalra, Priya | |
| 2024 Round 2 | ITN Impact | Impaired tRNA Function in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) | Duennwald, Martin; Farhan, Sali; Duncan, Thomas |
ALS, RNAs, tRNAs
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| 2024 Round 2 | ITN Impact | Translating epilepsy neuroimaging biomarkers into the operating room | Bernhardt, Boris; Lau, Jonathan |
Epilepsy, MRI biomarkers
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| 2024 Round 2 | ITN Impact | Non-invasive neurostimulation guided by circuit models by suppressing epileptiform activity | Pack, Christopher; Muller, Lyle |
Epilepsy, MRI, tES
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| 2022 Round 1 | ITN Impact | Early biomarkers to improve diagnostic workup in Parkinson's disease | Dagher, Alain; MacDonald, Penny |
Biomarkers, Parkinson’s Disease, MRI
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| 2022 Round 1 | ITN Impact | Early biomarkers for development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying therapies | Chakravaty, Mallar; Prado, Marco |
Biomarkers, imaging, disease modifying therapies
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