Results: Accelerator Program
| Funding Cycle | Award Type | Title | Value | Lead PI | Department | Co-Applicants / Collaborators | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Using automated touchscreen tasks for cognitive assessment in the alpha-synuclein Parkinson's model | $69,937 | Beraldo de Paiva, Flavio | Physiology and Pharmacology | Prado, Marco; Prado, Vania | Parkinson's disease, touchscreens |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Evaluating cognitive impairment and imaging and blood biomarkers in a model of concussion | $100,000 | Brown, Arthur | Robarts Research Institute | Prado, Marco; Bartha, Robert; Menon, Ravi; Daley, Mark | Concussion, fMRI, MRS, biomarkers, touchscreens |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Imaging visually-evoked cortical activity | $90,265 | Butler, Blake | Psychology | Lomber, Steve; Gilbert, Kyle; Mathias Dietz | Hearing & auditory perception, neuroplasticity |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Genetic manipulation of lactate metabolism to regulate memory and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. | $53,684 | Cumming, Robert | Biology | Barta, Robert; Scholl, Tim | Alzheimer's disease, memory |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Imaging fetal brain connectivity in high risk pregnancy: Can it influence the incidence of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric problems? | $39,500 | de Ribaupierre, Sandrine | Clinical Neurological Sciences | McKenzie, Charles; de Vrijer, Barbra; Eagleson, Roy; Levin, Simon; Oglivie, Jaqueline | Neonatal, neuroplasticity, mental health, fMRI, MRI, fetal MRI |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | State-of-the-art clinical assessment of hand function in stroke and cervical spondylotic myelopathy | $82,260 | Diedrichsen, Joern | Computer Science | Ejaz, Naveed; Krakauer, John; Olds, Kevin; Teasell, Robert; Duggal, Neil; Pruszynski, Andrew | Stroke & ischemic brain injury, cervical myelopathy, motor function |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Single-photon calcium imaging for interrogating the circuitry of the frontoparietal cognitive control network | $60,944 | Everling, Stefan | Physiology and Pharmacology | Menon, Ravi; Ma, Liya | Novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques, miniscopes |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Characterizing auditory cortical receptive fields | $54,019 | Johnsrude, Ingrid | Psychology, Communications Sciences and Disorders | Billig, Alex; Howard III, Matthew; Steven, David; Burneo, Jorge | Hearing & auditory perception |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Development of fMRI compatible reversible deactiviation to examine cerebral networks | $109,917 | Lomber, Stephen | Physiology and Pharmacology, Psychology | Butler, Blake; Everling, Stefan; Chronik, Blaine | fMRI, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Investigating VTA, SNc and dopamine projections in the brain using MRI | $36,809 | MacDonald, Penny | Clinical Neurological Sciences | Khan, Ali; Owen, Adrian; Menon, Ravi | Parkinson's disease, compulsion |
| 2017 Round 1 | Stimulus | Recording neuronal activity using miniscopes | $109,998 | Prado, Marco | Robarts Research Institute | Prado, Vania; Williams, Sylvian; El Mestikawy, Salah | Compulsion, miniscopes |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | Development of a novel pharmaceutical to prevent noise-induced hearing loss | $69,000 | Allman, Brian | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Walton, Paul | Hearing & auditory perception |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | Magneto-vestibular Stimulation (MVS): effects on behaviour and resting state networks | $63,895 | Corneil, Brian | Physiology and Pharmacology | Everling, Stefan; Gati, Joe; Medendorp; Pieter | MRI, vision/visual perception |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | Neurocognitive, genetic and environmental risk factors of learning disorders in children | $97,209 | Joanisse, Marc | Psychology | Stevenson, Ryan; Ansari, Daniel; Hayden, Elizabeth; Cardy, Janis; Archibald, Lisa; Gruen, Jeffrey | Neurodevelopment, mental health, learning & learning disorders |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | System-wide electrophysiological assessment of hearing | $57,260 | Johnsrude, Ingrid | Psychology, Communication Sciences and Disorders | Herrmann, Bjorn; Allen, Chris | Hearing & auditory perception |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | Diffusion MRI modelling of the cortex by macro- and myelo-architecture | $75,900 | Khan, Ali | Medical Biophysics, Robarts | Baron, Corey | MRI, DWI |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | The role of the basolateral amygdala in gaze aviodance behaviour | $85,910 | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio | Physiology and Pharmacology | Palaniyappan, Lena; Nicolson, Robert | Mental health, facial recognition, mood & emotion & social behaviour |
| 2017 Round 2 | Stimulus | The impact of maternal immune activation on fetal brain development | $68,300 | Renaud, Stephen | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Schmid, Susanne | Mental health, neurodevelopment, neonatal |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | The role of astrocytes in memory: Focus on pattern separation | $94,500 | Bussey, Tim | Physiology and Pharmacology | Prado, Vania; Kramar, Ceci; Prado, Marco; Saksida, Lisa | Memory, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques, touchscreens |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | Relating functional and structural signatures of Parkinson’s disease to changes in dopamine signaling: A PET/fMRI study | $98,500 | MacDonald, Penny | Clinical Neurological Sciences | Hicks, Justin; Anazodo, Udunna; Prato, Frank; Dagher, Alain | Parkinson's disease, MRI, fMRI |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | Protecting against hemodialysis induced neuro-cognitive injury | $20,000 | McIntyre, Chris | Medicine, Medical Biophysics | Owen, Adrian | Stroke & ischemic brain injury |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | The impact of violent gaming on the brain as a function of individual differences in trait empathy | $51,125 | Mitchell, Derek | Psychiatry, Anatomy and Cell Biology | Finger, Elizabeth; Neufeld, Richard | fMRI, mood & emotion & social behaviour |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | Role of microglia signaling in brain circuit development and cognition. | $90,000 | Prado, Vania | Robarts Research Institute | Prado, Marco; Inoue, Wataru | Mental health, memory, mood & emotion & social behaviour |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | Growing new dendritic spines to correct cognitive deficits of schizophrenia | $79,000 | Rajakumar, Raj | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Allman, Brian; Inoue, Wataru | Mental health, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques |
| 2017 Round 3 | Stimulus | Establishing a translational platform for studying sensory processing in neurodevelopmental disorders | $66,500 | Schmid, Susanne | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Allman, Brian; Stevenson, Ryan; Cardy Janis | Hearing & auditory perception, language & speech, mental health, neurodevelopment |
| 2018 Round 1 | Stimulus | Assessing listening with engaging, real-world auditory signals | $74,474 | Herrmann, Bjorn | Psychology | Johnsrude, Ingrid | Hearing & auditory perception, aging, fMRI, EEG, language & speech, mental health, neurodevelopment |
| 2018 Round 1 | Stimulus | Communicating with patients with disorders of consciousness by translating thoughts into light | $56,180 | St Lawrence, Keith | Medical Biophysics | Owen, Adrian; Debicki, Derek; Gofton, Teneille; Milej, Daniel | Brain trauma, consciousness, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques, vegetative states |
| 2018 Round 1 | Stimulus | PET and MRI measurements of neuroinflammation and brain plasticity after a stroke | $99,920 | Thiessen, Jonathan | Medical Biophysics | Whitehead, Shawn; Hicks, Justin; Fox Matthew | Stroke & ischemic brain injury, MRI, neuroplasticity, aging, brain trauma, Alzheimer's disease |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Uncovering the neural basis of cognitive impairment following hearing loss: An all-optical electrophysiology approach | $95,900 | Allman, Brian | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Inoue, Wataru | Hearing & auditory perception, neuroplasticity, aging |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Development of virtual gaming environments for functional magnetic resonance imaging | $89,854 | Culham, Jody | Psychology | Johnsrude, Ingrid; Martinez-Trujillo, Julio; VPixx Technologies | fMRI, novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to detect brain activity associated with passive auditory and sensory processing in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest | $52,072 | Debicki, Derek | Clinical Neurological Sciences | St Lawrence, Keith; Owen, Adrian; Gofton, Teneille; Al Thenayan, Eyad | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Dissecting the architecture of the neuromodulation of cognition in prefrontal cortical circuits with simultaneous intracellular recordings and local pharmacology | $46,736 | Everling, Stefan | Physiology and Pharmacology | Vijayraghavan, Susheel; Johnston, Kevin; Inoue, Wataru | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Validating methods for using noninvasive brain stimulation to influence auditory perception | $91,980 | Grahn, Jessica | Psychology | Butler, Blake; Henry, Molly; Lomber, Stephen; Joanisse, Marc; Everling, Stefan | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Altering high-risk trajectories in adolescent depression via attention bias modification training: Neural predictors and mechanisms | $81,200 | Hayden, Elizabeth | Psychology | Joanisse, Marc Liu, Pan | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Developing optogenetics/electrophysiology applications for studying cognitive impairment during stress | $100,000 | Inoue, Wataru | Physiology and Pharmacology | Allman, Brian; Martinez-Trujillo, Julio | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | The effect of musical training on speech and sound perception | $59,599 | Johnsrude, Ingrid | Psychology, Communications Sciences and Disorders | Irisk, Vanessa; Van Hedger, Stephen | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Developing behavioural testing and MR imaging to evaluate cognitive impariment in a model of clinical neurological sciences autoimmunity | $57,270 | Kerfoot, Steven | Microbiology and Immunology | Morrow, Sarah; Menon, Ravi; Beraldo, Flavio | - |
| 2018 Round 2 | Stimulus | Somatosensory microcircuits for real-world hand function | $99,132 | Pruszynski, Andrew | Physiology and Pharmacology | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio; Everling, Stefan; Hantman, Adam | - |
| 2019 Round 1 | Full | Developing a mechanistic understanding of crossmodal reorganization following sensory loss | $447,675 | Butler, Blake | Psychology | Allman, Brian; Menon, Ravi; Lomber, Stephen | - |
| 2019 Round 1 | Stimulus | Multi-area organization of saccade-evoked traveling waves | $100,850 | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio | Physiology and Pharmacology | Muller, Lyle; Williamson, Adam | - |
| 2019 Round 1 | Stimulus | Can self-efficacy training improve memory and functional activation in older adults with Mild Cognitive Training? A proof-of-concept intervention study | $39,800 | Nagamatsu, Lindsay | Kinesiology | Mitchell, Derek; Minda, Paul; Burhan, Amer; Horst, Becky | - |
| 2019 Round 1 | Stimulus | Developing and validating tools to assess higher level cognition in children and adolescents | $96,050 | Stojanoski, Bobby | Psychology | Joanisse, Marc; Stevenson, Ryan; Cambridge Brain Sciences | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Detecting fine-grained population codes in human prefrontal cortex | $92,847 | Mur, Marieke | Psychology | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio; Menon, Ravi | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Multisensory stimuli and virtual navigation tasks during intracranial clinical recordings | $98,500 | Muller, Lyle | Applied Mathematics | SullerMarti, Ana; Batterink, Laura; Martinez-Trujillo, Julio; Steven, David | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Temporal interference stimulation in NHP | $95,340 | Corneil, Brian | Physiology and Pharmacology | Muller, Lyle; Lehmann, Sebastian | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Development of a Novel Pharmaceutical to Prevent Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment following Loud Noise Exposure | $112,560 | Allman, Brian | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Walton, Paul; Whitehead, Shawn | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Unlocking the roles of aging and disease on white matter and neuroplasticity from development to degeneration using simultaneous PET and 129Xe MRI | $99,400 | Ouriadov, Alexei | Physics and Astronomy | Anazodo, Udunna; Thiessen, Jonathan; Fox, Matthew; Hicks, Justin; Whitehead, Shawn | - |
| 2019 Round 2 | Stimulus | Neuroplasticity during recovery of attentional function after parietal stroke in NHP | $99,625 | Baron, Corey | Medical Biophysics | Everling, Stefan; Khan, Ali; Butler, Blake; Miller, Dan | - |
| 2020 | Two-Year Grant Project | Neural correlates of adolescents’ adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic: A Longitudinal fMRI study | $98,568 | Liu, Pan | Psychology | Hayden, Elizabeth; Joanisse, Marc; Harkness, Kate; Stanton, Kasey | - |
| 2020 | Two-Year Grant Project | Dissecting the neural basis for cognitive impairment during stress | $106,400 | Inoue, Wataru | Physiology & Pharmacology | Martinez-Trujillo, Julio | - |
Please note that these results are accurate as of 2021-04-20
All BrainsCAN programs are part of Western’s $66M BrainsCAN initiative, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).
