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Fall 2017

Graduation

Master of Arts: Congratulations to Elisea De Somma, Mariami Khourochvili, Jenkin Mok, Raman Sehra, and Erica Tatham!

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Roles & Contributions

Iris Yusupov was elected as a student representative for the CPA's Clinical Neuropschology Section.

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Awards

• Areeba Adnan was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship.

• Stevenson Baker was awarded the CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence.

• Claire Champigny received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Master's Award (CGS-M).

• Angela Deotto received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Award.

• Elisea De Somma received the Clinical-Developmental Master's Award.

• Tracy Fabri received the LaMarsh Student Research Award.

• Katie Herdman was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

• Julia Khalilova received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Master's Award (CGS-M).

• Kojo Mintah renewed the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award.

• Jenkin Mok received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Doctoral Award.

• Sara Pishdadian was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

• Erica Tatham received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Award.

• Iris Yusupov received the CPA Clinical Neuropsychology Section: Knowledge Translation Grant.

• Iris Yusupov was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

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Publications

• Areeba Adnan's article, Brain Changes Following Executive Control Training in Older Adults, was published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.

• Katie Herdman's co-authored article, Hippocampal activation and memory performance in schizophrenia depend on strategy use in a virtual maze, was published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.     
   

Presentations

• Areeba Adnan presented at the 47th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in Washington D.C., USA.

  • Title: Default to executive coupling is associated with divergent thinking in older adulthood.

• Emily Barlow-Krelina presented at the 7th joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS Meeting in Paris, France.

  • Title: Executive dysfunction in paediatric-onset multiple sclerosis: Deficits above and beyond slowed processing speed.

  • Emily was awarded the ECTRIMS travel award.

• Elisea De Somma presented her Master's research at the 7th joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS Meeting in Paris, France.

• Tracy Fabri presented at the 2017 Brain Child Partners Conference in Toronto​.

  • Title: Visuomotor Integration in Youth with Multiple Sclerosis: An Integrative Approach to Assessing Cognitive and Visuomotor Functioning in the Pediatric Onset MS Population.​

• ​Jenkin Mok presented at the 15th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroeconomics in Toronto.

  • Title: Is it time? Examining the effects of episodic imagining on reward discounting.

• Sara Pishdadian presented at the ​58th Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society in Vancouver.

  • Title: ​Pattern Separation in Remote Spatial Memory in Healthy Aging

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Summer 2017

Presentations

• Katie Herdman​ presented at the International Neuropsychological Society Mid-Year Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Title: ​Using Google Street View to investigate navigation of frequently travelled environments in developmental amnesia.

  • Katie was awarded the International Neuropsychological Society Student Liaison Committee Research Award. 

• Katie Herdman presented at the 78th Canadian Psychological Association National Convention in Toronto.

  • Title: Comparable Achievement of Client-Identified Goals in Intervention and No-Intervention Groups: Reevaluating the Use of Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure​.

• Jenkin Mok presented at the 78th Canadian Psychological Association National Convention in Toronto.

  • ​Title: Future thinking and Decision Making: Does episodic prospection modulate the effects of probability discounting in older adults?

• Jenkin Mok presented a data blitz at the Toronto Area Memory Group Spring 2017 Meeting.

  • Title: Is it time? The effects of episodic imagining on reward discounting. 

• Raman Sehra presented her research findings at a workshop for Epilepsy Toronto.

  • Title: Autobiographical Memory in Children with Epilepsy   

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