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Average brain activity patterns for males during retrieval of the episodic memory task. The brain areas depicted in darker colours (green and blue) were activated at baseline during both successful retrieval of object-location associations and correct rejections. While the brain areas depicted in warmer colours (orange and yellow) were activated at follow-up during both successful retrieval of object-location associations and correct rejections. A = anterior; S = superior; P = posterior; I = inferior ; R = right; L = left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/2950a747-7e3d-40ff-b95e-c330b8fbc853/Samson-Fig2.png Blog - SfN2022 - Sneak Peek #2 - Make it stand out Figure 2. Significant sex differences across cognitive and behavioural scores. Left: Demonstrates the significant decrease in language scores within females from visit 1 to visit 2 and the significant difference in scores between males and females at visit 2. The language scores are based on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS). Males are in blue and females are in pink. The x-axis represents time (Month 0 is the first visit and Month 24 is the follow-up visit). The y-axis represents the average RBANS language scores. Right: Illustrates the significant decrease in episodic memory correct rejection rate in males compared to females from visit 1 to visit 2. Correct rejections is the ability to correctly identify a new object as new during the episodic memory task. The x-axis represents time (Month 0 is the first visit and Month 24 is the follow-up visit). 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[pictured: my “art”] https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog21 monthly 0.5 2020-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1547847939784-6RLML3REKXY0MMN9RKIN/img1_blog21png.png Blog - The Virtualized Macaque Brain The Virtualized Macaque Brain (essentially a lot of hard work reduced into just two matrices) is used to specify connectivity of coupled neural mass models in TheVirtualBrain (TVB). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - The Virtualized Macaque Brain https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog19 monthly 0.5 2018-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - Newbies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1542054435016-0JOX7WZBL5918VMXXPB1/PJ+headshot.png Blog - Newbies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1542049655082-Q6QI81WW66YTCSKGUU1H/FordBurles2.jpg Blog - Newbies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1542049282778-EF6CYCSHH0L7WMXQNZW5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Newbies Burles F, Umiltå A, McFarlane L, Potocki K, Iaria G (2018) Ventral-Dorsal functional contribution of the posterior cingulate cortex in human spatial orientation: A meta-analysis, Frontiers in human neuroscience, 12, 190, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00190 https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog18 monthly 0.5 2018-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - SfN Poster Sneak Peak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1541202137113-OZA5R3O8PDJQPW9TDQQ2/Faber+Music+Network+SFN2018.png Blog - SfN Poster Sneak Peak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1541202164432-N7BBY4N25G6Y2NK7EF92/Shen+TVB+macaque+SFN2018.png Blog - SfN Poster Sneak Peak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1541202075301-I6IPKCUWFYQ799NAP88W/Shakil+BrainStates+Music+SFN2018.png Blog - SfN Poster Sneak Peak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1541201726117-9D9WFK0Q49R2RUCVJN95/Easson_FC-autism+SFN2018 Blog - SfN Poster Sneak Peak https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog17 monthly 0.5 2020-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1539789980462-AGX6GAEP7KH971OKSLGI/sfn+ARM+duds.jpg Blog - My 1st SfN ARM’s SfN appropriate attire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - My 1st SfN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1539790144794-SKMGYFGA7Q3R4YW2XMAH/sfn+cool+gang.jpg Blog - My 1st SfN Forensics are still working on it, but it is believed ARM is featured here, middle back. https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog16 monthly 0.5 2018-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1535072902761-KK11NEOP0OCFTXLUQ1ZA/easson+pic1.png Blog - NEUROHACKADEMY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1535072988432-127RCGCPLYY0NK8SD6ZM/easson+pic2.png Blog - NEUROHACKADEMY The Neurohackademy 2018 cohort. Credit: Madeleine Stevenson (University of Washington) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - NEUROHACKADEMY https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog15 monthly 0.5 2018-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532617688193-47QCJGYHD1ENUSJVY2O7/blog15+image6.png Blog - TEA BOT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - TEA BOT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532617282903-M8SFI4OQ18EBBDBIH4M0/image-asset.png Blog - TEA BOT This is what it looks like in MatLab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532617762979-68H1QKAQC01BU6A7QI3S/image-asset.png Blog - TEA BOT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532617087925-GHTWQ7N8JWJ7BL096K27/blog15+image2.png Blog - TEA BOT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532616973871-80A89ZKS26WXQI3HOZAI/blog15+image1.png Blog - TEA BOT - When I am asked how I take my tea, I say, ‘seriously’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1532617144990-9PHUKKY5LNSGOOCY7KD3/blog15+image3.png Blog - TEA BOT - Note: sometimes, sub-optimal tea is better than no tea. But only sometimes.   https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog14 monthly 0.5 2018-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - How individual connectomes got me through my dissertation defence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1530835135834-1ERJWLO9JYYV0W9IA8T0/Joelle+pic+2.png Blog - How individual connectomes got me through my dissertation defence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1530835108333-JQMZMVQN8DC70YEBWJL2/Joelle+pic+1.png Blog - How individual connectomes got me through my dissertation defence https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog13 monthly 0.5 2018-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - Mapping brain structure is not monkey business https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1530193636492-8PX47CIR16YXZGBWX3P4/connectome.png Blog - Mapping brain structure is not monkey business Not a bad correspondence between the partitioning of the tracer-based connectomes (left) and the DWI-based ones (right). Each module and their intra-modular connections are denoted by a different colour, with inter-modular connections in grey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1530193578986-EPEAFP99W68W404U2WPV/optics.png Blog - Mapping brain structure is not monkey business I made sure to keep my scientific skills sharp while on leave. https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog12 monthly 0.5 2018-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - Brainhack Global https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1527796974493-KBLOWHNQ66T6XAASB4LP/Hackathon+recap+-+Griffiths+pic+2.jpg Blog - Brainhack Global https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1527796689831-7XM6WDPRJAMNSRQ33PLD/Hackathon+recap+-+Griffiths.png Blog - Brainhack Global https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog11 monthly 0.5 2018-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - Checking Our Assumptions on Brain Structure and Function https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1527251391225-6AGP54Z2MRZG9NCOIPXQ/blog11+figure+white.png Blog - Checking Our Assumptions on Brain Structure and Function From: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/NETN_a_00055 https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog10 monthly 0.5 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1525368574454-VEVKQQ9BTJ2BCKZ9Z5PY/MY+ART+SF.png Blog - My Science. My Art. [pictured: my “art”] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - My Science. My Art. https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog9 monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1523465913762-CM9PNA9P6BW1F7PD5DTT/a+complex+journey.jpg Blog - What’s this book thing? A COMPLEX JOURNEY || Political turmoil leads to the emergence of new governing system (Global Council) that mimics the multiscale organization of CAS - Uses a Global AI system to track and reallocate resources - Effective at alleviating global economic imbalance and reducing political conflict, but less so on climate change || Three neuroscientists have developed a sophisticated brain-computer interface program firmly grounded in CAS, and propose that their system may be the perfect complement to Global AI system - Setting up a synergy that multiplies the efficacy of both systems || Discover that the Global AI system has been compromised - “Aliens” are steering the system to bias climate change || Scientists are recruited to be part of a special ops team to track the Aliens and prevent an impending disaster - Conflicts within the Global Council sets up additional tension > Some on the council are determined to eliminate the AI system and return the planet to the old political rule > Who can you trust? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1523466579750-SAXYVO5UIBYXWJ05Z75O/write+with+beer.png Blog - What’s this book thing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1523458866393-L1NB3LSEY5O59K2QFBUG/fireplace+pic.jpg Blog - What’s this book thing? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - What’s this book thing? https://www.armcintosh.com/blog/blog8 monthly 0.5 2018-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521136870217-WUB80YGEFRPUON12GW5D/Slide1.jpg Blog - Rapid Fire My main focus is understanding the link between individual structural and functional connectivity (SC, FC) and cognition. Our findings show that SC and FC is associated with individual differences in cognition. Multiple features of connectivity-cognition patterns are needed to describe the full range of associations, rather than a single global pattern. Moreover, SC and FC provide distinct sources of information for prediction of cognition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1514922088602-52R7KWKH7XZYX4FSPVQ9/McLab+Icon_C8A698+mini.png Blog - Rapid Fire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1522248435461-9AYKIYSC9ZJX14CJSIO1/Michele-final.png Blog - Rapid Fire I am a neuropsychiatrist with a research interest in schizophrenia as well as other neuropsychiatric disorders: how to prevent, understand and treat them. My scientific work in the McIntosh Lab at Baycrest is informed by the conceptualization of schizophrenia as a cognitive disorder. Specifically, I have been examining brain network changes as participants with schizophrenia learn a new vocabulary. Verbal learning is an area of potential impairment for persons with schizophrenia that directly impacts on functional outcome. In this study, participants completed an fMRI experiment on two separate days and the images were concatenated to examine the impact of time on the underlying brain signal, the brain-behaviour relationships and the network changes. We found task-unrelated changes in brain activity differentiated groups, particularly in a number of areas associated with cognitive switching and default mode regions. Here I show this finding in the precuneus, which is considered a hub region for cortical networks. Second, when we correlated functional connectivity across groups to behaviour, we noted that both groups showed similar relations, but also there were group main effects, which could reflect ‘trait’ differences in general cognitive capacity, and a group-by-time interaction, which may reflect ‘state’ differences of how cortical and subcortical networks are recruited during learning. We are now working towards a finer characterization of these network changes to better relate network dynamics to cognitive capacity in schizophrenia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521477559333-PRAW18NNTCGSZU6HSJ7Z/Carpentier+slide.png Blog - Rapid Fire The focus of my work has been on examining how information integration in neural networks is related to cognition and our subjective, conscious appreciation of our environments. One project has revolved around music perception, due to its multidimensional and information rich nature and the obvious high individuality of musical experiences. First, I investigated the use of brain signal complexity (measured as sample entropy across multiple temporal scales, or multiscale entropy) as a marker of neural information processing in two musical training studies. We found that brain signal complexity is higher in adult musicians, and this effect was most pronounced on a task that showed the largest behavioural difference between musicians and nonmusicians (A). To follow-up, we investigated the experience-dependent nature of this effect (B). After a month of music training was given to pre-school aged children, their brain complexity was higher in regions typically involved in music perception (e.g. Right primary auditory and superior temporal cortex) as well as parts of associative cortex (e.g. Precuneus and superior parietal cortex), which are purported hub regions. These changes in brain function were observed on music and linguistic perception tasks, leading us to propose that musical training increases diversity of brain network integration to support domain-specific music skill acquisition and music-to-language transfer effects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521230060432-O1TP47E6YQ492NN112O5/Slide1.png Blog - Rapid Fire My main focus is characterizing brain network dynamics in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For my first PhD project, I used unsupervised machine learning to define subtypes of ASD based on static and dynamic functional connectivity (FC). I found two ASD subtypes characterized by differences in FC within and between resting state networks, as well as differences in relationships between FC and measures of ASD severity. My second project involves using TheVirtualBrain to characterize mesoscopic-level brain network dynamics in ASD. In addition, I am currently working an a project that involves a systematic comparison of different fMRI preprocessing strategies to determine how these choices influence the resulting FC, as well as group differences in FC observed between participants with and without ASD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1522249291077-DRB4RG5VWXU1AC5WOX56/Slide1.png Blog - Rapid Fire Like most people in the group i have my finger in several pies at any given time. Probably the largest and hottest pie at the moment is work I am doing in collaboration with Jeremie Lefebvre at the Krembil Institute for Neuroscience on neural oscillations and brain stimulation. Large-scale oscillatory activity such as that observed in human M/EEG is believed to arise from a combination of cortical (e.g. Intracolumnar excitatory-inhibitory coupling) and thalamocortical mechanisms. There's been a lot of progress over the years on characterizing these two mechanisms separately, but relatively little that attempts to unify them in a single framework. So one of the things we've been working on is developing Virtual Brain models with more detailed and more prominent representations of the strong recurrent thalamocortical circuitry, by writing the thalamocortical loops directly into the equations describing the dynamics of cortical areas. The data in the figure is from a VirtualBrain model where each network node represents an individual cortico-thalamo-cortical motif with four components: a classic Wilson-Cowan ensemble of excitatory and inhibitory cortical neuronal populations, coupled to a pair of excitatory specific relay and inhibitory reticular thalamic nucleus populations. With this simple schematic we can reproduce a wide range of empirical observations, including M/EEG alpha rhythms and their suppression during cognitive tasks; functional connectivity; and effects of periodic brain stimulation. One of our main questions now is trying to understand how the topology of cortical connectivity influences brain rhythms and responses to rhythmic stimulation. Where next with this work? Well, one modest aim i have with this work is to move towards a more 'closed-loop' theory-hypothesis-experiment cycle, where we use The VIrtual Brain simulations to generate predicted M/EEG responses to TMS stimulation, use the models to generate novel predictions, and then acquire data to test those predictions in more-or-less real time. That would be great, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521230167864-R0TLWZVFSSJIECCZ7FET/Slide1.png Blog - Rapid Fire I started my PhD at the lab, September 2017 after previous work as a music therapist in geriatric and adult mental health. My research background is in music psychology, and my current focus is coursework, particularly statistical modelling and computational models of complex behaviours. I'm currently working on extracting features from musical stimuli and investigating how they may be represented in EEG data collected during music listening. I'm also preparing a review on the neural correlates of musical improvisation. My interests include studying changes in brain networks involved in music processing and production during healthy aging and with the onset of neurodegeneration, and I'll be examining this interesting topic during my PhD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521477691596-5VNVZISDLLANOUE8NKL0/Slide1.jpg Blog - Rapid Fire In a new project that I am doing across labs, I investigate local BOLD signal variability in older adults at-risk for developing mild cognitive impairment. We show BOLD variability, measured during resting state, is related to neuropsychological performance, though the direction of the effect is dependent on group and cognitive domain. Our next steps will explore how local variability supports functional connectivity, and again, how this relates to behaviour.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1521560883527-F2JICW6O6WW3M69YYGJ3/Slide1.png Blog - Rapid Fire Main focus during my PhD was on understanding and modeling the dynamics of functional connectivity (FC) networks using resting state functional MRI (fMRI) scans. We evaluated the performance of most commonly used dynamic FC analysis method of sliding window correlation (SWC) and discovered its shortcomings. We also proposed a new algorithm to detect the change points of FC networks. In the future, I plan to work with TheVirtualBrain to explore the structure in task-based and resting-state functional connectivity networks. 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CLICK HERE for more info, program & the registration link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1512592933371-AXVOMGTGV32PCBP7Q94M/Screen+Shot+2017-12-06+at+3.41.15+PM.png Our Research - TEDMED 2013 Dr. Randy McItnosh speaks at TEDMED 2013 hosted at the Institute of Medical Sciences at University of Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1512591833753-8UCOXSG7U0YSLQXN24FK/Screen+Shot+2017-12-06+at+1.33.03+PM.png Our Research - Toronto Star & TVB Toronto Star reporter Jennifer Wells had a MRI at Baycrest Health Services as part of an international project lead by Dr. McIntosh to collect data from around the world and assemble an open source virtual brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1512591839305-85V4DHF08ADQSGKZA11G/Screen+Shot+2017-12-06+at+1.40.53+PM.png Our Research - My Virtual Dream Read the article from TechVibes about how MVD crowdsourced 523 EEG datasets in one night and published meaningful science to boot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1512591876029-I66FGJBLTRWVADWWW0MO/Screen+Shot+2017-12-06+at+1.58.47+PM.png Our Research - National Post feat Dr. Randy McIntosh Article interviewing Dr. McIntosh, along with other heavy hitting neuroscientist whom are leading large scale projects geared towards 'building better brains'. [published 2012-03-31] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1512592362450-Y5I1T2VR8A08SY4XPAOT/Screen+Shot+2017-12-06+at+3.32.09+PM.png Our Research - Google Tech Talks Watch Dr. Randy McIntosh present The Virtual Brain project at Google Tech Talks. https://www.armcintosh.com/lab-members daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1610991840953-U3AN4HTI0O6PQCBPZAHI/TanyaBrown.png Lab Members - TANYA BROWN | Program Manager Email: tbrown@research.baycrest.org Website: tanyabrown.io As the program manager, I am dedicated to facilitating the McIntosh lab research program through a crystallized approach to science that combines a solid understanding of neuroscience concepts and theories as well as an aptitude to formulate project management to research endeavours. Additionally, I coordinate the international and multidisciplinary team of The Virtual Brain (TVB) to ensure the vast portfolio of TVB projects are complimentary, realistic and aligned with our goal to deliver the world’s leading advisor for clinical decision making for optimal brain health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1610991840953-U3AN4HTI0O6PQCBPZAHI/TanyaBrown.png Lab Members - TANYA BROWN | Program Manager Email: tbrown@research.baycrest.org Website: tanyabrown.io As the program manager, I am dedicated to facilitating the McIntosh lab research program through a crystallized approach to science that combines a solid understanding of neuroscience concepts and theories as well as an aptitude to formulate project management to research endeavours. Additionally, I coordinate the international and multidisciplinary team of The Virtual Brain (TVB) to ensure the vast portfolio of TVB projects are complimentary, realistic and aligned with our goal to deliver the world’s leading advisor for clinical decision making for optimal brain health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544718084572-8EEAP0K7DZ3LAN355EM8/TanyaBrown.png Lab Members - TANYA BROWN | Program Manager Email: tbrown@research.baycrest.org Personal Website LinkedIn As the program manager, I am dedicated to facilitating the McIntosh lab research program through a crystallized approach to science that combines a solid understanding of neuroscience concepts and theories as well as an aptitude to formulate project management to research endeavours. Additionally, I coordinate the international and multidisciplinary team of The Virtual Brain (TVB) to ensure the portfolio of TVB projects are complimentary, realistic and aligned with our goal to deliver the world’s leading advisor for clinical decision making for optimal brain health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544721556189-OK9NMU1JU3BAYODFTYLR/SarahCarpentier.png Lab Members - SARAH CARPENTIER | PHD EMAIL: scarpentier@research.baycrest.org I am primarily interested in neural network dynamics of how humans integrate information from our environments with our memories to produce higher order perceptions and our subjective, conscious appreciation of our environments. To this end, I have used EEG and MEG and taken a whole-brain network connectivity approach to studying the neural systems associated with musical training, perception, and preferences, as well as second language fluency and acquisition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544718055934-2H5OL5KQBDGTNQVTOODU/AmandaEasson.png Lab Members - AMANDA EASSON | Graduate Student Email: aeasson@research.baycrest.org LinkedIn I study brain network dynamics in children and adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder using multivariate statistics and The Virtual Brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1668699962339-PC6EQ4F76184MX1XN4E2/Dobri_Photo_bw.jpeg Lab Members - SIMON DOBRI | Postdoctoral Fellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1694453872634-XT07P4FEG0ALCG21VN5K/Jaspreet.jpg Lab Members - JASPREET DODD | Research Assistant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1695157290794-NIHXZM0KXB9I4CWYDVBL/Sarah+Faber.png Lab Members - SARAH FABER | Postdoctoral Fellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1592335191158-ADTYL9DG9ES5VEVI7DC2/Screen+Shot+2018-12-13+at+12.32.59+PM.png Lab Members - NOAH FRAZIER-LOGUE | Software Engineer Email: nfrazier-logue@research.baycrest.org Google Scholar Page My role in the McIntosh Lab is to write robust, extensible, and maintainable scientific software for use both within the lab and in the wider neuroscience community. I am currently working on implementing Partial Least Squares in Python as well as various data processing pipeline projects. My previous research includes applying adaptive weight-level noise methods to deep neural networks as well as automated commonsense reasoning and applying machine learning principles to server power management. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544722456466-T0R4FY1DHC5NJXE18AFN/Screen+Shot+2018-12-13+at+12.32.59+PM.png Lab Members - ERIN GIBSON | Graduate Student Email: egibson@research.baycrest.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544718057966-5X9PC9CZ58H914U8KRTS/TylerGood.png Lab Members - TYLER GOOD | Graduate Student Email: tgood@research.baycrest.org My work combines neuroimaging and computation modeling to understand the effect of subtle structural brain damage on functional dynamics in healthy people and those with neurological disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1599574420440-SKF4POFBGVBDQC0NN3H4/McLab+Icon_423B43.png Lab Members - LEO HUANG | Graduate Student Email: lhuang@research.baycrest.org My research focus is to study cognitive changes during healthy aging. Combining existing large-scale, longitudinal neuroimaging datasets and TheVirtualBrain, I hope to create functional brain network models that can predict brain network progressions as related to mental health. Additionally, I'm interested in consciousness research, specifically investigating the neural correlates of consciousness, as well as brain-computer interfaces and their application. WEBSITE: leohuangneuro.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1756852175013-VHMLWPBB41DZBLCFH1J3/Dobri_Photo_bw.jpeg Lab Members - CATHLIN J. HAN | Graduate Student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544721538969-LOF0VYWAD8XZWEZMDRY7/JohnGriffiths.png Lab Members - JOHN GRIFFITHS | PostDoc Email: jgriffiths@research.baycrest.org Personal Website Post-doctoral fellow in the McIntosh Lab at the Rotman Research Institute. He has degrees in psychology and cognitive neuroscience from Universities of Cambridge, Warwick, and York, UK, and is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney Center for Complex Systems. My work focuses on studying brain changes in ageing and neurological disease using a combination of neuroimaging, computational modelling, and theoretical neurobiology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1695157574344-IR8Y4TA496WZIRC79QYJ/PJ%2Bheadshot.jpg Lab Members - PHILLIP JOHNSTON | Graduate Student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544721531757-59VO1GHH0E9CHSJUA8DC/MicheleKorostil.png Lab Members - Michele Korostil | PhD Student Email: mkorostil@research.baycrest.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1697570233349-KN0ZPACA71XP3NN5218P/Katen-Kelly.jpg Lab Members - KATEN KELLY | Graduate Student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1610991263052-ILYNZYS8CXH4111BXOBN/Victoria+Liu.jpg Lab Members - VICTORIA LIU | Graduate Student Email: tliu2@research.baycrest.org I received my bachelor degree in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto. Throughout my undergraduate years, I received a wide range of training from computational neuroscience to social cognitive neuroscience. My interdisciplinary experience collectively contributed to my current research interest as a graduate student of the lab, which is to computationally model the semantic and episodic memory networks. I am currently working on a project to map out the temporal evolution of cortical semantic networks during incidental learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1543873149852-UBEHCWDT3VT4K9EF8X9F/Tanya+Brown+w+Muse.jpg Lab Members - Tanya Brown | Program Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1589473992187-1ZG9KE20DX4NUWEVVH2O/image-asset.jpeg Lab Members - LEANNE ROKOS | Graduate Student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1722545845771-S8C2IQUNJ2GJ1D73OIWB/image-asset.jpeg Lab Members - PATRICK MAHON | Senior Software Engineer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1665044336217-GL8BERWOK5L9DOAK4XUJ/image-asset.jpeg Lab Members - JOSH NEUDORF | Postdoctoral Fellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1589907865618-EJKS9ZM00BXRKCLHGIX8/McLab+Icon_C0B6BA.png Lab Members - ALEX SAMSON | Graduate Student Email: asamson@research.baycrest.org My main research focus is to address the multifaceted nature of neurodegenerative diseases, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. For my Master’s I am exploring key factors related to Alzheimer’s disease pathology through analyses of those diagnosed with the disease, those in progressive stages of the disease, and healthy individuals 55 years and older. For my PhD, I plan to expand on my Master’s research and look at the relationship between structural and functional brain connectivity, in the same sample population, in an attempt to better understand Alzheimer’s disease. I am hoping to generate well-established risk profiles that will aid in stratification for clinical research of Alzheimer’s disease and to utilize these outcomes as a platform for further investigation of neurodegenerative diseases using The Virtual Brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/a10300f4-cb49-4adb-8672-6a0c1ad3503f/sunayani_sarkar.jpg Lab Members - SUNAYANI SARKAR | Software Developer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1668699364786-2Z4AUC8AQMTRH4IVPA8X/KellyShen.jpg Lab Members - KELLY SHEN | Senior Program Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/bc4f3eb2-164a-45b0-91c7-bd0e45b06c04/image-asset.jpeg Lab Members - JACK SOLOMON | Postdoctoral Fellow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544718061333-NSJS1WXF51G843DJJSK6/ZhengWang.png Lab Members - ZHENG WANG | Programmer Email: zwang@research.baycrest.org My role in the lab is to carry out the technical requirements from a computer programming stance as well as consult on best practises for non-linear dynamic modelling. My research interests include brain imaging processing, brain network modeling and machine learning. Technician. Ph.D in Engineering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544723000930-J1G36D1PJKSRMHKNRL1U/FordBurles+BW.jpg Lab Members - FORD BURLES | Postdoctoral Fellow Email: fordburles@gmail.com I completed my graduate work at the University of Calgary, investigating the role of the retrosplenial cortex and posterior cingulate in spatial orientation and navigation. Specifically, I have identified a potential ventral-dorsal functional specialization within the posterior cingulate for the encoding and recall of spatial information, respectively. I also manage gettinglost.ca, a forum and online platform with a variety of interactive spatial orientation tasks. At the McIntosh lab, I will be leveraging The Virtual Brain and large neuroimaging datasets to evaluate low dimensional manifold models of brain activity. In the future, I am hoping to apply these methods to my projects investigating the neural correlates of Developmental Topographical Disorientation (a developmental disorder characterized by the lack of spatial orientation skills with no gross brain damage or other cognitive or neurological deficit) as well as understanding the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the brain and spatial orientation behaviours (more information about this project here: Canadian Space Agency: Wayfinding). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1544723007660-04FFOO0JYMW845L616TS/SadiaShakil+BW.png Lab Members - SADIA SHAKIL | Postdoctoral Fellow Email: sshakil@research.baycrest.org I have a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. I secured Fulbright scholarship for my PhD and Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship for my Postdoctoral studies. I integrate my engineering background with neuroscience by applying algorithms, concepts, and methods from image processing, signal processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, information theory, and network modeling in my research. My aim is to understand the underlying association between brain and behaviour and to model it in The Virtual Brain platform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1668699418527-79EAF8CAFV7Q3W7RRNMG/image-asset.jpeg Lab Members - ANIS ZAHEDIFARD | Graduate Student The aim of my research as an MA student at Simon Fraser University and a member of the McIntosh Lab is to explore the spatial-temporal changes of brain networks that support the process of healthy aging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58fb6d9bdb29d6860921b0ec/1645671123830-EJ0I6FH7DCTD8G4H3RJ6/image-asset.png Lab Members - JUSTIN WANG | Graduate Student I graduated from Western University with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours) in Microbiology & Immunology and a major in Computer Science. I develop software and manage data for researchers in and outside of the lab. 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