This research is conducted at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute, a centre for neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Brian Levine, Ph.D., C.Psych., ABPP-cn
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Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences
Professor of Psychology and Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto Baycrest Site Director, Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery Adjunct faculty: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, York University Department of Psychology Dr. Brian Levine obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of South Florida and completed fellowships in clinical neuropsychology at McLean Hospital in Boston and cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute. He has published over 120 peer reviewed scientific articles and chapters on memory, frontal lobe function, traumatic brain injury, aging, dementia, and rehabilitation as well as Mind and the Frontal Lobes: Cognition, Behavior, and Brain Imaging (2012, Oxford University Press) and Goal Management Training® intervention for executive deficits (with Ian Robertson and Tom Manly). He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science and recipient of the 2015 International Neuropsychological Society's Benton award for mid-career research achievement. His research has been funded by federal agencies (CIHR, NIH) continuously for the past 17 years, receiving nearly $6 million in funding as a principal investigator and $8.3 million as a co-investigator. Dr. Levine, a board-certified neuropsychologist, is clinically active, providing expert opinions in cases involving brain injury, dementia, and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Levine is frequently called upon to communicate research findings to health professionals and the general public. He has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBC radio, USA Today, Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, and Discovery Health. |
Daniela Palombo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System
Dr. Palombo obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2012 from the University of Toronto. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine and conducts research out of the VA Boston Healthcare system in the Memory Disorders Research Center. Dr. Palombo is interested in the neural bases of episodic memory. She approaches this topic in a multifaceted manner, combining structural and functional neuroimaging with genetic techniques. A branch of this research explores how episodic memory varies across individuals. More specifically, she investigates the factors that relate to being a relatively ‘good’ versus ‘poor’ rememberer and the underlying neural correlates of this variability in healthy people. Dr. Palombo also investigates how episodic memory relates to other cognitive capacities, particularly decision making and future planning.
Dr. Palombo obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2012 from the University of Toronto. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine and conducts research out of the VA Boston Healthcare system in the Memory Disorders Research Center. Dr. Palombo is interested in the neural bases of episodic memory. She approaches this topic in a multifaceted manner, combining structural and functional neuroimaging with genetic techniques. A branch of this research explores how episodic memory varies across individuals. More specifically, she investigates the factors that relate to being a relatively ‘good’ versus ‘poor’ rememberer and the underlying neural correlates of this variability in healthy people. Dr. Palombo also investigates how episodic memory relates to other cognitive capacities, particularly decision making and future planning.