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Rotman News
The marriage of the brain and the body
The Globe & Mail reports on the launch of a massive population-based study led by Baycrest that will examine the environmental and genetic factors that influence our brain and body health from childhood to old age. Dr. Tomas Paus, a neuroscientist and pioneer in the emerging field of "population neuroscience", recently joined Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and will lead the study with his scientific partner Dr. Zdenka Pausova, who is based at Sick Kids.
Building a virtual brain
In a chilly room that once housed patients at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Randy McIntosh and his colleagues are trying to build a brain.
New research suggests older brains have a hard time tuning out distractions when concentrating on a single task
In a study that has received international media attention, Dale Stevens, Cheryl Grady, Lynn Hasher and Kimberly Chiew have provided further evidence that the aging brain has difficulty filtering out irrelevant information in the environment when compared to younger brains. The study reported in the Toronto Star is the first to look at what is going on in the brain (using fMRI) when people try to form a memory and fail.
