Recent News

Congrats to Mila Huhtala!

The CNRG congratulates our lab member Mila on her admission to the combined MD/PhD program at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry in London. She will start her medical school program in the Fall of 2021. Best wishes!

Four abstracts accepted for INS 2020

Four abstracts submitted were accepted for presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, which is to take place February 5-8, 2019 in Denver, CO. Come see us in Denver!

Congratulations to Amanda O'Brien!!!

Congratulations to senior lab member Amanda O'Brien who has successfully matched to the Post-Doctoral Fellowship program in Pediatric Neuropsychology at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario!

Seven abstracts accepted for INS 2019

Seven of seven abstracts submitted were accepted for presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society to take place February 20-23, 2019 in New York City. Come see us in NY!

Abdullah, D., Richardson, R.J., Casey, J.E. The association between emotions, working memory, and executive functioning in an undergraduate population

Bartlett, A.N., Casey, J.E., Derikozis, E., Huhtala, M. The association among sentence memory and other other cognitive abilities in school-aged children.

Congratulations to CNRG students!

Congratulations to two of the CNRG doctoral students for successfully matching to sites for their pre-doctoral internships that begin in September 2018!

  • Amanda O'Brien - child neuropsychology resident at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, ON
  • Natalie Frost - child psychology resident at Kingston Internship Consortium in Kingston, ON
     

Further congratulations go out to two of our undergraduate research assistants embarking for Montreal to continue graduate education at McGill University:

O'Brien & Kivisto to present at ICAP/CPA 2018

Amanda O'Brien & Lynette Kivisto will be presenting two posters on behalf of the Sports-Related Concussion Centre at the 29th International Congres of Applied Psychology in Montreal, QC from June 25-30, 2018, which is being hosted in conjunction with the 79th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association.

2018 research are projects underway

Check out the Current Projects page for a brief overview of the many research projects underway in the CNRG lab in early 2018!  This includes projects for Amanda O'Brien's doctoral dissertation, two masters theses, and two undergraduate honours theses. Topics include the assessment of reading abilities, emotional functioning, and various cognitive abilities, including executive functioning and working memory.

6 posters accepted for INS 2018!

Congratulations to members of CNRG for the acceptance of 6 posters to be presented at the 46th meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in February 2018! 

Keep an eye out for the following research projects at INS: