DS = Doctoral Student
1. Neurochemical Mechanisms underlying Rhythmic Auditory-Motor Entrainment: Dopaminergic Responses in Healthy Young, Elderly, and Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
Lead: Yuko Koshimori PhD
Collaborator Unit: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH/Neuroimaging Division
(Strafella, Houle)
2a. Music-Based Intervention for Executive and Attention Training in Major Depressive Disorder
2b. Can Musical Pleasure Responses Detect Early Anhedonia Onset as Suicidal Risk Indicator
Lead: Corene Hurt Thaut PhD
Student Assistant: Anna Karpazis MA/DS
Collaborator Unit: Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression CANBIND
(Kennedy, Rizvi, Rotzinger)
3. Neural Basis of Musical Memory Formation in Alzheimers Disease
Co-Lead: Veronica Vuong MA, Michael Thaut PhD
Collaborator Unit: St. Michael’s Hospital/Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science
(Fischer, Schweizer, Fornazzari, Churchill)
4. Music Modulates Muscle Activity and Bruxism in Temporomandibular Disorder
Lead: Veronica Vuong MA
Collaborator Unit: UofT Faculty of Dentistry
(Cioffi)
5. Modulating Functional Connectivity of the Cerebellum in Musician Dystonia
Lead: Michael Thaut PhD
Collaborator Unit: Toronto Western Hospital/Krembil Neuroscience Centre
(R. Chen)
6. Prevalence of BDNF Polymorphism in Musician
Lead: Tara Henechowicz MA/DS
Collaborator Unit: Centre for Applied Genomics/Sick Kids Hospital
(Li)
7. Vocal Interventions for Voice Disorders
Lead: Charlene Santoni MMUS/DS
Collaborator Unit: UofT Dept. of Speech/Language Pathology
(Bressmann); Faculty of Music/Department of Voice
(MacDonald)
8. Therapeutic Instrumental Music Playing in Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation
Lead: Catherine Haire MA/ DS
Co-Lead: Shannon Duane MA, Veronica Vuong MA
Student Assistant: Nicole Richard MA/DS, Bing Li MM/DS, Louise Ho MA
Collaborator Unit: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
(Patterson);
U of T Kinesiology
(Tremblay, J. Chen)
9. EEG-Based Brain Synchronization in Children with Neurodevelopmental Delays, Parent, and Therapist Triads
Lead: Kyu Rim Kang MM/DS
Student Assistant: Chantelle Whitehouse MM/DS
Collaborator Unit: Holland Bloorview Kids Hospital
(Chau)
10. Auditory Perception Training in Cochlear Implant Carriers
Lead: Anna Karpazis MM/DS
Co-Lead: Nicole Richard MA/DS, Stephanie Lavigne MA/DS, Chantelle Whitehouse MM/DS, Louise Ho MA
Collaborator Unit: Sunnybrook Hospital Cochlear Implant Research Program
11. Multisensory Time Cuing of Sequential Reaching Movements at Different Amplitudes.
Lead: Anna Karpazis MM/DS
Collaborator Unit: UofT Dept. of Kinesiology
(Tremblay)
12. Rhythmic Priming of Speech Comprehension in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
Co-Lead: Kyu Rim Kang MM/DS, Stephanie Lavigne MA/DS
Collaborator Unit: Ohio State University, Dept. of Speech and Hearing Science
(Lee)
13. Rhythmic Cuing of Oral Dynamics for Speech intelligibility in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
Lead: Corene Hurt Thaut PhD
Student Assistant: Chantelle Whitehouse MM/DS, Nicole Richard MA/DS
Collaborator Unit: UofT Dept. of Speech/Language Pathology
14. Therapeutic Instrumental Music Playing Enhances Auditory-Motor Brain Network Connectivity: MEG
Lead: Michael Thaut PhD
Collaborator Unit: University of Colorado Medical School, Dept. of Neurology (Buard)
15. Kinematic Optimization Strategies in Music Performance Training and Motor Recovery
Lead: Michael Thaut PhD, Aiyun Huang DMA, Eliot Britton PhD, Tristan Loria PhD
Collaborator Unit: Faculty of Music/Centre for the Study of Brain, Performance, and Creation in Music
16. Neural Basis of Pre-Dominant Priming in Musical Cadence Perception
Co-Lead: Daphne Tan PhD, Michael Thaut PhD
Collaborator Unit: Faculty of Music/Department of Theory