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Sunnybrook Research Institute

Nancy Lobaugh PhD

Associate Scientist

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room S6 51
Toronto ON
M4N 3M5


Phone: 416-480-6100, ext. 1620
Fax: 416-480-5714

Education:

  • B.Sc., 1979, Psychology, Ohio State University, USA
  • PhD, 1986, Psychology (Biopsychology), University of Texas, USA

Appointments and Affiliations:

Research Focus:

  • Brain structure-function relations

Research Summary:

My research uses a lifespan approach to understand how alterations in brain anatomy modify basic psychological processes such as attention, learning and memory. Currently there are two major components to this work. The first focuses on brain-behaviour relations in development, and the second on understanding the relations between brain structure, brain function and behaviour in aging.

As this work spans multiple levels of analysis, we use complementary measures of brain function such as event-related potentials (ERPs), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We then use MRI to measure the size of important brain regions, and are currently placing special emphasis on a new MRI method that assesses the integrity of brain white matter. The imaging data is then combined with our behavioural results to demonstrate how the normal nervous system processes and integrates sensory information.

Selected Publications:

See current publications list at PubMed.

  1. Lobaugh, N.J., West, R., & McIntosh, A.R. 2001. Spatio-temporal analysis of task-related differences in event-related potential data with partial least squares analysis. Psychophysiology, 38:517-530.
  2. Lobaugh, N.J., Caldwell, C.B. Black, S.E., Leibovitch, F.S.. & Swartz, R.H. 2000. Three brain SPECT region-of-interest templates in the elderly: Normative values, hemispheric asymmetries, and a comparison of single- and multi-head cameras. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 41:45-56.
  3. McIntosh, A.R., Rajah, M.N., & Lobaugh, N.J. 1999. Neural interactions of prefrontal cortex related to awareness. Science. 284(5419):1531-1533

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