Funded research
PERFORM regularly holds researcher retreats and launches special funding calls to generate and foster interdisciplinary health research programs.
Research projects funded by the PERFORM Centre
2021
Ageism in the workplace: Physical, cognitive, and social-contextual factors contributing to self-efficacy and creativity in a simulated work task
Linda Dyer, Yong Zeng, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Véronique Pepin, Darla Fortune, Karen Li, Janis Timm-Bottos
Determining the role of obesity in breast cancer
Sylvia Santosa, Alisa Piekney, Elena Kuzmin
Effects of noise on cognitive performance and health in offices
Joonhee Lee, Karen li, Mohamed Ouf, Emily Coffey, Simon Bacon, Marta Kersten-Oertel
Effects of ovarian hormones and oral contraceptives on female memory bias
Dajana Vuckovic, Wayne Brake
Improving human emotional/mental health in the workplace through Smart Indoor Environment
Yong Zeng, Hua Ge, Dr. Karen Li, and Dr. Lin Yang
2020
[18F]-fluoroethyl-tyrosine positron emission tomography (and open-skull ultrasound brain imaging): Mapping invasion of central nervous system tumors within the brain to enable development of an image-based surgery guidance system
Jean-Paul Soucy, Louis Collins
A pilot study of candidate PET imaging agents for DNA methylation
Gassan Massarweh, Linda Booij and Dr. Jean-Paul Soucy
A web-based dyadic intervention to promote healthy eating and physical activity among obese older adults couples
Jean-Philippe Gouin, Tamara Cohen, Nicole Alberts, Mylène Aubertin-Leheudre, Nizar Bouguila
CerebStimNet: Modulating brain network rhythms through cerebellar stimulation in motor control: A translational project
Richard Courtemanche, Christopher Steele, Christophe Grova
Cinematic probing of brain function: Exploring the cortico-hippocampal network as a biomarker for detecting neurological abnormalities
Najmeh Khalili-Mahani, Andrew Chapman, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Christophe Grova
Continuous testing of neuroimaging results across pipelines and datasets: Application to hearing loss associations with brain structure
Jean-Baptiste Poline, Tristan Glatard, Natalie Phillips
Development of an innovative smartphone application based on the new Canada’s Food Guide
Tamara Cohen, Lisa Kakinami, Jean-Philippe Gouin, Nizar Bouguila
Low carbohydrate-high protein diets: Does protein source affect lipid metabolism and dietary safety?
Dajana Vuckovic, Sylvia Santosa
Personalized fNIRS and multimodal wearable sensors to investigate older and younger adults during a cognitive-motor dual-task
Christophe Grova, Karen Li
Searching for new multimodal biomarkers of concussion in university athletes: A longitudinal study
Christophe Grova, Alain Ptito, Boris Bernhardt
Multidimensional quantification of white matter microstructure in health and Alzheimer’s Disease: Elucidating the links between structure, connectivity, behaviour, and disease
Yasser Iturria-Medina, Christopher Steele
2019
Effect of combined motor control and strengthening exercise on paraspinal muscle morphology and function in chronic low back pain
Maryse Fortin, Geoffrey Dover, Richard DeMont, Véronique Pepin
Of brain and body: An investigation of their interaction in obesity
Claudine Gauthier, Sylvia Santosa