UofT - Department of Psychiatry

Cheryl Grady @cheryl-grady ?

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  • Title

    Dr.
  • Name

    Cheryl Grady
  • Group

    Faculty
  • Rank

    Full Professor
  • Division1

    Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Institution

    Baycrest Centre
  • Address

    3560 Bathurst Street
  • City/Prov

    Toronto, ON
  • Postal Code

    M6A 2E1
  • Telephone

    416-785-2500
  • Extension

    3525
  • Email

    cgrady@rotman-baycrest.on.ca
  • Fax

    416-785-2862
  • Research Interests

    Dr. Cheryl L. Grady is a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. In her research she uses functional MRI to explore age-related changes in brain activity during cognitive tasks. This research has shown a considerable degree of plasticity in brain function over the lifespan. Older adults recruit more activity in the frontal lobes during memory tasks than do younger adults, and those older people who are able to engage these regions have the best memory. This indicates that there is some reorganization of brain activity with aging, which may promote the maintenance of memory ability in older adults. Current work is focused on the generality of these age differences across cognitive domains, and how cognitive rehabilitation training affects brain activity.

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