
Rachel Downey is a third year PhD student studying Clinical Psychology at Concordia University. Her research focuses on how different forms of interventions (i.e., executive function training, aerobic exercise, balance and coordination training) can improve multi-tasking behaviour in older adults. Specifically, she is interested in better understanding methods to improve cognitive-motor dual-task performance (i.e., walking while doing a cognitive task) and how individual characteristics, such as age, hearing capacity, and baseline cognitive and physical functioning affect training efficacy.
Sessions in which Rachel Downey participates
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Sessions in which Rachel Downey attends
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- Personalized fNIRS to monitor and reconstruct brain activity in realistic lifestyle conditions
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
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- Clinical translation of diffuse optical methods
- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 45 minutes
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- Cardiovascular fitness does not influence relationships among sex, cortical thickness and overweight in aging
- 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 15 minutes
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- Quantifying connectivity: Applications across the lifespan
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
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- Age Differences in Motor and 'Non-Motor' Brain Regions Correlate with Motor Function
- 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | 45 minutes
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10:15 AM
- Round Table / Q & A
- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | 15 minutes
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11:15 AM
- Lunch Break
- 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes

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- Targeted executive function training to improve mobility and cognition in older adults
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
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- Beyond the medicine cabinet: Non-pharmacological approaches to treat cognitive-motor disorders
- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 45 minutes
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2:00 PM
- Round Table / Q & A
- 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 15 minutes
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- Presentation of awards
- 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | 15 minutes
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- Closing Remarks
- 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | 15 minutes