
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
- In this talk, we will present our recent developments in the context of Personalized functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) investigatio...
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- Clinical translation of diffuse optical methods
- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) are two established techniques which allow monitoring brain health ...
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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
- Regional brain function is determined by its local structure and connectivity. I will present work from our lab that strives to quantify connect...
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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
- With aging, there are declines in sensorimotor functions such as fine motor control, gait and balance. Moreover, the largest age differences in ...
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10:15 AM
- Round Table / Q & A
- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | 15 minutes
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- 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
- Safe mobility is vital to the functional independence of older adults. Executive functions such as working memory updating and dividing attention p...
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- Beyond the medicine cabinet: Non-pharmacological approaches to treat cognitive-motor disorders
- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Disorders of gait and cognition are central to many age related conditions and diseases. While there are medications available to treat some of ...
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- 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