Alicia Wright
PERFORM Centre Concordia University
Sessions in which Alicia Wright attends
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Opening remarks
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:11:00am-11:05amThe Potential of Probiotics in Preventing Diet-Induced Mitochondria...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Cardiovascular fitness does not influence relationships among sex, cortical thickness and overweight in aging
- 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 15 minutes
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
- Student poster presentations
- 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:2:45pm-2:50pmThe Child Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST) - Normative...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Sleep and cognitive health: neural mechanisms and clinical perspectives
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Sleep is important for memory consolidation and cognitives performances during the day. There is increasing evidence that brain o...
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9:15 AM
9:15 AM
- Children, Teens, Sleep, and School
- 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | 45 minutes
- This talk will discuss sleep of children as they transition to teens in the context of research that examines associations between brain systems...
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10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:10:45am-10:50amThe Belief in Health Benefits of Digital Play Modulates Physiologic...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Sexual dimorphism in clock gene function in the striatum
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Circadian clock genes are widely expressed in mammalian brain. Despite considerable knowledge about the role of these genes in the generation of...
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2:45 PM
2:45 PM
- Student poster presentations
- 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:2:45pm-2:50pmLoneliness and sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitud...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- 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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9:15 AM
9:15 AM
- 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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10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:10:45am-10:50amMeasurement of Centre of Pressure using the Wii Balance Board in Older Adu...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- 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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1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- 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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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Rock your talk
- 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 2 hours
- An innovative workshop aimed to help attendees develop effective presentation skills. Colleen brings a unique actor’s perspective to communicati...
- Workshop
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1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- PERFORM multidisciplinary research
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join us to learn about the multidisciplinary research taking place at the PERFORM Centre from Concordia’s top scientists. The student scientific...
- Panel