Todd Girard
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director, Psychology
Lab Director, Brain Imaging and Memory Lab
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
todd.girard@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 552646
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Dr. Girard’s research interests focus on functions mediated by the medial temporal lobe, including primarily memory and spatial cognition. He is particularly interested in the applications of this study area and approach to understanding functional consequences of medial-temporal abnormalities in...
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Dr. Girard’s research interests focus on functions mediated by the medial temporal lobe, including primarily memory and spatial cognition. He is particularly interested in the applications of this study area and approach to understanding functional consequences of medial-temporal abnormalities in clinical conditions including schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through studies with clinical samples, research in his Brain Imaging and Memory lab also aims to inform and test theories of normal cognition. In this vein, Dr. Girard moved from being primarily a behavioural neuroscientist using rodent models of cognition (Graduate studies, U Waterloo) to that of a cognitive neuroscientist studying human conditions via neuropsychological, cognitive-science, and neuroimaging methods (Post-doctoral studies, Center for Addiction & Mental Health/ U Toronto). Dr. Girard and lab members have also been exploring the effects of recreational drug use on cognition, intelligence assessment, and the spatial and temporal nature of multimodal hallucinations accompanying sleep paralysis. The combination of these perspectives has made valuable contributions to current research approaches in the lab at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson).
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