Women’s Brain Health Research Fund
Monies raised through the Women’s Brain Health Research Fund will subsidize new initiatives in women’s brain health and aging, supporting women brain scientists and ensuring research is relevant and sensitive to women’s brain-health concerns. Donations at any level are welcome.
Dr. Tiffany Chow, Senior Clinician-Scientist in Baycrest's Sam & Ida Ross Memory Clinic
Dr. Norman Farb, Women of Baycrest Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest Senior Scientist and Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at University of Toronto
Dr. Tiffany Chow
Dr. Chow is the first noted neurologist supported by the Women’s Brain Health Research Fund!
Dr. Chow’s current research focuses on behavioral disturbances brought on by dementia and apathy, and how these symptoms relate to brain chemistry.
Authoring over 40 peer-reviewed papers and eight book chapters, Dr. Chow chairs the Education Committee for the Medical Advisory Committee of the Association for Frontotemporal Dementias, is a board member of the Alzheimer’s Society of Toronto and serves on the board as Head of the Medical Advisory Committee for Dancing with Parkinson’s.
Dr. Norman Farb
Dr. Farb is the Women of Baycrest Postdoctoral Fellow, currently working with Dr. Chow in the Frontotemporal Dementia Workshop. His research focuses on developing a mindfulness-based stress reduction program for family caregivers of patients with dementia.
Developing techniques for strengthening mindful awareness may be an important step in promoting stress-resilience in familial caregivers and in aiding the elderly in accepting the changes and challenges that are associated with aging.
Dr. Carol Greenwood
Dr. Greenwood, Baycrest senior scientist and professor in the department of nutritional sciences at University of Toronto focuses her research on the relationship between diet and brain function.
Dr. Greenwood’s research program carries two central themes – the first being diet as a risk factor for cognitive decline with aging and the second being the role of appetite disturbances as a contributor to malnutrition risk in institutionalized seniors with cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer Disease (AD).
Dr. Greenwood is the driving force behind “Mindfull“, the first brain health cookbook created by Women of Baycrest. Proceeds from the cookbook support research and innovation in women’s brain health.
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