20 ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Distinguished neuroscientist Dr. Donna Rose Addis
was awarded the prestigious Canada 150 Research
Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging
to join the Rotman Research Institute.
Dr. Addis is the recipient of New Zealand's prestigious Prime Minister's
Emerging Scientist Prize, the youngest-ever fellow elected to the Royal
Society of New Zealand, and a role model for Indigenous scientists.
Dr. Addis' work uses advanced neuroimaging approaches to understand the
relationships among memory, imagination, aging, and depression. As one
of only 25 Canada 150 Research Chairs in the country, Dr. Addis will receive
$2.45 million over seven years to explore ways to improve a person's ability
to imagine the future, opening the door to interventions for depression
and mood disorders among older adults, and to enhance psychological
well-being during aging.
My people are
voyagers, wayfinders
and discoverers,
and I carry these
traditions
with me
into my science.
I'm grateful for and humbled
by this opportunity to take my
research in new and exciting
directions, here in Canada. Thus
far, my research has revealed the
brain networks that we use to
remember our past experiences
also allow us to imagine the
future. In Canada, I will have
access to advanced brain
imaging methods not available
yet in New Zealand to discover
the specific stages of the
imagination process and how
things are disrupted by memory
loss, aging, and depression."
– Dr. Addis, at the Canada 150
Research Chair announcement
in Ottawa, December 2017
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Top New Zealand
memory researcher
joins Baycrest
Dr. Addis celebrates the announcement of
the first Canada 150 Research Chair Awards
with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at
Parliament Hill in December 2017.
