Gordon Winocur, University of Toronto

Research

Aging Brain-Damage Episodic And Semantic Memory Frontal Lobe Functional (And Structural) Neuroimaging Medial Temporal Lobe (Hippocampus)Memory And Cognition Recent And Remote Memory

Latest papers

Episodic Memory and Recollection Network Disruptions Following Chemotherapy Treatment in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Review of Neuroimaging Findings.
Cancers · 2022
Reminders activate the prefrontal-medial temporal cortex and attenuate forgetting of event memory.
Hippocampus · 2021
Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Hippocampal Neurogenesis: A Review of Physiological Mechanisms and Interventions.
International journal of molecular sciences · 2021 · senior author

All 63 publications

Latest funding

Limiting late effects following pediatric cranial radiation
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$994,500
Preventing cognitive and functional decline among seniors at risk: A community-based randomized controlled trial.
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$1,191,091
Maintaining independence in everyday life among seniors with subjective cognitive complaints.
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 6 grants and awards

63 publications.

01

Episodic Memory and Recollection Network Disruptions Following Chemotherapy Treatment in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Review of Neuroimaging Findings.

Bradley-Garcia M, Winocur G, Sekeres MJ

Cancers2022

DOI: 10.3390/cancers14194752 PMID: 36230678

02

Reminders activate the prefrontal-medial temporal cortex and attenuate forgetting of event memory.

Sekeres MJ, Moscovitch M, Winocur G, Pishdadian S, Nichol D, Grady CL

Hippocampus2021

DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23260 PMID: 32965760

03

Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Hippocampal Neurogenesis: A Review of Physiological Mechanisms and Interventions.

Sekeres MJ, Bradley-Garcia M, Martinez-Canabal A, Winocur G

International journal of molecular sciences2021Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/ijms222312697 PMID: 34884513

04

Reminders reinstate context-specificity to generalized remote memories in rats: relation to activity in the hippocampus and aCC.

Sekeres MJ, Moscovitch M, Grady CL, Sullens DG, Winocur G

Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/lm.050161.119 PMID: 31843976

05

Hippocampal and Retrosplenial Goal Distance Coding After Long-term Consolidation of a Real-World Environment.

Patai EZ, Javadi AH, Ozubko JD, O'Callaghan A, Ji S, Robin J, Grady C, Winocur G, Rosenbaum RS, Moscovitch M, Spiers HJ

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2019

DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz044 PMID: 30916744

06

The hippocampus is critical for value-based decisions guided by dissociative inference.

Gilboa A, Sekeres M, Moscovitch M, Winocur G

Hippocampus2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23050 PMID: 30417959

07

Prior knowledge modulates the neural substrates of encoding and retrieving naturalistic events at short and long delays.

Bonasia K, Sekeres MJ, Gilboa A, Grady CL, Winocur G, Moscovitch M

Neurobiology of learning and memory2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.02.017 PMID: 29474955

08

Multiple Scales of Representation along the Hippocampal Anteroposterior Axis in Humans.

Brunec IK, Bellana B, Ozubko JD, Man V, Robin J, Liu ZX, Grady C, Rosenbaum RS, Winocur G, Barense MD, Moscovitch M

Current biology : CB2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.016 PMID: 29937352

09

PAN-811 prevents chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment and preserves neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult rats.

Jiang ZG, Winocur G, Wojtowicz JM, Shevtsova O, Fuller S, Ghanbari HA

PloS one2018

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191866 PMID: 29370277

10

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-induced Cognitive Impairment in a Transgenic Model of Breast Cancer.

Winocur G, Berman H, Nguyen M, Binns MA, Henkelman M, van Eede M, Piquette-Miller M, Sekeres MJ, Wojtowicz JM, Yu J, Zhang H, Tannock IF

Neuroscience2018First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.10.048 PMID: 29113931

Limiting late effects following pediatric cranial radiation

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Project Grant

Principal investigators: Nieman, Brian J

Keywords: Brain Development; Brain Tumours; Childhood Cancer; Cognitive Outcomes; Cranial Radiation; Late Effects; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

$994,500

Preventing cognitive and functional decline among seniors at risk: A community-based randomized controlled trial.

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Dawson, Deirdre R

Keywords: Aging; Everyday Activities; Executive Function; Intervention; Randomized Controlled Trial; Subjective Cognitive Decline

$1,191,091

Maintaining independence in everyday life among seniors with subjective cognitive complaints.

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Dawson, Deirdre R

Keywords: Aging; Everyday Activities; Executive Function; Intervention; Randomized Controlled Trial; Subjective Cognitive Complaints

$100,000

Human studies on the neuropsychology and cognitive/behavioural neuroscience of memory and its disorders.

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris; Winocur, Gordon

Keywords: Aging; Brain-Damage; Episodic And Semantic Memory; Frontal Lobe; Functional (And Structural) Neuroimaging; Medial Temporal Lobe (Hippocampus); Memory And Cognition; Recent And Remote Memory

$924,841

Role of adult neurogenesis in learning and memory

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Wojtowicz, Jan M

Keywords: Adult Neurogenesis; Aging; Brain Plasticity; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry; Learning And Memory

$793,105

Behavioural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Recent and Remote Spatial Memory in Humans

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Moscovitch, Morris; Rosenbaum, Rachel S

Keywords: Amnesia; Brain Lesions; Dementia; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Hippocampus; Parietal Lobes; Recent Spatial Memory; Remote Spatial Memory

$775,731

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Rotman Research Institute
Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Psychology
Medicine
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Anesthesia
Rehabilitation Science
Other

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Morris Moscovitch

Rotman Research Institute

34 shared papers, latest 2021

Brian Levine

Rotman Research Institute

5 shared papers, latest 2009

Deirdre Dawson

Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

4 shared papers, latest 2014

Carol Greenwood

Department of Nutritional Sciences

1 shared papers, latest 2013

Anne Hunt

Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Malcolm Binns

Biostatistics Division

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Sue Becker

Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

1 shared papers, latest 2012

Julie Richardson

Rehabilitation Science

1 shared papers, latest 2014

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Episodic Memory and Recollection Network Disruptions Following Chemotherapy Treatment in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Review of Neuroimaging Findings.

Reminders activate the prefrontal-medial temporal cortex and attenuate forgetting of event memory.

Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Hippocampal Neurogenesis: A Review of Physiological Mechanisms and Interventions.

Reminders reinstate context-specificity to generalized remote memories in rats: relation to activity in the hippocampus and aCC.

Hippocampal and Retrosplenial Goal Distance Coding After Long-term Consolidation of a Real-World Environment.

The hippocampus is critical for value-based decisions guided by dissociative inference.

Prior knowledge modulates the neural substrates of encoding and retrieving naturalistic events at short and long delays.

Multiple Scales of Representation along the Hippocampal Anteroposterior Axis in Humans.

PAN-811 prevents chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment and preserves neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult rats.

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-induced Cognitive Impairment in a Transgenic Model of Breast Cancer.

Limiting late effects following pediatric cranial radiation

Preventing cognitive and functional decline among seniors at risk: A community-based randomized controlled trial.

Maintaining independence in everyday life among seniors with subjective cognitive complaints.

Human studies on the neuropsychology and cognitive/behavioural neuroscience of memory and its disorders.

Role of adult neurogenesis in learning and memory

Behavioural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Recent and Remote Spatial Memory in Humans

Frequent collaborators

Morris Moscovitch

Gordon Winocur

Asaf Gilboa

Cheryl Grady

Brian Levine

Deirdre Dawson

Sandra Black

Haibo Zhang

Clement Hamani

Micheline Piquette-Miller

Carol Greenwood

Anne Hunt

Malcolm Binns

Sue Becker

Julie Richardson