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Morris Freedman

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Morris Freedman

Professor

Department of Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 BRAIN), most recently in 2015.

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Publications

1,928

Citations

128

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Research

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Latest papers

The Relationship between Age and Cognitive Subtypes of Alzheimer Syndrome and Related Dementias.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2026
Neural features underlying high-accuracy classification of amnestic mild cognitive impairment using multi-sensory-evoked potentials.
GeroScience · 2026
Disease-modifying effects of TMEM106B in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal GENFI study.
Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025

All 63 publications

Latest funding

Tracing Memory in Aging: A Longitudinal Study of the Dimensions of Cognitive and Neural Trajectories
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$795,601
Leveraging Advances in Human Electrophysiology in Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$378,676
Genetic Frontotemporal Dementia Initiative (GENFI) in Canada: Combined Investigation of Clinical, MRI, Genomic, and Epigenomic Biomarkers
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,128,375

All 10 grants and awards

63 publications.

The Relationship between Age and Cognitive Subtypes of Alzheimer Syndrome and Related Dementias.

Seixas-Lima B, Binns M, Black SE, Freedman M, Kumar S, Lahiri D, Roncero CT, Strother S, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Chertkow H

Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2026

DOI: 10.1159/000547124 PMID: 40587959

Neural features underlying high-accuracy classification of amnestic mild cognitive impairment using multi-sensory-evoked potentials.

Zhang L, Binns M, Chow R, Rabi R, Anderson ND, Lu J, Freedman M, Alain C

GeroScience2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1007/s11357-025-01799-z PMID: 40696071

Disease-modifying effects of TMEM106B in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal GENFI study.

Mirza SS, Pasternak M, Paterson AD, Rogaeva E, Tartaglia MC, Mitchell SB, Black SE, Freedman M, Tang-Wai D, Bouzigues A, Russell LL, Foster PH, Ferry-Bolder E, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Zetterberg H, Sogorb-Esteve A, van Swieten J, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Gerhard A, Levin J, Sorbi S, Otto M, Pasquier F, Ducharme S, Butler C, Le Ber I, Finger E, Rowe JB, Synofzik M, Moreno F, Borroni B, Rohrer JD, Masellis M, GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI)

Brain : a journal of neurology20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaf019 PMID: 40260680

A Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Assessment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment, Cerebrovascular Disease and Parkinson Disease.

Rashidi-Ranjbar N, Churchill NW, Black SE, Kumar S, Tartaglia MC, Freedman M, Lang A, Ramirez J, Saposnik G, McLaughlin PM, Symons S, Pollock BG, Rajji TK, Borrie M, Masellis M, Pasternak SH, Frank A, Seitz D, Ismail Z, Tang-Wai DF, Scott CJM, Dowlatshahi D, Hassan A, Munoz DG, Fornazzari L, Fischer CE, Schweizer TA

International journal of geriatric psychiatry20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/gps.70075 PMID: 40246706

A vision transformer approach for fully automated and scalable dementia screening using clock drawing test images.

Bone MB, Freedman M, Black SE, Felsky D, Kumar S, Pugh B, Strother SC, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Buchsbaum BR

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/dad2.70171 PMID: 41001422

Association between vascular risk factors burden and neurodegenerative diseases: results from ONDRI.

Montero-Odasso M, Pieruccini-Faria F, Black SE, Binns MA, Freedman M, Grimes DA, Hegele RA, Haddad SH, Lang AE, Masellis M, Mandzia J, Beaton D, Ramirez J, Roberts AC, McIlroy W, Pasternak SH, Zinman L, Abrahao A, Swartz RH, Symons S, Tan B, Tartaglia C, Son S, Sakurai R, Dilliott A, Cornish BF, Hezam A, Strong MJ, ONDRI Investigators, Bartha R

Journal of neurology20253 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00415-025-13152-7 PMID: 40413670

Delineating the Effects of Alcohol Use on Cognition in Individuals With Neurocognitive Disorders.

Cuperfain AB, Black SE, Fostoc M, Freedman M, Ma C, Rajji T, Strother S, Tang-Wai DF, Tartaglia MC, Kumar S, Research TC

The Journal of clinical psychiatry20251 citations

DOI: 10.4088/jcp.24m15738 PMID: 40767839

Red flags for remote cognitive diagnostic assessment: A Delphi expert consensus study by the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Friedman NH, Hallot S, Itzhak I, Camicioli R, Henri-Bhargava A, Pettersen JA, Lee L, Fisk JD, McLaughlin P, Khanassov V

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/13872877251338186

Association of plasma biomarkers with cognition, cognitive decline, and daily function across and within neurodegenerative diseases: Results from the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative

Sanchez E, Wilkinson T, Coughlan G, Mirza S, Baril A, Ramirez J, Binns MA, Black SE, Borrie M, Dilliott AA

Alzheimer's and Dementia202464 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/alz.13560

Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition.

Freedman M, Binns MA, Meltzer JA, Hashimi R, Chen R

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior202416 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.016 PMID: 38065765

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Morris Freedman

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The Relationship between Age and Cognitive Subtypes of Alzheimer Syndrome and Related Dementias.

Neural features underlying high-accuracy classification of amnestic mild cognitive impairment using multi-sensory-evoked potentials.

Disease-modifying effects of TMEM106B in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal GENFI study.

A Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Assessment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment, Cerebrovascular Disease and Parkinson Disease.

A vision transformer approach for fully automated and scalable dementia screening using clock drawing test images.

Association between vascular risk factors burden and neurodegenerative diseases: results from ONDRI.

Delineating the Effects of Alcohol Use on Cognition in Individuals With Neurocognitive Disorders.

Red flags for remote cognitive diagnostic assessment: A Delphi expert consensus study by the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Association of plasma biomarkers with cognition, cognitive decline, and daily function across and within neurodegenerative diseases: Results from the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative

Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition.

Frequent collaborators

Sandra Black

Mario Masellis

Malcolm Binns

Sanjeev Kumar

Elizabeth Finger

Corinne Fischer

Tarek Rajji

Richard Swartz

Andrew Frank

Stephen Strother

Michael Borrie

Lorne Zinman

David Grimes

Stephen Pasternak

Ekaterina Rogaeva

Dariush Dowlatshahi

Gustavo Saposnik

Jennifer Mandzia

Dar Dowlatshahi

Dallas Seitz

Joel Ramirez

J.B. Orange

Christopher Hudson

I. Naglie

Sean Symons

Chris Hudson

Aaron Izenberg

Wendy Hatch

Dalia Rotstein