Natalie Phillips, Université de Montréal

Research

Rehabilitation Age-Related Macular Degeneration Dementia Glaucoma Hearing Impairment Quasi-Experimental Study Reading Structural Mri

Latest papers

Effects of executive function training on balance and auditory-cognitive dual-task performance in adults with and without hearing loss.
PloS one · 2026
Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.
Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026
Connected speech profiles in mild cognitive impairment reflect global cognition.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025

All 16 publications

Latest funding

Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Vision Impairment Improve Cognitive Functioning?
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$100,000
The interactions of sensory, cognitive, and social factors and their influence on the health and quality of life of older Canadians
CIHR · 2016 · Principal investigator
$68,006

All 2 grants and awards

16 publications.

01

Effects of executive function training on balance and auditory-cognitive dual-task performance in adults with and without hearing loss.

Mohanathas N, Montanari L, Downey R, Li KZH, Pichora-Fuller MK, Bherer L, Lussier M, Phillips N, Wittich W, St-Onge N, Gagne JP, Campos JL

PloS one2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331276 PMID: 42054294

02

Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.

Calvo N, Phillips N, Bialystok E, Einstein G

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2026

DOI: 10.1002/dad2.70255 PMID: 41573422

03

Connected speech profiles in mild cognitive impairment reflect global cognition.

Pellerin S, Houzé B, Bedetti C, Phillips N, Brambati SM

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2025

DOI: 10.1177/13872877251329615 PMID: 40232260

04

Hearing loss is associated with decreased default-mode network connectivity in individuals with mild cognitive impairment.

Grant N, Phillips N

Neuroimage. Reports2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ynirp.2023.100188 PMID: 40567819

05

Development and validation of risk of CPS decline (RCD): a new prediction tool for worsening cognitive performance among home care clients in Canada.

Guthrie DM, Williams N, O'Rourke HM, Orange JB, Phillips N, Pichora-Fuller MK, Savundranayagam MY, Sutradhar R

BMC geriatrics2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-04463-3 PMID: 38041046

06

Associations Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Audiometric Hearing: Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Mick PT, Kabir R, Pichora-Fuller MK, Jones C, Moxham L, Phillips N, Urry E, Wittich W

Ear and hearing2023

DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001370 PMID: 37122082

07

The association between information and communication technologies, loneliness and social connectedness: A scoping review.

Petersen B, Khalili-Mahani N, Murphy C, Sawchuk K, Phillips N, Li KZH, Hebblethwaite S

Frontiers in psychology2023

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1063146 PMID: 37034933

08

Evaluation of a Telephone Version for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Establishing a Cutoff for Normative Data From a Cross-Sectional Study.

Klil-Drori S, Phillips N, Fernandez A, Solomon S, Klil-Drori AJ, Chertkow H

Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology2022

DOI: 10.1177/08919887211002640 PMID: 33858238

09

The Relationship Between Hearing and Mild Behavioral Impairment and the Influence of Sex: A Study of Older Adults Without Dementia from the COMPASS-ND Study.

Gosselin P, Guan DX, Chen HY, Pichora-Fuller MK, Phillips N, Faris P, Smith EE, Ismail Z

Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports2022

DOI: 10.3233/adr-210045 PMID: 35360276

10

Effect of Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Macular Degeneration on Cognitive Functioning: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Pre-Post Intervention Study.

Wittich W, Pichora-Fuller MK, Johnson A, Joubert S, Kehayia E, Bachir V, Aubin G, Jaiswal A, Phillips N

JMIR research protocols2021Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/19931 PMID: 33704074

Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Vision Impairment Improve Cognitive Functioning?

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Wittich, Walter; Johnson, Aaron P; Joubert, Sven A; Kehayia, Evanthia; Phillips, Natalie A; Pichora-Fuller, Margaret K

Keywords: Age-Related Macular Degeneration; Dementia; Glaucoma; Hearing Impairment; Quasi-Experimental Study; Reading; Rehabilitation; Structural Mri; Visual Cortex; Visual Impairment

$100,000

The interactions of sensory, cognitive, and social factors and their influence on the health and quality of life of older Canadians

Principal investigatorCIHR2016Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data

Principal investigators: Wittich, Walter; Lemke-Kalis, Ulrike; Guthrie, Dawn M; Mick, Paul; Phillips, Natalie A; Pichora-Fuller, Margaret K

Keywords: Aging; Cognition; Dual Sensory Impairment; Health Interventions; Hearing; Prevalence; Quality Of Life; Rehabilitation; Social Participation; Vision

$68,006

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

Psychology
Medicine
Ecole d'optométrie
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Psychiatry
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Christina Wolfson

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2010

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Rehabilitation Dear Professor Phillips, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Effects of executive function training on balance and auditory-cognitive dual-task performance in adults with and without hearing loss." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Vision Impairment Improve Cognitive Functioning?" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

Natalie Phillips

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Effects of executive function training on balance and auditory-cognitive dual-task performance in adults with and without hearing loss.

Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.

Connected speech profiles in mild cognitive impairment reflect global cognition.

Hearing loss is associated with decreased default-mode network connectivity in individuals with mild cognitive impairment.

Development and validation of risk of CPS decline (RCD): a new prediction tool for worsening cognitive performance among home care clients in Canada.

Associations Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Audiometric Hearing: Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

The association between information and communication technologies, loneliness and social connectedness: A scoping review.

Evaluation of a Telephone Version for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Establishing a Cutoff for Normative Data From a Cross-Sectional Study.

The Relationship Between Hearing and Mild Behavioral Impairment and the Influence of Sex: A Study of Older Adults Without Dementia from the COMPASS-ND Study.

Effect of Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Macular Degeneration on Cognitive Functioning: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Pre-Post Intervention Study.

Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Vision Impairment Improve Cognitive Functioning?

The interactions of sensory, cognitive, and social factors and their influence on the health and quality of life of older Canadians

Frequent collaborators

Natalie Phillips

Natalie Phillips

Walter Wittich

Zahinoor Ismail

Howard Chertkow

Simon Duchesne

Walter Wittich

Charlotte Jones

Louis Bherer

Olga Theou

Paul Mick

Aaron Johnson

Christina Wolfson

Rinku Sutradhar

Howard Chertkow

Gillian Einstein

Lindsay Wallace

Sylvie Belleville

Mark Speechley

Manuel Montero Odasso

Howard Chertkow

Andrew Lim

Sven Joubert

Sylvie Belleville

Louis Bherer

Louis Bherer

Gillian Einstein

Karen Li

Howard Bergman

Christina Wolfson