Down Syndrome Research Foundation

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British Columbia, Canada V5B 4J8

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2009

• Poster "Increased Long-Range Alpha-Band Synchrony during short-term memory retention in children" Urs Ribary, Sam M. Doesburg, Anthony T. Herdman, Teresa Cheung, Hal Weinberg, Mario Liotti, Daniel Weeks & Ruth E. Grunau. Presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2009, San Francisco.
• Poster "Application of Multi-Source Minimal Variance Beamformers for Reconstruction of Correlated Neural Activity" Alexander Moiseev. Presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2009, San Francisco.
• Poster "Adults with Down syndrome show right hemisphere dominance during right handed voluntary movement" N. Virji-Babul, A. Moiseev, N. Moisseeva, W. Sun, D. Cheyne & U. Ribary. Presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2009, San Francisco.
• Poster "What do adults with Down syndrome know about friendship?" Kim Watt, Naznin Virji-Babul, Peter Johnson.

• Beg, M., Wong, S., Khan, A., Cheung, T., Virji-Babul, N., & Herdman, A. (2009). External landmark and head-shape-based functional data normalization. Computerized Medical Imaging And Graphics: The Official Journal Of The Computerized Medical Imaging Society, 33(7), 501-509.
• Doesburg, S, Ribary, U, Herdman, AT, Cheung, T, Weinberg, H, Liotti, M, Grunau, RE. MEG reveals gamma-band activation in prefrontal and visual cortex during short-term memory maintenance in children. J. Cogn. Neurosci., in press, 2009.
• Fawcett, S. and Peralejo, J. (2009). Speech in Individuals with Down syndrome. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education 16 109-116.
• Lam, M., Hodges, N., Virji-Babul, N., & Latash, M. (2009). Evidence for slowing as a function of index of difficulty in young adults with down syndrome. American Journal On Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, 114(6), 411-426.
• Virji-Babul, N., Moiseev, A., Cheung, T., Weeks, D., Cheyne, D., Ribary, U.  (2009)  Spatial-temporal dynamics of cortical activity underlying reaching and grasping: Implications for understanding the mirror neuron system.  Human Brain Mapping. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20853 (Published online July 10, 2009).
• Virji-Babul N and Weeks, D.  (2009) Perception, Action, Cognition: New Perspectives on Down syndrome.  International Review of Research on Mental Retardation (In Press)
  

• Cheung, T, Kavanagh, KL, Mosieev, A,  Majumder, S, and Ribary, U. Detection of Magnetic Nanoparticles using Sensor Noise for Magnetoencephalography Imaging. NeuroImage, 47, S140, 2009.
• Cheung, T, Kavanagh, KL, Majumder, S, Ribary, U, and Mosieev, A. Detection of superparamagnetic nanoparticles using magnetoencephalography. Meeting of the American Physical Society, submitted, 2009.heung, T., Liotti, M., Herdman, A., Van Snellenberg, J., Gaspar, J., “Time-Frequency Analysis of Response Inhibition Using Magnetoencephalography”, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Vancouver, BC (2009).
• Doesburg, S, Herdman, AT, Ribary, U, Cheung, T, Weinberg, H, Whitfield, MF, Synnes, A, Liotti, M, Weeks, D, Grunau, RE. Reduced gamma-band activation in prefrontal and visual cortex during visual short-term memory processing in children born very preterm. Pediatric Academic Societies, Platform Presentation, 2009.
• Doesburg, S, Herdman, AT, Ribary, U, Cheung, T, Moiseev, A, Weinberg, H, Whitfield, MF, Synnes, A, Liotti, M, Weeks, D, Grunau, RE. Children born very preterm show reduced gamma-band activation in prefrontal and visual cortex during visual short-term memory retention. ISPP Conference, submitted, 2009.
• Doesburg, S, Ribary, U, Herdman, AT, Cheung, T, Moiseev, A, Weinberg, H, Whitfield, MF, Synnes, A, Liotti, M, Weeks, D, Grunau, RE. Altered long-range phase synchronization and cortical activation in children born very preterm. Biomag2010, 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2010, submitted.
• Kishimoto, Y., Liu, J., Cheung, T., Parameswaran, A. M., Amaya, K., “Magnetic Dipole Localization Studies for Magnetoencephalography using Multiple Phase Inverse Analysis and the Experimental Verification”. Accepted for poster and publication at Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2009
• Kishimoto, Y., Cheung, T., Liu, J., Amaya, K., Parameswaran, A.M., “Brain Current Dipole Localization Studies for Magnetoencephalography using Multiple Phase Inverse Analysis”, Accepted for poster presentation at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference 2009
• Moiseeva, N,Moiseev, Virji-Babul, N. Spatial localization and coherence in right handed adults with Down syndrome: Evidence for ipsilateral and contralateral dominance.
• Ribary, U, Doesburg, S, Herdman, AT, Cheung, T, Mosieev, A, Weinberg, H, Liotti, M, Weeks, D, Grunau, RE. Increased long-range alpha-band phase synchronization during short-term memory retention in children. Neuroimage, 47, S144, 2009.
• Sun, W, Mosieev, A, Beg, F, Ribary, U, Virji-Babul, N. Cortical dynamics underlying the visual perception of stationary and moving stimuli. Biomag2010, 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2010, submitted.
• Virji-Babul, N, Mosieev, A, Cheyne, D, Ribary, U. Adults with Down syndrome show a right hemisphere dominance during self-paced voluntary movements of the right finger. NeuroImage, 47, S172, 2009.
  

2008

• Cheung, T., Wong, J., Parameswaran, A., Babul, A., Beg, F., Kavanagh, K.L., Jirasek, A., and Ribary, U. (2008).  A Scanner independent approach to modeling neural activity with a hardware phantom.  In R. Kakigi, K. Yokosawa, S. Kuriki (Eds.),  Biomagnetism : Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration  (pp. 89-91). Hokkaido : Hokkaido University Press.
• Cheung, T., Virji-Babul, N. (2008).  MEG analysis of emotional face processing in children with Down syndrome: A pilot study. Down Syndrome Quarterly, 10(2),  18-21.
• Galli, M., Rigoldi, C., Brunner, R., Virji-Babul, N., Albertini, G.  (2008).  Joint stiffness and gait pattern evaluation in children with Down syndrome. Gait and Posture  28(3), 502-6.
• Herdman, A.T., & Cheyne, D. (In Press). A Practical guide for MEG and beamforming. In  T. Handy (Ed.), Advances in ERP, EEG, and MEG Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Matthews, Q., Jirasek A., Virji-Babul, N., Cheung, T., Babul A.  (2008).  Investigation of a two-point maximum entropy regularization method for signal enhancement applied to magnetoencephalography data. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,  3(1), 78–87.
• Moiseev, A.  (2008).  Leakage correction procedure for improving beamformer spatial resolution.  In R. Kakigi, K. Yokosawa, S. Kuriki (Eds.), Biomagnetism : Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration  (pp. 89-91). Hokkaido : Hokkaido University Press. 
• Virji-Babul, N., Moiseev, A., Cheung, T., Weeks, D., Cheyne, D., and Ribary, U. (2008). Changes in Mu rhythm during action observation and execution in adults with Down syndrome: Implications for action representation. Neuroscience Letters,  436(2), 177-180.
• Virji-Babul, N., Latash, M.  (2008).  Postural control in children with Down’s syndrome.  In M. Hadders-Algra, E. Brogren Carlberg (Eds.),  Posture: A Key Issue in Developmental Disorders  (pp. 131-147).  New York : John Wiley & Sons. 

2007

• Cepeda, I.L., Grunau, R.E., Weinberg, H., Herdman, A.T., Cheung, T., Liotti, M., Amir, A., Synnes, A., Whitfield, M.  (2007).  Magnetoencephalography study of brain dynamics in young children born extremely preterm. International Congress Series, 1300, 99-102.
• Doesburg, S.M., & Ward, L.M. (2007).  Long-distance alpha-band MEG synchronization maintains selective attention.  In D. Cheyne, B. Ross, G. Stroink, H. Weinberg (Eds.),  New Frontiers in Biomagnetism (pp. 551-554). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Luus, B.M., Van Snellenberg, J.X., Liotti, M.  (2007).  To stop or not to stop: A high spatio-temporal resolution study of response inhibition using MEG. International Congress Series, 1300, 425-428.
• Roberts, L.E., Young, A., Bosnyak, D.J., Cheung, T., Lei, J.J., & Bell, K. (2007).  Auditory cortical development charted by transient and 40-hz steady state responses in typical children and in children with Down syndrome. In D. Cheyne, B. Ross, G. Stroink, H. Weinberg (Eds.),  New Frontiers in Biomagnetism (pp. 103-106). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Van Snellenberg, J.X., Whitman, J., McDonald, J.J., Liotti, M.  (2007).  High temporal resolution imaging of spatial working memory. International Congress Series, 1300, 433-436.
• Virji-Babul N, Cheung T, Weeks DJ, Kerns KA, & Shiffar M. (2007). Neural activity involved in the perception of human and meaningful object motion. NeuroReport, 18, 125-28.
• Virji-Babul, N., Cheung, T., Weeks, D., Herdman, A.T., Cheyne, D.  (2007).  Magnetoencephalographic analysis of cortical activity in adults with and without Down syndrome.  Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51(12), 982-7.
• Virji-Babul, N., Eichmann, A., Kisly, D., Down, J., Haslam, R.  (2007).  Use of health  care guidelines on Down syndrome by family physicians across Canada. Paediatrics and Child Health 12( 3), 179-183.

2006

• Fawcett, S., & Virji-Babul, N.  (2006).  Integrated therapy for stuttering and expressive syntax in Down syndrome: A case report.  International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 5(4), 391-396.
• Hovorka, R., & Virji-Babul, N.  (2006).  A preliminary investigation into the efficacy of virtual reality as a tool for rehabilitation for children with Down syndrome International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 5(4), 351-355.
• Iarocci, G., Virji-Babul, N., Reebye, P.  (2006).  The Learn at play program (LAPP): Merging family, developmental research, early intervention and policy goals for children with Down syndrome.   Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 3(1), 11–21.
• Jobling, A., Virji-Babul, N., Nichols, D.  (2006).  Children with Down syndrome: Discovering the joy of movement. The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 77(6), 34-38.
• Mazzoni, E.R., Southward, J.K., Temple, V.A., Rhodes, R.E., Virji-Babul, N., Purves, L.  (2006).  Effect of indoor rock climbing on self-efficacy and self-perceptions of children with special needs: A pilot project. ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 53(3-4), 10-16.
• Virji-Babul, N., Hovorka, R., Jobling, A.  (2006).  Playground dynamics: Perceptual-motor behaviour and peer interactions of young children with Down syndrome.  Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 12(1) Supp 2, 29-44.
• Virji-Babul, N., Kerns, K., Zhou, E., Kapur, A., Shiffrar, M. (2006).  Perceptual-motor deficits in children with Down syndrome: Implications for intervention. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 10(2), 74-82.