Dennis Lab
The Hospital for Sick Children
Senior Scientist
Psychology
Research Institute
Senior Scientist
Neurosciences & Mental Health
University of Toronto
Professor
Surgery and Psychology
Professor
Institute Medical Sciences
Professor
School of Graduate Studies
Phone: 416-813-6658
e-mail: maureen.dennis@sickkids.ca
Brief Biography
Maureen Dennis is a neuropsychologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). She conducts clinical research into questions of brain-behaviour relations in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, children with traumatic brain injury, and adult survivors of neurodevelopmental disorders
Research Interests
- Neuropsychological function in developmental disorders of childhood
- Cognitive and brain function in adult survivors of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Brain imaging of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Late neurocognitive effects of acquired traumatic brain injury
- Social outcomes of acquired traumatic brain injury
- Attention and language in neurodevelopmental disorders and acquired brain injury
Research Activities
The old and the new: Supratentorial MR findings in Chiari II malformation.
Miller E, Widjaja E, Blaser S, Dennis M, Raybaud C:
Future Research
To relate cognitive processing to morphometric analyses of magnetic resonance brain imaging. Our particular interest in future research is in brain structure-cognitive function relations in neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Acquired attentional deficit secondary to CNS prophylactic treatment in childhood ALL: a pilot study.
Achievements
- Commonwealth Scholarship
- Benton Mid-Career Award, International Neuropsychology Society
- Fellow, American Psychological Association