Levine Lab
Dr. Brian Levine is a neuropsychologist interested in the function and dysfunction of large-scale neural systems as expressed in complex human behaviors, including episodic and autobiographical memory, self-regulation, and goal management. Much of his research concerns syndromes seen in patients with focal brain lesions due to strokes and tumors, traumatic brain injury, dementia, and psychiatric disorders, although he also studies healthy young and older adults. Dr. Levine is particularly interested in the real-life deficits faced by patients with brain disease. As these deficits are often not readily apparent in standard neuropsychological or neurological examinations, Dr. Levine uses novel assessment techniques, coupled with multimodal neuroimaging (structural and functional MRI, EEG, and MEG) in his research.Recent Publications
Svoboda, E.M. & Levine, B. (2009). The effects of rehearsal on the functional neuroanatomy of episodic autobiographical and semantic memory: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 3073-3082.
Levine, B., Svoboda, E.M., Turner, G.T., Mandic, M. & Mackey, A. (2009). Behavioral and functional neuroanatomical correlates of autobiographical memory in isolated retrograde amnesic patient M.L. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2188-2196.
McKinnon, M. C., Nica, E. I., Sengdy, P., Kovacevic, N., Moscovitch, M., Freedman, M., Miller, B. L., Black, S. E., & Levine, B. (2008) Autobiographical memory and patterns of brain atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1839-1853.
Turner, G.R. & Levine, B. (2008). Augmented neural activity during executive control processing following diffuse axonal injury. Neurology, 71, 812-818.
Levine. B., Kovacevic, N., Nica, E.I., Gao, F., Schwartz, M.L. & Black, S.E. (2008). The Toronto traumatic brain injury study: Injury severity and quantified MRI. Neurology, 70, 771-778.
Levine B., Stuss D.T., Winocur G., Binns M.A., Fahy L., Mandic M., Bridges K. & Robertson I.H. (2007). Cognitive rehabilitation in the elderly: effects on strategic behavior in relation to goal management. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 143-152.