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Dr. Brian Levine obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of South Florida and completed fellowships in clinical neuropsychology at McLean Hospital in Boston and cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute. He has published over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles and chapters on memory, frontal lobe function, traumatic brain injury, aging, dementia, and rehabilitation as well as  Mind and the Frontal Lobes: Cognition, Behavior, and Brain Imaging (2012, Oxford University Press) and Goal Management Training™ intervention for executive deficits (with Ian Robertson and Tom Manly). He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science and recipient of the 2015 International Neuropsychological Society's Benton award for mid-career research achievement. In 2025, Dr. Levine was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he received the Edith Kaplan Award from the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society. He has obtained over $10 million in grant funding as a principal investigator. Dr. Levine's trainees have achieved outstanding success in obtaining external funding and positions in academia, clinical, government, and industrial settings. Dr. Levine, a board-certified neuropsychologist, is clinically active, providing expert opinions in cases involving brain injury, dementia, and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Levine is frequently called upon to communicate research findings to health professionals and the general public. He has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBC radio, USA Today, Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, Wired, New York Magazine, and Discovery Health.For more information, see: LevineLab.ca 

Select Publications

• Sokolowski HM, Levine B. (2023). Common neural substrates of diverse neurodevelopmental disorders. Brain
• Palombo DJ, Sheldon S, Levine B. (2018). Individual differences in autobiographical memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(7), 583-597.
• Levine B, Svoboda EM, Hay JF, Winocur G, Moscovitch M. (2002). Aging and autobiographical memory: Dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. Psychology and Aging, 17, 677-689.
• Levine B, Robertson I, Clare L, Carter G, Wilson BA, Duncan J, Stuss DT, Robertson IH, Hong J. (2000). Rehabilitation of executive functioning: An experimental-clinical validation of Goal Management Training. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 299-312.

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