Dr. Morris Freedman
Research Focus
My research is aimed at improving our understanding of the mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. A major focus is on the study of social cognition in these disorders. A second focus is on the development of cognitive assessment procedures in dementia. My colleagues and I have written a book on clock drawing that contains a large set of normative data and have developed a mental status examination, called the Behavioural Neurology Assessment, that is suitable for use by physicians in the office setting.This research will have implications for future studies in Alzheimer's disease related to determining the underlying causes, the development of refined diagnostic criteria, and treatment.
Select Publications
- Paterson TSE, Sivajohan B, Gardner S, Binns MA, Stokes K, Freedman M, Levine B, Troyer AK. (2022). Accuracy of a self-administered online neurocognitive assessment in detecting amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences, 77, 341-350.
- Beaton D, McLaughlin PM, Orange JB, Munoz DP, Mandzia J, Abrahao A, Binns MA, Black SE, Borrie M, Dowlatshahi D, Freedman M, Fischer CE, Finger EC, Frank A, Grimes D, Hassan A, Kumar S, Lang AE, Levine B,the ONDRI Investigators. (2022). Caregiving concerns and clinical characteristics across neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular disorders in the ONDRI study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37
- Alain C, Chow R, Lu J, Rabi R, Sharma V, Shen D, Anderson ND, Binns M, Hasher L, Yao D, Freedman M. (2022). Aging enhances neural activity in auditory, visual, and somatosensory cortices: The common cause hypothesis revisited. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 264-275.
- LaPlume AA, Paterson TSE, Gardner S, Stokes KA, Freedman M, Levine B, Troyer AK, Anderson ND. (2021). Interindividual and intraindividual variability in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) measured with an online cognitive assessment. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 43, 796-812.
