Lisa Koski, PhD
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Health Outcomes
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Research focuses on looking at changes that occur in the brain during rehabilitation and recovery after stroke and multiple sclerosis in order to understand how and under what conditions recovery occurs so that therapeutic interventions can be targeted appropriately. Evaluation of cognitive impairments in older patients who are experiencing memory problems to develop neuropsychological tests that can guide our understanding and treatment of memory problems in the elderly is also a focus of research.
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dementia geriatrics stroke rehabilitation recovery memory neuropsychology neurophysiology neuroscience neuroimaging transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Royal Victoria Hospital Publications:
Konsztowicz S, Xie H, Higgins J, Mayo N, Koski L. Development of a method for quantifying cognitive ability in the elderly through adaptive test administration. International Psychogeriatrics, 4, 1–8; 2011
Koski L, Xie H, Konsztowicz S. Improving precision in the quantification of cognition using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and the Mini-Mental State Examination. International Psychogeriatrics, 1, 1–9; 2011
Koski L, Brouillette M-J, Lalonde R, Hello B, Wong E, Tsuchidab A, Fellows LK. Computerized testing augments pencil-and-paper tasks in targeting HIV-associated mild cognitive impairment. HIV Medicine. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2010.00910.x; 2011
Xie H, Mayo N, Koski L. Identifying and characterizing trajectories of cognitive change in older persons with mild cognitive impairment. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 31(2), 165–172; 2011
Thompson B, Mansouri B, Koski L, Hess RF. From motor cortex to visual cortex: the application of non-invasive brain stimulation to amblyopia. Developmental Psychobiology. Published online: DOI: 10.1002/dev.20509; 2010
Koski L, Xie H, Konsztowicz S, Tetteh R. French-English cross-linguistic comparison and diagnostic impact of the AD-8 dementia screening questionnaire in a geriatric assessment clinic. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 29, 265–274; 2010
Raux M, Xie H, Similowski T, Koski L. Facilitatory conditioning of the supplementary motor area in humans enhances the cortico-phrenic responsiveness to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Applied Physiology, 108, 39–46; 2010
Koski L, Xie H, Finch L. Measuring Cognition in a Geriatric Outpatient Clinic: Rasch Analysis of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 22, 151–160; 2009
Thompson B, Aaen-Stockdale C, Koski L, Hess RF. A double dissociation between striate and extrastriate visual cortex for pattern motion perception revealed using rTMS. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3115–3126; 2009
Thompson B, Mansouri B, Koski L, Hess R. Brain plasticity in the adult: Modulation of function in amblyopia with rTMS. Current Biology, 18, 1067–1071; 2008
