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The role of sex and gender factors in contributing to long-lasting post-concussion symptoms in young people. The neuronal circuits that govern emotional behaviour. Interventions for people living with psychiatric disorders who experience cognitive difficulties. Sex and gender considerations for treating memory-related disorders.

These are the research areas being explored by Eman Nishat, Liv Ansley-Engel, Orly Lipsitz and Quinn Pauli, PhD candidates and recipients of awarded by the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging.

Valued at $5,000, the fellowships are offered to 91³Ô¹Ï graduate students enrolled in the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN) or graduate programs in psychology, including those offered by the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science, the department of psychology at 91³Ô¹Ï Scarborough and the graduate department of psychological clinical science at 91³Ô¹Ï Scarborough. The fellowships aim to empower students to incorporate sex- and/or gender-based considerations and analysis into their research. 

The fellowship program is co-sponsored and funded by CPIN, the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women’s Brain Health and Aging, which is held by Gillian Einstein, a professor in the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science who is cross-appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Recipients are expected to provide an end-of-year synopsis of their research findings and participate in a graduate student-led conference on sex, gender and brain health.