Dion Fung
E-mail:
- dion@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
- Office address:
- Institute Universitaire de
Gériatrie de Montréal
4565 Queen Mary, #RS727
- Office phone:
- (514) 340-2800 ext. 4705
- ICQ:
- 2769603
Welcome! I am an M.D/Ph.D. student at
McGill University. I have been doing my graduate
work in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Bloomfield Center for Aging,
Lady Davis Research Institute
(although my office is at the Institute Universitaire
de Gériatrie de Montréal), and in the McConnell Brain Imaging Center at the
Montréal Neurological Institute. My
thesis project is titled "Cognitive, Imaging, and Lesion Studies of Semantic
Memory", and my supervisor
is Dr. Howard Chertkow,
a cognitive neurologist. I have recently received my
M.D.C.M. degree (2004),
and now being very close to finishing my Ph.D. thesis for completion of the
joint-degree program.
* This page has not been
spiced up.
Please visit my non-academic homepage,
which contains many interesting work of mine (and a lot nicer than this webpage).
You can view my résumé, or download an up-to-date
short summary of it as an Acrobat PDF file for printing.
Research Interests
- To study the brain mechanisms
underlying various cognitive and motor functions in normal subjects and patients.
- Specifically I have been studying
semantic memory and language in normal subjects, Alzheimer's disease and frontal
lobe dementia patients. The Brain Imaging Center enables me to conduct experiments
using:
- Positron Emission Tomography
(PET)
- Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (fMRI)
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
(TMS)
Recent Publications
- T. D. Fung, H. Chertkow, S. Murtha,
C. Whatmough, L. Péloquin, V. Whitehead, F. D. Templeman. The spectrum of
category effects in object and action knowledge in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology, 15(3):371-379, 2001. (View
abstract/PDF)
- T. D. Fung, H. Chertkow, L. Verret,
L. Péloquin, D. Templeman. Semantic knowledge for verbs, nouns, and
abstract concepts in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Cognition,
47(1-2): 275-279, 2001.
- T. D. Fung, H. Chertkow, F. D.
Templeman. Pattern of semantic memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease. Brain and Cognition,
43(1-3): 200-205, 2000. (View
abstract)
Projects and Responsibilities
Favourite Links
Dion FUNG dion@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
created: 16 Feb, 1999
last modified:
24 September, 2003