Neuroscience Research Group

Current Members

 

Stan Koren

  • Creator of the DAC (digital-to-analogue converter) systems for generating complex magnetic fields.
  • Primary Interests: Complex and imaginary numbers; chaos systems; applications of quantum theory to macroscopic levels.
  • Current Research: Measurement and description of "the electromagnetic soup" in the contemporary living environment; development of new geometries for application of weak complex magnetic fields.
 

David Webster

  • Dr. David Webster is the Medical Director of Nuclear Cardiology and General Nuclear Medicine of the Sudbury Regional Hospital, President of the Ontario Nuclear Medicine Association, A Member of the Royal Quality Assurance Board for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Fully Qualified for interpretation of Positron Emission Tomography. One of his specialties is detecting and treating thyroid cancer. Dr. Webster's interest in consciousness has resulted in innovative integrations of philosophy, quantum mechanics, nuclear medicine, and brain function.
 

Rod O'Connor

  • Discoverer: alpha-1 receptor antagonist source of the synergism of hypothermia in seized restrained rats; geomagnetic intensity increments and sudden infant death.
  • Primary interests: SIDs, molecular biology of magnetic field effects, NO mechanisms, mitochondria and complex magnetic fields
  • H.B.Sc., Behavioural Neuroscience: Hypothermia following the synergism of lithium/pilocarpine-induced seizures, prazosin, and restraint in the rat.
  • M.Sc., Biology: Geomagnetic correlations with SIDs and experimental simulation in rats.
  • Ph.D. (at Cambridge): Molecular and Signalling Biology

Linda St-Pierre

  • Primary Interests: the biological bases of aggression; the effects of complex magnetic fields on long term potentiation (LTP); experimental induction of pseudocyesis; development of novel histological techniques; clinical neuropsychological assessment and interpretations; multivariate statistics
  • Current Research: Measurement and description of "the electromagnetic soup" in the contemporary living environment; development of new geometries for application of weak complex magnetic fields.

 

Quoc Hao Mach

  • Primary Interests: Artificial Intelligence; the relationship between biological systems, Darwinian selection, and computer-based algorithms; computer software

 

Don Hill

  • Previous Host of Tapestries on CBC Radio 1; producer/director of several television documentaries; investigative journalist.
  • Primary Interests: Integration of science and religion; isolation of the fundamental processes that mediate spiritual experiences and beliefs in human beings; sources of creativity.
 


Todd Murphy

  • Creator: Shakti technology; first to employ WEB access data bases and reporting systems for monitoring daily effects of transcerebral stimulation.
  • Primary Interests: Tibetan Buddhism; the use of complex magnetic fields applied through the brain to induce spiritual experiences and develop the individual's potential.
 

Lee Stewart

  • Primary Interests: limbic seizures; biochemical markers in the brain for seizures; behavioral correlates of limbic seizures; synaptic plasticity and regeneration.
  • H.B.Sc. Behavioural Neuroscience: Behavioural and neurohistological correlates of lithium-pilocarpine, seizure-induced brain damage.
  • M.Sc., Biology: Effects of post seizure treatment with ketamine, prasozin, or acepromazine on nociceptive thresholds, conditioned taste aversion, fear conditioning and multifocal brain injury.
  • Ph.D., Neuroscience (U.W.O.) Intracerebral chemical and histological changes associated with various models of epilepsy.

Robert Lafrenie

  • Laboratory Director, Tumour Biology Seminar Series Co-ordinator and Career Scientist, Regional Cancer Program of the Hôpital Régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, Ontario
  • Current Research: Cell adhesion altering cellular signals and gene expression, Prognostic indicators for women with breast cancer, Evaluation of alternate therapy approaches in the treatment and control of cancer including exposure to magnetic fields and treatment with various plant extracts.

 

Carly Buckner

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Regional Cancer Program of the Hôpital Régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, Ontario
  • Current Research: Evaluation of alternate therapy approaches in the treatment and control of cancer including exposure to specific, time-varying magnetic fields.

 

Blake Dotta

  • Action at a distance, magnetic fields, and the role of Biophotons (chemoluminescence) in cellular communication and behaviour. Identifying photon patterns that are emitted from various cell cultures and organisms under multiple magnetic field conditions.

 

Rafiq Rahemtulla

  • Primary Interests: Brain mast cells through development and experimental effects on their numbers, location and physiological state; non-brain tissue histology
  • Current Research: Using fractal dimension analysis as a dependent measure of experimental mouse tumours.

 

Mandy Scott

  • Primary Interests: Integration of science and spirituality. Using quantitative electroencephalograph (QEEG) to measure QEEG profile changes over time as individuals shift from baseline to various expanded states of awareness including meditation, visualization, and the use of psychic and/or spiritual tools. Neuroelectric fluctuations associated with so-called enlightened states.
  • Current Research: QEEG profile changes associated with learning remote viewing, and its accuracy over time.

 

Kevin Saroka

  • Primary Interests: Brain/electromagnetic field interactions and the quantitative electroencephalograph; Neurophysiological basis of the musical 'chill' phenomenon; Creativity.

 

Anabela Carraca

  • Primary Interests: Reiki non-local and local neurological correlates, the affect of thought on though and matter, entanglement, magnetic fields and paranormal phenomenon.

 

Mark Collins

  • Primary Interests: Studying consciousness, intention and the cross-validation of neurotheology technologies.

 

Constance Reed

  • Primary Interests: the modification of memory, including emotional memory, using complex electromagnetic fields, and implications for consciousnous; quantitative electroencephalographic correlates of electromagnetic field exposure; clinical applications of complex electromagnetic fields, including the treatment of pain and depression; clinical assessment and intervention.

 

Lukasz Karbowski

  • Primary Interests: Traumatic brain injury and Aging, Histology, inhibiting cancer using electromagnetic fields.
  • Current Research: Application of newly developed electromagnetic field patterns to different cancer cell lines.

 

Brendan Lehman

  • Primary Interests: Hypoxic conditions in animal and cell models, histological techniques, QEEG and video game play 
  • Current Research: Effects of hypoxic conditions on cancer and cell models using genetic markers, use of QEEG to measure states of consciousness during video game play

 

Paula Corradini

  • Primary interests: Clinical assessment and treatment methods, the use of both quantitative electroencephalographic technology and clinical assessments to more precisely diagnose and closed head injuries.
  • Current Research: The combined use of QEEG technology and weak complex electromagnetic fields as a means for treatment

 

Lucas Tessaro

  • Primary Interests: Integrating concepts and principles of the chemical, biological and physical sciences, as well as the social and humanitarian sciences to the brain bases of behaviour.
  • Undergraduate Research: Stabilization of Transfected MCF-7 and MB-231 Cell Lines; Harvesting of Lipid Biofuels from Algae
  • Current Research: Biological effects of EMFs on Planarian Regeneration, their Biochemical Correlates, and their Application to Human Tissues

 

Nirosha Murugan

  • Primary Interests: Neuropharmacology, molecular biology of magnetic field effects, neuroproteomics, regeneration.
  • Current Research: Synergistic effects of complex magnetic field and opioid antagonists on locomotor activity of Dugesia tigrina.
  • H.B.Sc Thesis, Behavioural Neuroscience: Histological Damage Correlates of Maze Proficiency and Conditioned Taste Aversion in Rattus Norvegicus with Histories of Seizures: Serial vs. Parallel Models of Memory

 

Joey Caswell

  • Primary Interests: Consciousness, meditation, psychokinesis, precognition, entanglement, magnetic fields
  • Current Research: Effects of intention on random event generator, and the geomagnetic and biophoton correlates; biophysical and neurophysiological models for parapsychology, mechanisms of psi interaction

 

Former Members

 

Christina Lavallee

  • Primary interests: Neural correlates of different types of meditation, and other altered states of consciousness
 

Bryce Mulligan

  • Primary interests: Bryce is interested in people, specifically in their interactions with one another, and in the impact of other (both human and non-human) stimuli on these people and said interactions. He is also interested in the ontogenetic and autobiographical histories of these same people.
  • Current Research: quantitative electroencephalography; geomagnetic and ionospheric correlates of brain activity; geopsychology; geobiology
 

Noa Gang

  • Primary Interests: Investigating physiological and biochemical changes at the levels of the cell and organism as they relate to the dynamics of intra- and extracellular water. Observing inter- and intraspecies DC potentials change during contact or activity and changes in bioelectric potentials during healing and regeneration of planarian worms, plants, and humans.

 

Samantha Kinoshameg

  • Primary interests: demyelinating diseases; seizure mechanisms.
 

Eric Tsang

  • Primary interests: emotions; treatment of emotions and depression with complex magnetic fields; electromagnetic correlates of consciousness; quantitative electroencephalographic activity.
 

Loren Martin

  • Primary interests: neuropharmacology, isolating optimal parameters for complex magnetic fields that produce analgesia.
 

Wudu Lado

  • Primary interests: neuropharmacology, brain injury and regeneration.
 

Mathieu Dupont

  • Primary interests: neurohistology; cytology following perinatal exposure to SIDs-simulated fields; mathematical generation of complex magnetic field patterns; interactions between complex magnetic fields and early exposures to geomagnetic activity.
 

Julie Charette

  • Primary interests: anoxia and hypoxia; early exposures to stress; memory; L-Name induced terads.
 

Nicolas Booth

  • Primary interests: consciousness; parapsychological phenomena; experimental simulation of "remote viewing".

 

Michael Galic

  • Primary interests: limbic seizure mechanisms, sex differences in seizure onset time; geomagnetic correlates; sucrose consumption and hormonal factors; changes in taste during pregnancy.
 

Jude Delparte

  • Primary Interests: addiction processes; use of complex magnetic fields to simulate addictive substances for purposes of rehabilitation.
  • H.B.Sc. Behavioural Neuroscience: Morphine consumption following exposures to burst-firing magnetic fields that produce analgesia.
 

Vivien Hoang

  • Primary interests: pharmacological interactions with closed head injuries; putative treatments for traumatic brain injuries; laboratory models of closed head injuries
 

Paul Whissell

  • Primary interests: Developmental Effects of Protein and Electromagnetic Fields, Nitric Oxide Modulation and Addiction.
 

Phil Evans

  • Primary interests: behavioural and morphological correlates of brain damage; therapeutic targets of brain damage from various etiologies; histology
 

Mathew Hunter

  • Primary interests: Epilepsy, quantitative electroencephalography; canonical correlations with brain structures; visuospatial processing and problem solving
 

Hsia-Pai Patrick Wu

  • Primary interests: TLE epileptogenic pathway under the lithium/pilocarpine level; effects of complex, weak magnetic fields on pain, consciousness, and paranormal experience
  • Current research: infrared and magnetic field effects on plants and invertebrates; biophysics
 

Jing Hu

  • Primary interests: inhibiting cancer with electromagnetic fields; melanoma; effects of nitric oxide and electromagnetic fields and their effects on cerebellar cell systems.
 

Saoirse Delay

  • Primary interests: schizophrenia and brain correlates; behavioral correlates of sleep deprivation
 

Natalie Lagace

  • Primary Interests: brain correlates of aggression; histomorphology
 

Karl Cheung

  • Primary Interests: brain histomorphology; stages of necrosis, apoptosis, and hiberation in neurons following mechanical impacts to the skull (closed head injuries)
 

Jason Martel

 

 

  • Primary Interests: D.C. potentials (brain-body) in human beings and changes with learnng; correlates between geomagnetic and lunar phase and shifts in whole-body d.c. potentials

 
 
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