The global leader in aging and brain health.
 
For nearly a century, Baycrest has continually adapted to changing needs to remain at the forefront of seniors’ care and brain research. Today, Baycrest is recognized as the global leader in innovative care delivery and cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience. Fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is among the world’s most respected academic health sciences centres focused on the needs of seniors and the aging population.
 
Tomorrow’s journey of aging is being created today at Baycrest. Our dynamic organization is built on three key pillars that work together to make Baycrest the world’s leading authority on aging and brain health:
 
Baycrest Health Sciences offers a full, state-of-the-art continuum of hospital, residential and community health care and wellness services. Our focus is on improving care and quality of life for frail, vulnerable older adults; conducting cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience; and educating, training and sharing our knowledge in leading practices in geriatric care and aging solutions.
 
Baycrest Innovation Engine develops, evaluates and transfers new practices, knowledge and products from our health sciences platform to the commercialization arm responsible for bringing products to market, and has a system-wide impact on care delivery, quality of life and health and wellness for an aging population. It consists of three key areas: the Innovation Technology & Design Laboratory; the Centre for Brain Fitness; and, the Kunin Lunenfeld Applied and Evaluative Research Unit Research Unit.
 
Baycrest Global Solutions, our commercialization arm, is the catalyst for adopting and marketing Baycrest’s innovations in aging including breakthrough technologies, systems, products and new knowledge.

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Headquartered in Ontario and fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is the global leader in developing and providing innovations in aging and brain health. Baycrest is unique in the world, combining a comprehensive system of care for aging patients, one of the world's top research institutes in cognitive neuroscience, dedicated centres focused on mitigating the impact of age-related illness and impairment, and unmatched global knowledge exchange and commercialization capacity.

Vice-President of Research ; Director, Rotman Research Institute – Baycrest

Dr. Randy McIntosh is vice-president of Research at Baycrest and director of Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute.

Dr. McIntosh is a pioneer in the study of how different parts of the brain work together to bring about the wide range of human mental operations. He has combined modern functional neuroimaging methods with mathematical modeling to characterize the changes in brain network dynamics related to awareness and learning, and shown how these dynamics change in normal aging and different clinical conditions.

Dr. McIntosh is leading a team of international scientists on a mammoth project to build the world’s first functional, virtual brain. The massive project—akin to decoding the human genome—has the potential to revolutionize how clinicians assess and treat various brain disorders, including cognitive impairment caused by stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.

The computerized model will deliver the first real, usable and open simulation of the human brain. For researchers, surgeons, neuroscientists and therapists, the virtual brain promises improved patient outcomes by letting clinicians simulate cognitive interventions – right from a Web browser.

A world-renowned expert in the use of neuro-imaging methods (fMRI, PET, EEG and MEG) and computational modeling to understand how brain networks change with aging and how the brain recovers from damage or disease, The Globe and Mail has ranked Dr. McIntosh among the top scientists in Canada’s largest city poised to break new ground in their field of research.

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Baycrest's amazing Virtual Brain

The Virtual Brain

Mapping the Mind: Ambitious 10-year project will create a detailed electronic atlas of the brain

Baycrest’s amazing Virtual Brain

Baycrest appoints Dr. Randy McIntosh as Vice-President of Research and Director of the world-renowned Rotman Research Institute

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Rethinking the definition of signal and noise in the brain

The Virtual Brain is the marriage of medical imaging and computer science. It’s a full-scale model of the human brain that parallels exactly what our own brain does: it grows up, gets old, suffers damage or gets a disease. The exciting part of The Virtual Brain is that we will be able to take an image of anyone’s brain and make their brain the model. In the case of a patient, this could help us both with diagnosis and planning the most effective way to treat their brain.

Vice-President of Research ; Director, Rotman Research Institute

Baycrest is leading a team of international scientists in a mammoth project to create the world's first functional, virtual brain. The effort puts Canada in a global race to pull off a neuroscience feat that is comparable to decoding the human genome. The achievement could revolutionize how clinicians assess and treat various brain disorders, including cognitive impairment caused by stroke and Alzheimer's disease. www.baycrest.org

Dr. Randy McIntosh talks about the virtual brain project.

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