My name is Brea Chouinard and I am currently a PhD student at the University of Alberta (U of A). I am interested in neuroplasticity and the implications for speech and language therapies. Specifically, for my doctoral research I am going to be investigating a computer program developed around the principles of neuroplasticity and its effects on the language of typically aging adults and people with aphasia. A large part of this project entails functional and structural imaging.

I will be collaborating with a speech and language therapist in Winnipeg and ideally, we would like all participants to undergo the same structural and neuroimaging assessment protocols. As such, I would like to know how to go about liaising with Magnetic Resonance Imaging at St. Boniface Hospital.

My supervisor re: neuroimaging here at the U of A is Dr. Jacqueline Cummine (PhD Cognitive Neuroscience). We would like to begin the process of affiliating with your institution so that we can use your 1.5 Tesla research MRI for our data gathering.

Would you please let me know of how to begin these procedures? If I need to be redirected or if there is someone more appropriate to contact with this request, that information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Regards,

Brea Ch Speech-Language Pathologist 780-885-2732 breachouinard@hotmail.com

/sent on behalf of

Chris Anderson President - Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience Associate Professor - Pharmacology & Therapeutics University of Manitoba

Kelly Jorundson

Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience

R4046 - 351 Taché Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA

Tel: 204.235.3939 7Fax: 204.237.4092 Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca

Website: www.sfn-manitoba.ca