Tyrone Ly MSc candidate

I am an incoming MSc student in Neuroscience with a BSc Honours in Cellular, Anatomical, and Physiological Sciences from UBC. I’m excited for this opportunity to expand further on my honours thesis project under the supervision of Dr. Todd S. Woodward at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia Lab, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. My research focusses on studying the functional brain networks involved in our working memory by using Constrained Principal Component Analysis to analyze task-based fMRI data obtained from open science frameworks. From these findings, correlations will be established between patterns of network activation and individual differences in demographics, personality, behavior, cognitive performance, and symptoms of mental illnesses. Such understandings will help guide advancements in diagnosis and the development of treatment options for several neurological disorders that involve working memory deficits.

Research Interests: Working memory, Functional brain networks, fMRI, psychometric analysis, open science