NormanFarb

InstituteAddress: TheRotmanResearchInstitute Baycrest 3560BathurstSt Toronto,ONM6A2E1 OfficePhone: (416)7852500x2737 CellPhone: (647)2356281 Email:nfarb@research.baycrest.org Web: http://normanfarb.com Citizenship:Canadian

Education
2012Present UniversityofToronto PostdoctoralFellow TheCognitiveScienceofFlexibility,Adaptation,andWellBeing Supervisor:WilCunningham 2010Present RotmanResearchInstitute PostdoctoralFellow RestingStateNeuralNetworksinDementia;MindfulnessandWellBeinginOlderAdults Supervisor:TiffanyChow 20052010 UniversityofToronto Ph.D.,Psychology,CollaborativePrograminNeuroscience Towhichofthineselvesbetrue?ChangesinViscerosomaticNeuralActivitywithMindfulness MeditationTrainingReflectImprovedPresentMomentSelfAwareness Advisor:AdamK.Anderson 20042005 UniversityofToronto M.A.,Psychology,CollaborativePrograminNeuroscience FearingtheWorstandExpectingtheBest:RegulatoryFocusandthePhysiologicalResponseto EmotionalInformation Advisors:AdamK.Anderson&WilCunningham 19992003 UniversityofWaterloo B.A.,PsychologyandPhilosophy,JointHonors,OptioninCognitiveNeuroscience FeatureSalienceinCategorization:ImplicationsforStereotypeFormation Advisor:MichaelJ.Dixon

AcademicPositions
2012Present UniversityofToronto,ON,Canada SessionallecturerinNeurochemicalBasisofBehavior(PSY396) 20062008 UniversityofToronto,ON,Canada LecturerinHonorsStatistics(PSY202)andthePsychologyofSelf(PSY325) 20042010 UniversityofToronto,ON,Canada TeachingAssistant,variouscourses,includingGraduateStatistics

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20032004 UniversityofToronto,ON,Canada ResearchAssistant,Supervisor:Prof.FergusI.M.Craik,Ph.D.,FRSC 20012003 UniversityofWaterloo,ON,Canada ResearchAssistant,Supervisor:Assoc.ProfessorBarbaraBulmanFleming,Ph.D.

Awards&Fellowships
WomenofBaycrestPostdoctoralFellowship($50,000x3years) JackandRitaCatherallResearchAward($750) VarelaAward,MindandLifeInstitute($15,000) McCuaigThroopGraduateStudiesCompletionAward($800) OntarioMentalHealthFoundationStudentFellowship($15,000) MindandLifeSummerInstituteFellowship UniversityofTorontoPrograminNeuroscienceAwardforBestResearchPoster($100) VarelaAward,MindandLifeInstitute($10,000) NationalSciencesandEngineeringResearchCouncil(NSERC)CanadaPh.D.Graduate Scholarship($22,000x3Years) 20052007 MindandLifeSummerInstituteFellowships 2005 APAAdvancedTrainingInstituteFellowshipinfMRI,Charlestown,MA($2000) 2005 NationalSciencesandEngineeringResearchCouncil(NSERC)CanadaM.A.Graduate Scholarship($17,500) 2004 UniversityofTorontoGraduateStudentFellowship($15000+tuition) 2003 DartmouthSummerInstituteinCognitiveNeuroscienceFellowship 2003 FirstClassHonorswithDistinction,UndergraduateHonorsThesisinPsychology, 20102013 2011 2010 20092010 20092010 2009 2009 2007 20062009

Publications
ArticlesPublished,AcceptedorinPressinRefereedJournals
FarbNAS,GradyCL,StrotherS,TangWaiDF,MarsellisM,BlackS,FreedmanM,PollockBG,Campbell KL,HasherL,ChowTW(InPress).AbnormalNetworkConnectivityinFrontotemporalDementia: EvidenceofPrefrontalIsolation.Cortex. FarbNAS(2012).MindYourExpectations:AProposedRoleforSuggestioninMindfulnessTraining.The JournalofMindBodyRegulation,2(1),2742. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2012).Mindfulnessmeditationtrainingalterscortical representationsofinteroceptiveattention.Social,CognitiveandAffectiveNeuroscience,Advance AccesspublishedJune11,2012,doi:10.1093/scan/nss06. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2012).AttentionalModulationofPrimaryInteroceptiveand ExteroceptiveCortices.CerebralCortex,AdvanceAccesspublishedJanuary19,2012,doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr385.

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FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2012).TheMindfulBrainandEmotionRegulation.CanadianJournal ofPsychiatry,57(2),7077. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2011).TowardsaNeuroimagingBiomarkerofDepression Vulnerability.TranslationalNeuroscience,2(4),281292. HustonD,GarlandEL,FarbNAS(2011).MechanismsofMindfulnessinCommunicationsTraining. JournalofAppliedCommunication,39(4),40621. FarbNAS,AndersonAK,BlochR,SegalZV(2011).MoodlinkedResponsesinMedialPrefrontalCortex PredictRelapseinPatientswithRecurrentUnipolarDepression.BiologicalPsychiatry,70(4),366372. RiggsL,McQuigganDA,FarbN,AndersonAK,RyanJD(2011).Theroleofovertattentioninemotion modulatedmemory.Emotion,11(4),776785. FarbNAS,AndersonAK,MaybergHS,BeanJ,McKeonD,SegalZV(2010).Mindingone'semotions: Mindfulnesstrainingalterstheneuralexpressionofsadness.Emotion,10(1),2533. FarbNAS,SegalZV,MaybergH,BeanJ,McKeonD,FatimaZ,AndersonAK(2007).Attendingtothe present:mindfulnessmeditationrevealsdistinctneuralmodesofselfreference.SocialCognitiveand AffectiveNeuroscience,2(4),313122. FeaturedinSiegelD(2007).Mindfulnesstrainingandneuralintegration:differentiationof distinctstreamsofawarenessandthecultivationofwellbeing.Social,CognitiveandAffective Neuroscience,2:259263. TouryanSR,JohnsonMK,MitchellKJ,FarbN,CunninghamWA,RayeCL(2007).Theinfluenceofself regulatoryfocusonencodingof,andmemoryfor,emotionalwords.SocialNeuroscience,2,1427. CastelAD,FarbNAS,CraikFIM(2007).MemoryforGeneralandSpecificValueInformationinYounger andOlderAdults:Measuringthelimitsofstrategiccontrol.Memory&Cognition,35(4),689700.

ArticlesSubmittedtoRefereedJournals
FarbNAS,AndersonAK,IrvingJA,SegalZV(UnderReview).MindfulnessInterventionsandEmotion Regulation.InTheHandbookofEmotionRegulation,2ndEdition(ed.JamesGross),GuilfordPress. ThiruchselvamR,DixonM,FarbN,AndersonA(UnderRevision).MindfulnessMeditationEnhancesthe FlexibilityofAttentionalSelection.CognitionandEmotion.

PublishedContributionstoaCollectiveWorkand/orBookChapters
CorcoranK,FarbN,SegalZV(2010).EmotionRegulationMeetsMindfulness.InEmotionRegulation andPsychopathology(ed.A.Kring&D.Sloan),GuilfordPress. FarbN&SegalZV(2008).BookReviewforTheNeuroscienceofPsychologicalTherapies.The CanadianJournalofPsychiatry,53(9),3132.

ArticlesinPreparation(journalnamesdenoteinvitedarticles)
FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(InPreparation).AMelancholyShield:BehavioralandNeural InvestigationoftheProtectiveEffectsofSadness.

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FarbNAS,CunninghamWA(InPreparation).Doesdistresstoleranceleadtobetterdecisionmaking andwellbeing? FarbNAS&AndersonAK(inPreparation,invitedarticle).Formandfunctionofhumanemotions. CurrentOpinioninNeurobiology. FarbNAS(inPreparation,invitedarticle).Whatcanneuroimagingteachusabouteconomicbehavior? NeuroscienceandNeuroeconomics.

ConferenceAbstractsTalks
FarbNAS(2012).Meditation,Self,andtheBrain.TalkgivenatMindandLifeDialoguewiththeDalai LamaheldinRochester,MN,USA. FarbNAS(2012).AlteredcognitioninFrontotemporalDementia.TalkgivenatRotmanResearch InstituteRounds,Toronto,Canada. FarbNAS(2012).Aworkshoponmindfulness.TalkgivenattheInstituteofMentalHealthYoung ResearchersConference,Ottawa,Canada. FarbNAS(2012).Imaginginternalawareness:exploringtheneuroscienceofinteroception.Talkgiven atRotmanResearchInstitutefMRIRounds,Toronto,Canada. FarbNAS(2011).MindfulnessBasedStressReductionandNeuralExpressionofSadness.Talkgivenat theAnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforBiologicalPsychiatryheldinSanFrancisco,CA,USA. FarbNAS,ChowTW,TangWaiD,MasellisM(2011).TheImpactoftheRightInsulaonBehaviorand CognitioninFrontotemporalDementia.TalkgivenattheAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAcademy ofNeurologyheldinHonolulu,HI,USA. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2008).MechanismsofChange?Interoception,Suppression& MaintenanceinMindfulness.TalkgivenattheIntegratingClinicalandNeurosciencePerspectiveson MindfulnessTraininginHealthandDiseasemeetingattheUniversityofToronto. FarbNAS,SegalZV,MaybergH,BeanJ,McKeonD,FatimaZ&AndersonAK(2007).Distinctmodesof selfreferencealtertheneuralresponsetoaffectivechallenge.TalkgivenattheAnnualMeetingof theSocietyforNeuroscienceheldinSanDiego,CA,USA.

SelectedConferenceAbstractsPosters
FarbNAS,GradyCL,StrotherS,TangWaiDF,MarsellisM,BlackS,FreedmanM,PollockBG,ChowTW (2011).TheImpactoftheRightInsulaonBehaviorandCognitioninFrontotemporalDementia. PosterpresentedattheHarveyStancerResearchDayfortheDepartmentofPsychiatryheldatthe UniversityofToronto,Toronto,ON,Canada. FarbNAS,AndersonAK,&SegalZV(2010,April).Dissociableeffectsofrelaxationandmeditation trainingontheemotionalregulationofattention.PosterpresentedattheAnnualMeetingofthe CognitiveNeuroscienceSocietyheldinMontreal,QC,Canada. FarbNAS,AndersonAK,&SegalZV(2009).NeuralPredictionofDepressiveRelapse:AProspective FollowUpStudy.PosterpresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforNeuroscienceheldin Chicago,IL,USA. FarbNAS,RautuA,VervaekeJ(2009).TraitMindfulnessandInsightProblemSolving.Posterpresented atthemeetingoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation,Toronto,ON,Canada.

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FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2009).LettingGoofSadness:MindfulDetachmentinEmotion Regulation.PosterpresentedatthemeetingoftheCognitiveNeuroscienceSociety,SanFrancisco, CA,USA. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2009).MechanismsofChange?Interoception,Suppression& MaintenanceinMindfulness.TalkgivenattheIntegratingClinicalandNeurosciencePerspectiveson MindfulnessTraininginHealthandDiseasemeetingheldattheUniversityofToronto,Toronto,ON, Canada. FarbNAS,SegalZV,AndersonAK(2009).MechanismsofMindfulness:NeuroimagingInvestigationsof MindfulnessTraining.TalkgivenattheBuddhism,BrainsandBehaviourmeetingoftheCognitive ScienceandArtificialIntelligenceAssociation(CASA)attheUniversityofToronto,Toronto,ON, Canada. FarbNAS,SegalZ,MaybergH,BeanJ,McKeonD,FatimaZ,AndersonAK(2008).Mindfulness MeditationisAssociatedwithAlteredCorticalRepresentationsofBodyState.Posterpresentedatthe meetingoftheCognitiveNeuroscienceSociety,SanFrancisco,CA,USA. FarbNAS,SegalZV,MaybergH,BeanJ,McKeonD,FatimaZ,&AndersonAK(2007).Attendingtothe present:Mindfulnessmeditationrevealsdissociableneuralmodesofselfreference.Annualmeeting oftheCognitiveNeuroscienceSociety,NewYork,NY,USA. FarbNAS,CunninghamW,AndersonAK(2005).RegulatoryFocusModeratesthePhysiological ResponsetoRiskandReward.PosterpresentedattheAnnualMeetingoftheCognitiveNeuroscience Society,NewYork,NY,USA. VanBavelJJ,PackerDJ,FarbNAS,GonzalezJ,ChasteenAL,CunninghamWA(2005).Feelingtwothings atonce:Afunctionaldissociationbetweenimplicitandexplicitambivalencetowardsocialgroups. PaperpresentedattheSocietyforPersonalityandSocialPsychology7thAnnualMeeting,Palm Springs,CA. FarbNAS,AndersonAK&CunninghamWA(2005)ThePhysiologicalResponsetoPositiveandNegative EventsisModeratedbyRegulatoryFocus.SocietyforPersonalityandSocialPsychology7thAnnual Meeting,PalmSprings,CA,USA. CastelAD,FarbNAS,CraikFIM(2004).MemoryforGeneralandSpecificValueInformationinOldAge: MeasuringtheLimitsofStrategicControl.PosterpresentedattheAnnualMeetingofthe PsychonomicSociety,Minneapolis,MN,USA.

Teaching
UndergraduateCoursesTaughtasCourseInstructor Fall2012 Psy396 TheNeurochemicalBasisofBehavior Spring2008 PSY202 StatisticsII:Advancedstatisticsandresearchdesign Winter2008 PSY425 SelfConsciousness:Psychology&Neuroscience Winter2008 PSY202 StatisticsII:Advancedstatisticsandresearchdesign Spring2007 PSY202 StatisticsII:Advancedstatisticsandresearchdesign GuestLectures 2010Present PsychiatryResidentNeuroscienceBootcamp 20092010 PSY341 PsychopathologiesofChildhood UniversityofToronto UniversityofToronto UniversityofToronto UniversityofToronto UniversityofToronto

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2010 PSY333 HealthPsychology GraduateCoursesTaughtasTeachingAssistant Fall2008 PSY2001 DesignofExperimentsI:UnivariateStatistics Spring2008 PSY2001 DesignofExperimentsI:UnivariateStatistics Fall2006 PSY2001 DesignofExperimentsI:UnivariateStatistics UndergraduateCoursesTaughtasTeachingAssistant Spring2010 PSY100 IntroductoryPsychology Winter2009 PSY341 ChildhoodPsychopathology Fall2007 PSY370 ThinkingandReasoning Winter2007 PSY335 EnvironmentalPsychology Winter2007 PSY325 SelfConsciousness Spring2006 PSY328 PsychologyandtheLaw Spring2006 PSY324 InterpersonalRelationships Winter2005 PSY325 SelfConsciousness Fall2005 PSY201 StatisticsI:IntroductoryStatistics Spring2005 PSY230 PersonalityandTransformation Spring2005 PSY333 HealthPsychology Winter2005 PSY280 Perception Fall2004 PSY100 IntroductoryPsychology Fall2004 PSY504 SocialPsychology:AnIntroCourse

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InvitedPresentations
2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 UniversityofTorontoDepartmentofPsychiatry MoodDisordersAssociationofOntario UniversityofOttawaYoungInvestigatorsConference OntarioCollegeofArtandDesign TorontoSex,AgingandMemoryConference UniversityofTorontoDepartmentofPsychiatry CentreforAppliedNeuroscience RotmanResearchInstituteRounds WomenofBaycrestMembersAppreciationDinner UniversityofTorontoDepartmentofPsychiatry UniversityofFrieburgNeuroscienceConsciousnessandSpirtualityExpertMeeting RotmanResearchInstituteRounds UniversityofOttawaInstituteofMentalHealth RotmanResearchInstituteRounds TorontoWesternHospitalImagingRounds

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2009 MindandLifeSummerResearchInstitute 2007 MindandLifeSummerResearchInstitute

Affiliations
FrontotemporalDementiaWorkgroup,UniversityHealthNetwork,Member MoodandAnxietyDisordersProgram,CentreforAddictionandMentalHealth,ResearchConsultant DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofToronto,ResearchConsultant MoodandRelatedDisordersClinic,BaycrestCentreforGeriatricCare,MindfulnessInstructor

MembershipinProfessionalOrganizations
SocietyforNeuroscience,CognitiveNeuroscienceSociety,AmericanPsychologicalAssociation, AmericanAcademyofNeurology,SocietyofBiologicalPsychiatry,AssociationforContextual BehavioralScience

AdHocReviewer
BiologyofMoodandAnxietyDisorders;Brain;Cognitive,Affective,andBehavioralNeuroscience; EmotionReview;FrontiersofNeuroscience;HumanBrainMapping;JournalofAnxietyDisorders; JournalofConsultingandClinicalPsychology;JournalofExperimentalPsychology:General;Journalof MindBodyRegulation;NatureNeuroscience;Neuroimage;Neuropsychopharmacology;PLoSOne; PsychologicalScience;PsychonomicBulletinandReview;QuarterlyJournalofExperimental Psychology;SocialCognitiveandAffectiveNeuroscience

MediaCoverageofResearch
03/04/2012 07/2011 28/06/2011 30/05/2011 27/05/2011 27/05/2011 09/2010 09/2010 11/10/2009 ScientificAmerican:DecodingtheBodyWatcher ShambhalaSun:ThisisyourbrainonMindfulness PsychologyToday:RelapsePrevention:ItstheHowThatCounts PsychCentral:BrainsResponsetoSadnessPredictsDepressionRelapse TorontoStar:Torontostudyoffershopetothoseatriskofdepressionrelapse ScienceDaily:BrainsResponsetoSadnessCanPredictRelapsesIntoDepression OTheOprahMagazine:LearningtoExhale BaycrestBreakthroughs:EasingtheMind PsychologyToday:TheNeuroscienceofMindfulness

OtherIndicesofImpact
BoleynFitzgerald.PicturesoftheMind:WhattheNewNeuroscienceTellsUsaboutWhoWeAre.2full pagefiguresreprintedfromFarbetal.(2007)andFarbetal.(2010),and1newfullpagefigurecreated.

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Service
Current StaffResearchTrainingandSteeringCommittee,RotmanResearchInstitute ResearchEthicsBoardMember,PostDoctoralRepresentative,Baycrest InternalGrantReviewCommittee,RotmanResearchInstitute WorkshopinstructoronSPMfMRIdataanalysis&MATLAB,RotmanResearchInstitute FounderandFacilitator,RotmanMeditationClub,RotmanResearchInstitute MindfulnessbasedStressReduction(MBSR)classesfordementiapatients&caregivers Cofounder,MindfulnessProgramforGeriatricPatients,MoodDisorderClinic,Baycrest UniversityofTorontoStudentCareerMentor ResearchLabconsulting: o statistics,programmingandexperimentaldesign,includingfMRIparadigm programming,Levinelab,RotmanResearchInstitute o mediationanalyses,Ryanlab,RotmanResearchInstitute o fMRIanalysisanddesign,Ravindranlab,CentreforAddictionandMentalHealth o programming&paradigmdesign,Downarlab,TorontoWesternHospital PreviousService PeerStatisticalConsultant,20062010,UniversityofToronto, Workshopinstructoron:correlationmethodsandpitfalls,multivariateanalysis,studyprogramming, MATLAB,EPrimeprogramming,20062010,UniversityofToronto Conferencecoorganizer,IntegratingClinicalandNeurosciencePerspectivesonMindfulnessTraining inHealthandDiseasemeeting,2008,UniversityofToronto RegistrationVolunteeratHumanBrainMappingconference(2005)inToronto CreationanddevelopmentoffMRIdataprocessingpipelineattheAffectandCognitionLab, UniversityofToronto(CoPIsAdamK.Anderson&EveDeRosa) Developmentofimprovedfunctionalconnectivitytoolbox(inMATLAB)allowingforthemodelingof simpleeffectsanalysesduringpsychophysiologicalinteraction(PPI)analysis NonAcademicContributions Emergencyroomvolunteer,TorontoWesternHospital,everyTuesdaynight,20062007 3timeVarsityUltimateFrisbeeNationalChampion,20062008,UniversityofToronto VolunteerskillsinstructorandtournamentfacilitatorwithTorontoUltimateClub,20072009

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References
AdamK.Anderson,Ph.D. AssociateProfessor DepartmentofPsychology UniversityofToronto 100St.GeorgeStreet Toronto,ON,CanadaM5S3G3 Tel:(416)9460207 Email:anderson@psych.utoronto.ca ZindelSegal,Ph.D. CameronWilsonChairinDepressionStudies ProfessorofPsychiatryandPsychology DepartmentofPsychiatry,FacultyofMedicine,UniversityofToronto Head,CognitiveBehaviorTherapyClinic CentreforAddictionandMentalHealth 250CollegeStreet Toronto,ON,CanadaM5T1R8 Tel:(416)7840573 Email:zindel_segal@camh.net TiffanyChow,MD,MSc SeniorScientist,RotmanResearchInstitute AssociateProfessorofNeurology,UniversityofToronto AssociateProfessorofPsychiatry,UniversityofToronto 3560BathurstStreet Toronto,ON,CanadaM6A2E1 Tel:(416)7852500x3459 Email:tchow@research.baycret.org EveDeRosa,Ph.D. AssociateProfessor DepartmentofPsychology UniversityofToronto 100St.GeorgeStreet Toronto,ON,CanadaM5S3G3 Tel:(416)9783401 Email:derosa@psych.utoronto.ca