His project, “Phenotyping the behavioural impacts of Visual Snow Syndrome and their relation to everyday function”, will study how VSS affects visual perception and daily life. VSI provided a letter of support to help strengthen the application and ensure this important research moves forward.
Dr. Baldwin and his team aim to advance understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the condition and to develop new tools for measuring and ultimately treating it.
“I wanted to personally thank you, the Visual Snow Initiative, for your support,” Dr. Baldwin said to the VSI team.
Dr. Baldwin’s work uses human behavioral experiments and computer modeling to study how the brain processes visual information and how this processing is disrupted in Visual Snow Syndrome. Building on psychophysics, physiology, and neuroimaging research, his project explores how the brain joins local visual details into continuous patterns and how neural “noise” interferes with this process, impacting daily visual function and quality of life.
This CIHR grant is one of 17 new projects funded at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) aimed at advancing discoveries that benefit human health.
Read the full list of funded projects here.
Updates from Dr. Baldwin will follow as his research moves forward.