Max Levinson, PhD
Congratulations to Dr Max Levinson on his successful PhD defense! We wish him the best as he embarks on his next research chapter at New York University.
Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS): a retrospective
We are both happy and proud to have played a little part (MEG-BIDS) in this collective effort to promote collaboration and structured data sharing in neuroimaging research. New retrospective paper just published by MIT Press' Imaging Neuroscience.
Jason da Silva Castanheira graduates from his PhD
Today, Jason brilliantly defended his PhD thesis in Neuroscience and became one new neuroSPEED PhD graduate!
Brain Changes in Parkinson's Disease: from Chemistry to Anatomy.
We publish in Annals of Neurology a new study that advances the fundamental understanding of Parkinson's disease beyond its motor symptoms. Our findings underscore the importance of considering the neurochemical organization of the cortex in the disease and its implications for treatment and management. As we continue to explore these complex relationships, we move closer to more targeted and effective therapies for PD patients.
Hard to focus!
We publish in Cerebral Cortex a new study in collaboration with Jérôme Sackur at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) that explored how different types of attention interact in the brain.
We recorded brainwaves with EEG to study how involuntary attention (like a sudden sound grabbing your attention) can interrupt voluntary attention (like focusing on a task). Our findings shed light on the complex ways our brain juggles different attention processes, offering new insights into how our mind manages focus and distractions.
Brain and pain: a two-way street.
We publish in the journal PAIN reports a new study that advances the understanding of the complex and multifaceted brain signals that convey the perception of pain.
The Dual Nature of Brain Changes in Parkinson’s Disease
When slow is not necessarily a low. We show in a new study just published in Progress in Neurobiology how a slowing of brain activity may be protective of brain functions in the natural history of Parkinson’s Disease.
Sylvain elected as Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Sylvain has been elected Chair of the Organization, which purpose is to advance the understanding of the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain, and to promote the medical and societal applications of brain imaging methods.
OHBM is the largest scholarly Society of the field, with several international Chapters, Special Interest Groups and an annual meeting gathering 3,000 attendees.
A point about AI-health research at McGill
As Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sylvain gave a short interview about current AI & health research efforts at McGill University to the Temerty Centre for AI Research & Education in Medicine.
Alex Wiesman awarded a CIHR Banting fellowship
We are happy and proud to announce that Alex Wiesman, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious Banting postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Another brick in brain decoding.
Sylvain was interviewed by the magazine Science about a new study published in PLoS Biology reporting the decoding of music from the electrophysiological activity of the brain of participants.
NIH supports new Brainstorm software developments to boost research on Alzheimer’s disease.
We are grateful to receive additional funding from the National Institutes of Health in support of our Brainstorm software developments. This new supplement is to enable specific software developments that critical to Alzheimer’s neuroimaging research. reach out to us now as we are opening two post-doctoral positions for this project.
An adversarial collaboration to accelerate research on the neural bases of consciousness
We participate in a major international adversarial collaboration to identify the neural bases of consciousness. The New York Times reports today on our first published study and the state of affairs.
Speech impairments in Parkinson’s disease: the brain perspective.
Our new study published today in open access by npj Parkinson’s Disease clarifies the neurophysiological manifestations of speech impairments in Parkinson’s disease using advanced functional brain imaging.
Two eyes, one vision, except when not.
We took part in another fruitful collaborative study led by vision neuroscience specialist Prof Janine Mendola, which was just published in the European Journal of Neuroscience in open access.
Spinal cord stimulation against chronic pain: why conflicting outcomes?
In a new study published today in the journal Neuromodulation, we report the brain responses to spinal cord stimulation, a treatment for individuals afflicted by severe chronic pain. We found that these brain responses are remarkably variable across patients, which may account for the fact that the benefits of spinal cord stimulation on chronic pain vary greatly between individuals.
The neurochemistry of the structural and functional organization of the human brain.
In another winning collaboration with Prof Bratislav Misic, we show how markers of brain activity and structure relate to the topography of neurotransmitter systems across the cortex. This new study is published by Nature Neuroscience.
New collaborative study clarifies the origins of epileptic seizures.
Our new collaborative study, published in Epileptic Disorders clarifies how seizures propagate across the brain in certain types of general epilepsy.
A new tool for the interpretation of brain structures and functions.
We were fortunate to work with Prof Bratislav Misic and collaborators to deliver neuromaps, a toolbox for accessing, transforming and analyzing structural and functional brain annotations in a common framework.
The details are reported in a new article published in Nature Methods.
Time-tracking the spectrum of complex neural dynamics.
We publish today in eLife, a new method that decomposes brain activity into oscillatory and background signal elements that vary at the natural time scale of the brain and behavior. Check it out with the companion open-source code or with Brainstorm!