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!
Brainstorm NIH funding renewed! We’re hiring!
We are looking for a talented post-doctoral researcher to lead exciting new methods and software developments for naturalistic neuroscience.
Deep down, we’re aging.
We publish today in Cerebral Cortex a study that advances our understanding of the effects of biological aging on the neurophysiology of deeper brain structures that are crucial to cognitive functions.
New paper details the association between haemodynamic & electrophysiological brain signals
A new study conducted by Golia Shafiei, in the team of Bratislav Misic at The Neuro/McGill, in collaboration with our lab was just published in PLoS Biology. The study advances our comprehension of how functional MRI signals relate to electrophysiological fluctuations detected with MEG in brain networks.
Go with the flow: how the brain motor system helps us process sound streams
We constantly process sounds that come in streams, embedded in a certain context — think music and speech for instance. How salient sounds standing out from a flow of auditory information are detected and processed by brain circuits was the purpose of our new study, just published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Jason is a Brain Star (award winner)!
Jason da Silva Castanheira receives a prestigious Brain Star award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research!