September 13, 2024
Synergy Program student profile: Alyssa Aguason
Alyssa Aguason is a current third-year Neuroscience student who was working with Dr. Lynn…
Research in this area is focused on how the brain interprets and organizes sensory information, as well as how the brain facilitates motor behaviours. The Centre is home to researchers who focus on understanding how we are able to process information in the world around us. Many teams focus their research on movement disorders, including core features of Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Huntington’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), from both a foundational and clinical perspective.
Research is aimed at better understanding the cellular mechanisms and brain circuit changes underlying these disorders, as well as clinical trials to test novel therapies, in order to improve diagnosis, treatment, and overall quality of life for people living with a movement disorder.
Learn more about the clinical and foundational scientists who are studying sensory/motor systems and movement disorders.
Name and Contact Info | Title | Research Interests | |
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khaled.abdelrahman@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Alzheimer’s disease, GPCRs, Glutamate, neurovascular coupling, cerebral blood flow, neuropharmacology, neuroglia | |
doug.allan@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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nervous system, neurodegeneration, drosophilia | |
doug@zoology.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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systems neuroscience | |
silke.cresswell@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, imaging, dementia, cognition | |
auld@zoology.ubc.ca |
Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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nervous system, developmental neuroscience, glial cells, gliotactin | |
jasonbarton@shaw.ca |
Professor, Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, UBC
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lara.boyd@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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neuroplasticity, stroke, nervous system, rehabilitation, behaviour | |
neil.cashman@vch.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer disease, dementia, neurodegeneration, protein misfolding, prion diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | |
peter.cripton@ubc.ca |
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC
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cynader@brain.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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ophthalmology, neuroplasticity, neurodegeneration, Huntington disease, stroke, glaucoma, nervous system | |
ryan@healthtechconnex.com |
Affiliate Professor, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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systems neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, functional neuroimaging, neurotechnology, neuroplasticity | |
ddoudet@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, depression, cognition, dopamine | |
emberson@psych.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UBC
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infant development, neural networks, learning, vision, audition, language, face perception, fNIRS, memory | |
gawryluk@uvic.ca |
Associate Professor, Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology), University of Victoria
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Neuropsychology, fMRI, DTI, MRI, imaging, multiple sclerosis (MS, Alzheimer disease | |
giaschi@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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ophthalmology, dyslexia, amblyopia, fMRI, MRI, motion perception, developmental neuroscience | |
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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gordon@zoology.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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systems neuroscience | |
kurt.haas@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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autism, epilepsy, neuroplasticity, developmental neuroscience | |
aherdman@audiospeech.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC
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bhilton@icord.org |
Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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axon regeneration, central nervous system, circuit, plasticity, spinal cord, spinal cord injury | |
thuan@chem.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UBC
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bioinformatics, systems biology, Alzheimer disease, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolomics | |
jilles@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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neuroethics, neurotechnology, neuroimaging, neurodegeneration, dementia, regenerative medicine | |
heeyeon.im@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UBC
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shannon.kolind@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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MRI, multiple sclerosis | |
Piotr.Kozlowski@ubc.ca |
Professor, Radiology/Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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MRI, cancer, spinal cord injury | |
kramer@icord.org |
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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ckrieger@sfu.ca |
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology), Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, electrophysiology, cytoskeleton, Drosophila, neuromuscular junction, muscle | |
ujendra.kumar@ubc.ca |
Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
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stefan.lang@vch.ca |
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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fMRI, deep brain stimulation, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, normal pressure hydrocephalus, cognition, non-motor symptoms, brain tumors | |
corree@physics.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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MRI, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, neuropathology, spinal cord injury | |
bleavitt@cmmt.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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leitch@zoology.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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sensory neuroscience, somatosensation, electroreception, mechanotransduction, comparative neurobiology, evolutionary neuroscience, pain signalling, ion channels | |
david.li@ubc.ca |
Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Associate Member Medicine (Neurology), Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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multiple sclerosis, MRI, clinical trials | |
xiaoxiao.li@ece.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, UBC
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Neuroimaging, Brain Connectome, Machine Learning | |
ian.mackenzie@vch.ca |
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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biobank, neuropathology, dementia, neurodegeneration, clinical trials | |
manu.madhav@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, UBC
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cognitive representations, place cells, spatial navigation, path planning | |
joanne.matsubara@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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neurodegeneration, Retina, Eye, Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, Neuroinflammation, Glia Activation, Drug Discovery, Gene Treatment | |
ben.matthews@zoology.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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Sensory neuroscience, behaviour, neural circuits, mosquitoes, CRISPR/Cas9 | |
martin.mckeown@ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, dementia, clinical trials | |
mizumoto@zoology.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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developmental biology, neuroscience, Caenorhabditis elegans | |
mohajerani@uleth.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
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molday@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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foundational science, neurodegenerative diseases, drug discovery | |
olmoritz@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Neurodegeneration, advanced microscopy techniques, in-vivo imaging, signal transduction, membrane proteins, cell death mechanisms | |
tim.murphy@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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stroke, depression, neuroplasticity, imaging, foundational science | |
ipor@mail.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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developmental neuroscience, foundational science, computer science, imaging | |
spelech@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Alzheimer disease, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, Friedreich’s ataxi, cancer, diabetes, cell signalling, protein kinases, SARS-CoV-2 | |
erik.pioro@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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mahmoud.pouladi@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, Huntington disease, Fragile X syndrome, multiple sclerosis, preclinical translational research, animal models, human pluripotent stem cells, genome engineering | |
jquandt@pathology.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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lynn.raymond@ubc.ca |
Co-Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
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Huntington disease, glutamate receptors, optogenetic imaging, electrophysicology, cortical-striatal synaptic function and plasticity | |
vesna@phas.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, UBC
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miriam.spering@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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ophthalmology, psychology, neuroscience | |
jstoessl@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor & Head, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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imaging, Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, clinical trials, rehabilitation | |
roger.tam@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC
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machine learning, image analysis, MRI, personalized medicine, neurodegenerative disease | |
tetzlaff@icord.org |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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t.traboulsee@ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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neuromyelitis optica (NMO), MRI, MS-CCSVI, clinical trials, multiple sclerosis | |
helen.tremlett@ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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lees@phas.ubc.ca |
Research Associate and Senior Imaging Scientist, UBC MRI Research Centre
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MRI, myelin water, multiple sclerosis (MS), imaging | |
NINET.Lab@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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rTMS, ECT, MST, tDCS, depression, schizophrenia, student health | |
carles@can.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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jwerker@psych.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UBC
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developmental cognitive neuroscience, infant speech | |
chris.west@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Okanagan
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spinal cord injury, autonomic nervous system | |
dwylie@ualberta.ca |
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
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systems neuroscience, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, vision, sensori-motor integration, perception, brain evolution, birds |
The Centre is home to several clinics that focus on sensory/motor systems and movement disorders, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington’s disease.
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