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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.
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doug.allan@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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nervous system, neurodegeneration, drosophilia |
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doug@zoology.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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systems neuroscience |
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silkec@mail.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, imaging, dementia, cognition |
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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 |
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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 |
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neil.cashman@vch.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer disease, dementia, neurodegeneration, protein misfolding, prion diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
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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 |
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ddoudet@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, depression, cognition, dopamine |
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gawryluk@uvic.ca |
Assistant Professor, Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology), University of Victoria
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Neuropsychology, fMRI, DTI, MRI, imaging, multiple sclerosis (MS, Alzheimer disease |
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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 |
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Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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gordon@zoology.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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systems neuroscience |
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kurt.haas@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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autism, epilepsy, neuroplasticity, developmental neuroscience |
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aherdman@audiospeech.ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Piotr.Kozlowski@ubc.ca |
Associate Professor, Radiology/Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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MRI, cancer, spinal cord injury |
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kramer@icord.org |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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ckrieger@sfu.ca |
Clinical Associate Professor, Divison of Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, electrophysiology, cytoskeleton, Drosophila, neuromuscular junction, muscle |
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ujendra.kumar@ubc.ca |
Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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martin.mckeown@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, dementia, clinical trials |
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mizumoto@zoology.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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developmental biology, neuroscience, Caenorhabditis elegans |
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mohajerni@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 |
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tim.murphy@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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stroke, depression, neuroplasticity, imaging, foundational science |
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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 |
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spelech@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor, Division of Neurology, 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 |
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jquandt@pathology.ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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lynn.raymond@ubc.ca |
Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
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Huntington disease, glutamate receptors, optogenetic imaging, electrophysicology, cortical-striatal synaptic function and plasticity |
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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 |
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jstoessl@mail.ubc.ca |
Professor & Head, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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imaging, Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, clinical trials, rehabilitation |
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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 |
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tetzlaff@icord.org |
Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, UBC
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t.traboulsee@ubc.ca |
Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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neuromyelitis optica (NMO), MRI, MS-CCSVI, clinical trials, multiple sclerosis |
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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 |
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NINET.Lab@ubc.ca |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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rTMS, ECT, MST, tDCS, depression, schizophrenia, student health |
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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 |
The Centre is home to several clinics that focus on sensory/motor systems and movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington’s disease.
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