Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital

The co-director of the Rare Neurological Disorders group at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital is the neurologist Dr. Bernard Brais. At McGill, he earned his PhD, MDCM, and residency in neurology. He has additional training in the history of genetics and the neurosciences. View Profile

"Edith Hamel is a Canadian neuroscientist who focuses on the interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microvessels that permit a normal blood supply to activated brain areas as well as the different neurological diseases that result from a system that is not functioning properly. Hamel works in a lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, a project of McGill University. There, she employs a variety of brain imaging methods to map changes in neuronal and hemodynamic responses under various physiological and pathological circumstances in order to identify the mediators of these responses." View Profile

Guy Rouleau, MD, is the Director of The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at the McGill University Health Centre, a co-founder of the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, and a renowned James McGill Professor. Dr. Rouleau is a clinician-scientist who treats patients with genetic disorders of the brain and other diseases. He concentrates his research on figuring out the underlying causes of these problems in order to develop novel treatments. Throughout the course of his more than 30 years of actively conducting research, he has produced approximately 850 articles in peer-reviewed journals, which have been cited more than 74,000 times (Google Scholar). Identifying dozens of disease-causing genes and discovering novel mutational pathways are only a couple of Dr. Rouleau's ground-breaking accomplishments. His identification of the genes responsible for neurological and psychiatric conditions such as autism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hereditary neuropathies, epilepsy, and schizophrenia has improved our understanding of the molecular processes underlying the manifestation of these conditions' symptoms. View Profile

Since 2009, Alan Evans has held the James McGill Chair in Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. He also works as a researcher at The Neuro's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC). He is the Neurosciences Victor Dahdaleh Chair. He serves as co-director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health and as the project's principal investigator for CBRAIN, a national initiative to connect the high-performance computing grid of Compute Canada with domestic brain research. View Profile