Dr Alan Evans and a panel of experts discuss the past, present and future of brain imaging as a research tool.
The videotaped lecture provides an overview of brain imaging as a research tool and how brain-scanning technologies combined with sophisticated computational modelling can provide hitherto inaccessible information about what constitutes normal brain development and the impact of ageing diseases and mental illness.
Speakers include:
- Facilitator: Dr Julien Doyon, PhD
Scientific Director of the Functional Neuroimaging Unit, (IUGM) research center Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.
- Keynote Speaker: Dr Alan Evans, PhD
Scientifc Director, Ludmer Centre
Director of the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)
James McGill Professor in the departments of Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurology & Neurosurgery at McGill University
Director of the Montreal Consortium for Brain Imaging Research. - Dr Alain Dagher, PhD
Principal investigator of the Human Dopamine Neuroimaging Lab at The McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (“The BIC”)
Professor in the departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Psychology at McGill.
Dr Dagher discusses addiction combining computational and new imaging methods. - Dr Sherif Karama, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Associate professor at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre
Affiliated faculty member of the McConnell Brain Imaging Center of the Montreal Neurological Institute
Dr Karama presents the neurobiology of human intelligence. - Dr Barry J. Bedell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University
Director of the Small Animal Imaging Laboratory (SAIL) of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)
Dr Bedell presents the application of big data to rodent models of CNS disease.