Research Group
Our research team’s objective is to frame the cognitive and cerebral profile of families affected by ADHD in order to improve the attention of young children as well as to prevent familial, social and scholar conflicts. The present research proposes a familial component to this disorder. In this respect, the families and scholar network will be the ones who are going to benefit most of this study’s results.
This research is funded by the Conseil de Recherche en Sciences Humaines du Canada (CRSH) and the Fond de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ).
For this matter, we establish two parts of the study. The first part of this study is fond of a neuropsychology evaluation. This two-hour phase consists of filling different quizzes and will help in obtaining an individualised profile of attention and its components abilities. The second part is the evaluation in cerebral imagery and lasts two hours (including 45 minutes in the scanner). During this examination, brain pictures are obtained by fMRI while the participant is doing an experimental task.
Teacher at UQÀM
Neuropsychology team
Hélène Carbonneau, neuropsychologist
Centre de réadaptation Constance Lethbridge
http://www.constance-lethbridge.qc.ca/CRCL_WEB/FR/pAccueil.awp
University team
Adrianna Mendrek, Ph.D.
Dre. Mendrek, (Researcher, Ass. Research Prof., Centre Fernand-Séguin and Professor at Bishop University) research focuses on acquisition methods in fMRI. For the past 10 years, she has been working in functional and psychopharmacological neuroanatomy of the cognitive disorders associated with psychiatric disorders. She has committed herself to the study of cerebral states and markers of various psychopathologies in fMRI.
http://www.hlhl.qc.ca/recherche/la-recherche/les-chercheurs/adrianna-mendrek.html
Lucile Rapin, Ph.D.
Dre. Rapin, (Postdoctoral fellow, Université du Québec à Montréal) works in Dr. Poissant’s team as a student team manager and supervises the current study. She focuses on neuropsychology assessment as well as the study of cognitive cerebral mechanisms using fMRI. She has been working for the past four years in cognitive sciences associated with psychiatric disorders. In particular, she studied verbal auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia using fMRI and surface electromyography (EMG). To this matter, she trained in neuropsychological tests assessment and fMRI analyses methods such as SPM and cPCA.
Noureddine Senhadji, engineer in computer sciences
Brain imaging team
Steve Masson, Ph.D., UQÀM
http://www.neuroeducationquebec.org/membres/steve-masson.html
Stéphanie Lafortune, master degree candidate in Education, UQÀM
http://www.neuroeducationquebec.org/membres/stephanie-lafortune.html
Lorie-Marlène Brault-Foisy, master degree candidate in Education, UQÀM
http://www.neuroeducationquebec.org/membres/lorie-marlene-brault-foisy.html
Bianca Bier, Ph.D. candidate in psychology CRIUGM
Université de Montréal
Past Collaborators
Past students
Dre. Josée Delisle, Ph. D. Neuropsychologue
Sarah Lecomte, Psychologue
Véronique Parent, Ph. D.
Caroline Picard, Ms. D. Neuropsychologue
Mélanie Rouillard, M.Ps., Psychologue
Isabelle Neault, M.Ps., Psychologue
Clinicians-researchers, Hopital Rivières-des-Prairies, clinique Troubles déficitaires d'attention
Marie-Claude Guay, Ph.D, Professeure dpt. Psychologie, UQÀM
Philippe Lageix, M.D., Pédopsychiatre, Clinique des troubles de l'attention, Hopital Rivière-des-Prairies