Theme : Neurosciences

bernard.brais@umontreal.ca

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• Associate Professor, Department of medicine, University of Montreal
• Neurologist, CHUM
• Director, Neurogenetics of motricity laboratory, CRCHUM

Keywords
Ataxias, hereditary neuritis, muscular dystrophy, migraines, neurogenetics.

Research Interests
Geneisis of Quebecs genetic heritage and its impact on health. 

Constitution regional gentic heritages and their influence on variable frequencies of mutation carriers. Projects are eleaborated as a fucntion of poistional cloning as part of a larger perspective of identifying new neurogenetic diseases having a founder effect in Quebec.

The Neurogenetics of Motricity Laboratory has three research themes: muscular dystrophy dystrophies musculaires, sensitive neuritis and ataxias.

With support from the Fondation de l’Ataxie de Charlevoix-Saguenay, the laboratory has initiated a vast collaborative project on recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay to intensify research into this disease which occurs more frequently in Quebec.

Publications
Publications indexed on PubMed