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Dr. Numa Dancause

Université de Montrèal

Numa Dancause Bsc(PT), PhD, is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Neurosciences of the UdeM; research axis director of the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec – Santé Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur le Cerveau et l’Apprentissage (CIRCA), co-lead of the Canadian Platform for Trials in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (CanStim) overseeing research in animal models and member of the Union Neuroscience et Intelligence artificielle Quebec (UNIQUE), the strategic research cluster of the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec – Nature et Technologie.

With his original training in physical therapy, Numa carefully aligns his experimental work in animals to human studies to provides complementary data that address critical clinical questions. His lab uses a variety of electrophysiological and neuroanatomical techniques in different models (rat, capuchin, vervet and macaque) to study motor control, plasticity supporting motor recovery after brain injury such as stroke, and the effects of rehabilitation and neuromodulation on this plasticity. His leadership is well demonstrated by numerous invitations to give lectures, implication in national and international meetings and contributions to several international recommendation papers in the field of stroke recovery. Publications:68; Google H-index:29; i10-index:48; Citations:4140.