Affiliation

• Department of stomatology, Faculty of Dentistry
• Department of neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine
• CHUM

Research expertise

• Clinical measures in Parkinson's disease
• Clinical measures in tardive dyskinesia
• Neuropsychopharmacology and motor complications
• Behavioral animal studies

Main research projects

• Restless legs syndrome of the oral region: a scoping review
• Exploratory investigation of the oral aspects of restless legs syndrome: the ORO-RLS study
• Contribution of kinematic theory to the early differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease
• Pilot study of striatal signaling modulation in experimental tardive dyskinesia
• Selection and surgical response of patients with idiopathic normotensive hydrocephalus: pilot study

Approaches used

• Scoping review
• Online survey
• Clinical study to collect motor, oculovisual and vocal biomarkers in various Parkinsonian syndromes
• Animal pharmacological studies with behavioral characterization
• Clinical study of biomarker collection from biospecimens and home motion sensors in subjects with normotensive hydrocephalus

Keywords

Parkinson's disease, Tardive dyskinesia, Basal ganglia, Dopamine, Biomarkers