Neurospeed - Baillet Lab: Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems

10/07/2025

Congratulations to Xiaobo Liu for successfully defending his PhD thesis earlier today!

Wishing you to fulfill your big dreams in the next chapter of your professional journey!

10/01/2025

We're starting a new neuroSPEED chapter, growing a new team at Université de Montréal and Montreal's main University Hospital (CHUM) -- stay tuned!

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025/09/26/sylvain-baillet-enseigner-la-science-batir-des-ponts-former-les-nouvelles-generations

09/29/2025

About ten years ago, Prof. Sylvia Villeneuve and the PREVENT-AD team took a bold step: they decided to add MEG recordings to an already intensive longitudinal study of individuals at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. It was a leap into the unknown, but one that is now paying off. Evidence is mounting that subtle changes in brain activity occur long before symptoms emerge, and may even anticipate the pathological build-up of proteins that drive the disease.

This new paper marks a major milestone for PREVENT-AD. I am deeply grateful to Sylvia and the team for their enthusiasm and resilience over the past decade. Their vision and dedication have led to a series of impactful studies and high-profile publications, and the future promises even more insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.

Read the paper in open access:

The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...

09/10/2025

How does the brain decide what we actually see? New collaborative study led by Janine Mendola, published open-access in iScience.
When each eye is presented with a different image, our perception flips back and forth between them. This phenomenon, called "binocular rivalry", opens a window into the nature of conscious visual perception.

We tracked, in real time with MEG imaging, how the brain coordinates these perceptual switches. We found that changes in brain rhythms determine when one image takes over, when perception becomes unstable, and how information flows between visual areas and higher-order regions.

One step toward better understanding the neurophysiological foundations of conscious experience. 🌈

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113383

Star trainees in charge: Eric Mokri & Jason Da Silva Castanheira

09/04/2025

Honoured to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada, Academy of Science.

Grateful to 🇨🇦 for the opportunities, and to all colleagues and trainees McGill University The Neuro for this shared recognition🙏🏼.

08/28/2025

PracticalMEEG-2025 is offering two early-bird fees for Brainstorm trainers until September 12 !

Register now and contribute to supporting the Brainstorm community ! ❤️

https://cuttingeeg.org/practicalmeeg2025/

08/09/2025

We have a newly minted ⁦‪‬⁩ ⁦‪‬⁩ PhD: congratulations Dr Zaida Martínez Moreno!

08/06/2025

🧩🧠New release! OMEGA v3.1.1 is out—now with MEG-MRI co-registration for 480 participants 🎉 Manual alignment using original MRI+digitized head shape & fiducials. Includes BIDS-compliant landmarks+quality scores.

🔗 See “Co-registration” tab: https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/resources/omega

08/05/2025

🧠🚀 Announcing 𝐬𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦: open-source pipeline for multimodal intracranial ephys /epilepsy research: CT→MRI coreg, GARDEL contact localization, atlas labelling, seizure fingerprinting, source analysis—all in one GUI.
https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/seeg/ct2mri

07/23/2025

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.

Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

07/21/2025

Big news, and more to come, from our lab.

Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! Nous avons le grand plaisir d’annoncer la nomination de M. Sylvain Baillet, Ph.D., à titre de directeur de la recherche et de l’innovation du CHUM et directeur du Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM). Physicien de formation et expert recon...

07/17/2025

🚨New paper in PAIN led by Raghavan Gopalakrishnan, with Tor Wager, Mathieu Roy et al.

We studied how the brain anticipates unpleasant events, highlighting that predictive brain mechanisms extend beyond rewards to aversive stimuli.

An important step forward in understanding the neural dynamics of anticipation and pain.

odeling and magnetoencephalography to detect time-resolved activations underlying pain expectations and aversive PE signals in the human brain. The task entailed learning probabilistically changing cue-pain associations to avoid receiving a pain stimulus. We used an axiomatic approach to identify ge...