Mécanismes de récupération de la marche dans des modèles animaux d’atteinte médullaire : 

• Lésions de la moelle épinière
• Neuroplasticité
• Système moteur
• Récupération fonctionnelle
• Réhabilitation
• Neuroprothéses
• Modèles animaux

• Marco BONIZZATO (depuis 2017)
• Andrew BROWN (2016-2019)
• Maxime DELCOUR (2017-2019)

• Morgane REGNIEZ (2018-2021)
• Maude DUGUAY (2019-2021)
• Anne-Catherine CHOUINARD (2021-)
• Roxanne DRAINVILLE (2021-)

Stagiaires de 1er cycle:

• Stéphanie LANGHEIT (2017)
• Simon-Olivier CLOUTIER (2017)
• Simon GUICHANDUT (2018)
• Rose GUAY-HOTTIN (2018-2019)
• Maude DUGUAY (2018)
• Juliette MILNER (2018)
• Emilie DELAGE (2018-2019)
• Joey ST-ARNAULT (2019)
• Véronique CHOUINARD (2019)
• Catherine LANDRY (2019)
• Catherine HENRY (2019)
• Shana THEODORE (2019)
• Hind TOURI (2020)
• Victorine ARTOT (2020)
• Gaëlle FOREST ST-ONGE (2020)
• Alexandre SHEASBY (2020-2021)
• Roxanne DRAINVILLE (2020-2021)
• Valérie DAIGNEAULT (2020-2021)
• Samuel BOYER (2020-2021)
• Charlie LEPITRE (2021)
• Rania LEJRI (2021)
• Medhi JAWAD (2021)

Publications choisies

• Bonizzato M, Massai E, Martinez M (2021) Cortical neuroprosthesis-mediated functional ipsilateral control of locomotion in rats with incomplete spinal cord injury. BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.448959v2
• Brown A and Martinez M (2021). Chronic inactivation of the contralesional hindlimb motor cortex after thoracic spinal cord hemisection impedes spontaneous locomotor recovery in the rat. Experimental Neurology 343 (113775). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113775
• Bonizzato M and Martinez M. An intracortical neuroprosthesis immediately alleviates walking deficits and improves recovery of leg control after spinal cord injury. Science Translational Medicine 13(586):eabb4422, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb4422
• Brown A and Martinez M. From cortex to cord: motor circuit plasticity after spinal cord injury. Neural Regeneration Research, 2019 14(12):2054-2062.
• Brown A and Martinez M. Thoracic spinal cord hemisection surgery and open-field locomotor assessment in the rat. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2019, (148), e59738, doi:10.3791/59738.
• Brown A and Martinez M. Ipsilesional motor cortex plasticity participates in spontaneous hindlimb recovery after unilateral spinal cord injury. J Neurosi. 2018, 38(46):9977–9988.
• Martinez M, Tuznik M, Delivet-Mongrain H, Rossignol S. Emergence of Deletions during Treadmill Locomotion as a Function of Supraspinal and Sensory Inputs. J. Neurosc. 2013, 33:11599-605;
• Martinez M, Delivet-Mongrain H, Rossignol S. Treadmill training promotes spinal changes leading to locomotor recovery after partial spinal cord injury in cats. J. Neurophysiology. 2013, 109: 2909-22;
• Martinez M and Rossignol S. A dual spinal cord lesion paradigm to study spinal locomotor plasticity in the cat. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2013, 1279:127-34;
• Martinez M, Delivet-Mongrain H, Leblond H, Rossignol S. Effect of locomotor training in completely spinalized cats previously submitted to a spinal hemisection. J. Neurosc. 2012, 32:10961-70;
• Martinez M, Delivet-Mongrain H, Leblond H, Rossignol S. Incomplete spinal cord injury promotes durable functional changes within the spinal locomotor circuitry. J. Neurophysiology. 2012, 108:124-34;
• Martinez M and Rossignol S. Changes in CNS structures after Spinal Cord Lesions: implications for BMI. Progress in Brain Research, Vol 194. Edited by Jens Schouenborg, Martin Garwicz and Nils Danielsen. Prog Brain Res. 2011, 194:191-202;
• Martinez M, Delivet-Mongrain H, Leblond H, Rossignol S. Recovery of hindlimb locomotion after incomplete spinal cord injury in the cat involves spontaneous compensatory changes within the spinal locomotor circuitry. J. Neurophysiology 2011, 106:1969-1984;
• Martinez M, Brezun JM, Xerri C. Sensorimotor experience influences recovery of forelimb abilities but not tissue loss after focal cortical compression in adult rats. PLoS One 2011; 6(2): e16726:
• Martinez M, Delcour M, Russier M, Zennou-Azogui Y, Xerri C, Coq JO, Brezun JM. Differential tactile and motor recovery and cortical map alteration after C4-C5 spinal hemisection. Exp Neurol. 2010, 221:186-197;
• Martinez M, Brezun JM, Zennou-Azogui Y, Baril N, Xerri C. Sensorimotor training promotes functional recovery and somatosensory cortical map reactivation following cervical spinal cord injury. Eur J Neurosci. 2009, 30:2356-67;
• Martinez M, Brezun JM, Bonnier L, Xerri C. A new rating scale for open-field evaluation of behavioural recovery after cervical spinal cord injury in rats. J.Neurotrauma 2009, 26:1043-53.

• Entrevue avec Québec Sciences : Inventions de l’année 2021: « Neural DRIVE : l’entreprise québécoise qui veut faire marcher les paralysés »
• Entrevue dans La Presse: https://lp.ca/8C8z9w
• Entrevue avec Drug Discovery News : https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/a-new-neuroprosthetic-may-revolutionize-spinal-cord-injury-treatment-1516
• Nouvelles de l’Université de Montréal : https://neurosciences.umontreal.ca/non-classe/marina-martinez-percer-le-mystere-des-traumas-medullaires-par-les-neurosciences/