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Tomas Paus

Professeur titulaire

Faculté de médecine - Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie

tomas.paus@umontreal.ca

Professeur titulaire

Faculté de médecine - Département de neurosciences

tomas.paus@umontreal.ca

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Population Neuroscience of the Developing Brain - Tomas Paus (Université de Montréal)

Conférence de Prof. Tomas Paus (Université de Montréal) intitulée “Population Neuroscience of the Developing Brain”. Lecture by Prof. Tomas Paus (Université de Montréal) entitled “Population Neuroscience of the Developing Brain”.

Dr Tomáš Paus

Dr Tomáš Paus talks about his research in population neuroscience at the Toronto Trans-generational Brain and Body Centre at Baycrest.

Tomas Paus - Membre 2023 de la Société royale du Canada

Profile

Biography

Dr. Paus is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Montreal, and Scientist at the Research Centre of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine.

During the first 20 years of his scientific pursuits, he worked on functional and structural organization of the human brain using a variety of approaches including studies of patients with brain lesions, functional and structural neuroimaging, and brain stimulation.

In the last 20 years, his work integrates epidemiology, neuroscience and genetics – through a new discipline of population neuroscience - in the pursuit of knowledge relevant for brain health. This research draws on data acquired in a number of cohorts based in North and South America and Europe.

The work published by Dr. Paus and his colleagues has been well received by peers, being cited in over 71,000 publications. In 2013, Springer published his book “Population Neuroscience”. Dr. Paus received the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, Gold Medal of the Masaryk University, is an elected member of the International Neuropsychology Symposium and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He serves as Associate Editor of the Human Brain Mapping and Social Neuroscience, and is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards in Europe and North America.

Awards and recognitions

  • The Royal Society of Canada - 2023

Affiliations and responsabilities

Research affiliations

Research units

Membre

Affiliated institutions

  • Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine)

Teaching and supervision

Projects

Research projects

2023 - 2030

Combining Space, Time, and cell types to decode and explain the effect sizes of rare genomic variants on cognition and psychopathology

Lead researcher : Sébastien Jacquemont
Co-researchers : Guy Wolf , Guillaume Dumas , Tomas Paus , Celia Greenwood
Funding sources: IRSC/Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(PJT) Subvention Projet
2021 - 2027

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term

Lead researcher : Tomas Paus
Co-researchers : Zdenka Pausova
Funding sources: IRSC/Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(PJT) Subvention Projet
2021 - 2023

Canabis and brain maturation: A population-based study

Lead researcher : Tomas Paus
Funding sources: IRSC/Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(PJT) Subvention Projet
2021 - 2023

The Oslo—Toronto Alliance in Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition-Next years

Lead researcher : Tomas Paus
Funding sources: The Research Council of Norway
Grant programs:
2020 - 2023

La variété des voies personnelles de la santé physique et mentale de l'enfance à l'âge adulte

Funding sources: Fondation de l'Hôpital Ste-Justine
Grant programs:

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Disciplines

  • Neurosciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Genetics
  • Developmental Pediatrics

Areas of expertise

  • Growth Factors (Neurosciences)
  • Cognitive Development in Children
  • Population Genetics
  • Cell Signaling (Neurosciences)
  • Genetic Mapping
  • Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.)
  • Infant / Child Development
  • Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth
  • Computer Databases
  • Gene-Environment Interactions
  • Biological Behavior