Martin Parent

Dr. Martin Parent is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine of Laval University, in Quebec City, Canada. He is also a researcher at the CERVO Brain Research Centre. He received his PhD from Laval University in 2006 and then moved to Montreal to work as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Laurent Descarries, renowned for his elegant work on the morphological aspects of neuronal transmission. He subsequently spent a short period at Lund University in Sweden, where he worked with Dr. Angela Cenci on animal models of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia. Dr. Parent has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on the anatomical and functional organization of the basal ganglia under normal and pathological conditions, using postmortem human brain tissue and animal models.