Jason Lerch
Senior Scientist
Neurosciences & Mental Health
SickKids
Canada
Biography
Dr. Lerch completed his PhD in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, where he focused on the study of cortical thickness from human MR images, and followed that with a post-doctoral fellowship at MICe at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He joined SickKids as a scientist in 2008 and is working both with the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) as well as the human imaging group.
Research Interest
Brain plasticity: how the shape of the brain changes in response to learning Neurodevelopmental disorders: from genes to systems to behaviour to treatment
