Dr. Louis Éric Trudeau

Biography

Professor Trudeau is a neuropharmacologist and neurobiologist interested in the mechanisms of neuronal communication in the brain, particularly in neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopaminergic neurons are the target of many medications, such as antipsychotics used in treating schizophrenia and psychostimulants used for attention disorders. Some of these neurons degenerate in Parkinson's disease. His laboratory seeks to understand the functioning of these neurons and the reasons for their degeneration in that disease. He began his training with a bachelor's degree in psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, followed by a master's in neuroscience at the University of Paris, France. He obtained his PhD in neuroscience from the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, affiliated with the Université de Montréal, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the United States before joining the pharmacology department at Université de Montréal in 1997. His laboratory is part of the Research Group on the Central Nervous System, which includes neuroscience laboratories on the Université de Montréal campus.

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