Marina Martinez
Department of Neurosciences,
Faculté de Médecine,
Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC),
Department of Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine
Université de Montréal
Dr. Marina Martinez received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Aix-Marseille, France in 2009. She then pursued postdoctoral studies in Pr. Serge Rossignol’s laboratory, at the University of Montreal, Canada, and then joined the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy in 2014. She was then recruited as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Montreal and as a member of the Centre de Recherche de l'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in 2016.
The primary focus of her research is the neural basis of motor recovery after lesions to the central nervous system, in particular spinal cord injuries. Her lab uses animal models and a combination of electrophysiological, behavioural and anatomical techniques to study the link between neuroplasticity mechanisms and functional recovery after spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation strategies aimed at guiding recovery are also developed in her lab.
Her work is funded by the main federal and provincial agencies in addition to several spinal cord injury foundations.
Chapter 16--spinal plasticity in the recovery of locomotion.
Progress in brain research , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21333814
Recovery of hindlimb locomotion after incomplete spinal cord injury in the cat involves spontaneous compensatory changes within the spinal locomotor circuitry.
Journal of neurophysiology Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21775717
Incomplete spinal cord injury promotes durable functional changes within the spinal locomotor circuitry.
Journal of neurophysiology Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22490556
Effect of locomotor training in completely spinalized cats previously submitted to a spinal hemisection.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22875930
A dual spinal cord lesion paradigm to study spinal locomotor plasticity in the cat.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23531010
Treadmill training promotes spinal changes leading to locomotor recovery after partial spinal cord injury in cats.
Journal of neurophysiology Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23554433
Emergence of deletions during treadmill locomotion as a function of supraspinal and sensory inputs.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23843528
The "beneficial" effects of locomotor training after various types of spinal lesions in cats and rats.
Progress in brain research , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25890137
Plastic Changes in Lumbar Locomotor Networks after a Partial Spinal Cord Injury in Cats.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26109667
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