Dr. Caroline Paquette
Associate Dean, Administration - Faculty of Education | Director, Human Brain Control of Locomotion (HBCL) Laboratory
- Motor Control
- Neuroimaging
- Non-invaisive Brain Stimulation
- Neuroscience
- Movement Disorders
- Stroke
- Aging
- Electromyography
- Motion Analysis, Movement Monitors
- Locomotor Adaptation
Dr. Paquette is a kinesiologist specialized in motor control, more specifically in balance and locomotion and the director of the Human Brain Control of Locomotion laboratory at McGill University. Her work integrates biomechanics, non-invasive brain stimulation and brain imaging to better understand how our brain controls balance and locomotion. By advancing our understanding of how the brain control complex walking, she strives to help older adults and people with neurological impairment to regain or improve in their mobility as well as push athletic performance by developing potential evidence informed add-on tools and therapies. Her work is published in several high impact journals including: Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Neuroimage, Neuroscience, Gait & Posture, Neurorehabilitation and neural repair, Scientific Reports, Parkinsonism & related disorders.
- Postdoctoral, Neurology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Canada
- Postdoctoral, Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
- PhD, Rehabilitation Science, McGill University, Canada
- MSc, Kinesiology, Laval University, Canada
- BSc, Kinesiology, Laval University, Canada
- Liu Y, Wu T, Iordachita II, Paquette C, Kazanzides P. Analysis of Human Head Motion and robotic Compensation for PET Imaging Studies. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 Nov;2021:4836-4839.
- Potvin-Desrochers A, Paquette C. Potential non-invasive brain stimulation targets to alleviate freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience. 2021 Aug 1;468:366-376.
- Edwards J, Black S, Boe S, Boyd L, Chaves A, Chen R, Dukelow S, Fung J, Kirton A, Meltzer J, Moussavi Z, Neva J, Paquette C, Ploughman M, Pooyania S, Rajji T, Roig M, Tremblay F, Thiel A. Canadian Platform for Trials in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (CanStim) Consensus Recommendations for Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Upper Extremity Motor Stroke Rehabilitation Trials. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2021 Feb 35(2):103-116.
- Hinton D, Conradsson D, Paquette C. Understanding human neural control of short-term gait adaptation to the split-belt treadmill Neuroscience. 2020 Dec 451(15):36-50.
- Potvin-Desrochers A, Mitchell T, Gisiger T, Paquette C. Changes in resting-state functional connectivity related to freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease. Neuroscience. 2019 Oct 15;418;311-317.
- Hinton D, Thiel A, Soucy JP, Bouyer L, Paquette C. Adjusting gait step-by-step: Brain activation during split-belt treadmill walking. Neuroimage. 2019 Nov 15;202:116095.
- Conradsson D, Hinton D, Paquette C. The effects of dual-tasking on temporal gait adaptation and de-adaptation to the split-belt treadmill in older adults. Experimental Gerontology. 2019 Oct 1;125:110655.
- Mitchell T, Conradsson D, Paquette C. Gait and trunk kinematics during prolonged turning in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2019 Jul;64:188-193.
- Mitchell T, Potvin-Desrochers A, Lafontaine AL, Monchi O, Thiel A, Paquette C. Cerebral metabolic changes in Parkinson’s disease with freezing of gait during complex walking. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2019 May;60(5):671-676.
- Mitchell T, Starrs F, Soucy JP, Thiel A, Paquette C. Impaired sensorimotor processing during complex gait precedes behavioral changes in middle-aged adults. Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences. 2019 Dec;74(12):1861–1869.
Accepting Master's and Ph.D students for the 2024-25 academic year.
