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Dana Small, PhD

Academic title(s): 

Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Department of Medicine

Division: 
Neuroscience
Location: 
Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)
Biography: 

Dana M Small is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Brain and Metabolism. She holds primary appointments in Neurology and Neurosurgery and in Internal Medicine.  Professor Small received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in 2001 and subsequently established her lab at Yale University, where she was on faculty for 20 years.   Her research combines neuroimaging and metabolic measurements to understand how the brain and body integrate signals from the external environment and the internal milieu to optimize behaviour and metabolism.   Her laboratory also studies how dysregulation of these body-brain axes contribute to the development of obesity, diabetes, cognitive impairment and psychiatric disorders.

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