Julie Carrier, Ph.D.

	Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal Research Director of CARSM Co-Director of the Chronobiology Laboratory 514-338-2222 ext. 3124 julie.carrier.1(at)umontreal.ca Education: Post-doctorate in Psychiatry (University of Pittsburgh) Ph.D. in Psychology (Université de Montréal) M.Sc. in Psychology (Université de Montréal) Research Interests: Understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of aging on processes that regulate sleep and biological rhythms. Assess the consequences of age-related changes in sleep-wake cycle on brain plasticity, learning, cognition and postural balance. Estimate the changes in eye and brain sensitivity to light in seasonal affective disorder. Assess the impacts of sleep on cognitive and emotional development. Methodologies: Polysomnography, spectral analysis of the EEG, brain imaging (fMRI), actigraphy, hormonal measurements, light exposure, pupillometry.
Team in training:
	Rosemarie Perreault (Antonio Zadra, co-director)   Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   2010-ongoing   Thesis title: Slow oscillations in sleepwalkers
	Véronique Latreille (Jean-François Gagnon, director)   Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   2010-ongoing   Thesis title: Slow oscillations in REM sleep behavior disorder and   Parkinson's disease
	Véronique Daneault (Marie Dumont, co-director)   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology (Université de Montréal)   2009-ongoing   Thesis title: Brain sensitivity to light during aging.
	Fred Lupien   M.Sc. candidate in Psychology (Université de Montréal)   2009-current   Thesis title: Effects of 400 mg of caffeine on sleep in young and   middle aged people
	Marc Barakat   Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   2007-ongoing   Thesis title: Sleep and motor learning: imaging studies
	Stéphanie Bordeleau (Annie Bernier, director)   Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   2008-ongoing    Thesis title: Sleep and attachment in children
	Marjolaine Lafortune (Jean-François Gagnon, co-director)    Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)    2008-ongoing     Thesis title: Impact of slow oscillations and sleep spindles on cognition    during aging
	Nicolas Martin    Ph.D. candidate in Psychology R/I (Université de Montréal)    2008-ongoing    Thesis title: Effects of age on the synchonization of the EEG: functional    brain imaging study
	Jonathan Godbout (Jean-Marc Lina, director)    M.Sc. candidate at the École de Technologies Supérieures    2010-current     Thesis title: Detection of phasic events during sleep
	Valérie Dostie   Ph.D. candidate in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal)   2004-ongoing   Thesis title: Effects of caffeine on vigilance: effects of age, time and   circadian patterns of consumption
	Rebecca Robillard (François Prince, co-director)     Ph.D. in Neuropsychology R/I (Université de Montréal) since 2011   2004-2011   Thesis title: Sleep deprivation and postural balance

 

 

Recent publications:

 

Robillard R, Lanfranchi P, Prince F, Filipini D, Carrier J. Sleep deprivation increases blood pressure in healthy normotensive elderly and attenuates the blood pressure response to orthostatic challenge. Sleep, in press.

 

Gruber R, Wiebe S, Montecalvo L, Brunetti B, Carrier J. The impact of sleep restriction on neurobehavioral functioning of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Sleep, in press.

 

Carrier J, Viens I, Poirier G, Robillard R, Lafortune M, Vandewalle G, Martin N, Barakat M, Paquet J, Filipini D. Age changes slow waves in the middle years of life. Eur J Neurosci, in press.

 

Barakat M, Doyon J, Debas K, Vandewalle G, Morin A, Poirier G, Martin N, Lafortune M, Karni A, Ungerleider L, Benali H, Carrier J. Fast and slow spindle involvement in the consolidation of a motor sequence. Behav Brain Res, in press.

 

Bernier A, Carlson S, Bordeleau S, Carrier J. Relations between physiological and cognitive regulatory systems: Infant sleep regulation and subsequent executive functioning. Child Dev 2010, 81, 1739-52.

 

Debas K, Carrier J, Orban P, Barakat M, Lungu O, Vandewalle G, Abdallah Hadj T, Bellec P, Karni A, Ungerleider LG, Benali H, Doyon J. The striatum and cerebellum contribute to the consolidation process of distinct motor skill behaviors. PNAS 2010, 107, 17839-44.

 

Hébert S, Fullum S, Carrier J. Polysomnographic and quantitative electroencephalographic correlates of subjective sleep complaints in chronic tinnitus. J Sleep Res, in press.

Robillard R, Massicotte-Marquez J, Kawinska A, Paquet J, Frenette S, Carrier J. Topography of homeostatic sleep pressure dissipation across the night in young and middle-aged men and women. J Sleep Res 2010, 19(3), 455-65.

Carrier J, Paquet J, Fernandez-Bolanos M, Girouard L, Roy J, Selmaoui B, Filipini D. Effects of caffeine on daytime recovery sleep: A double challenge to the sleep-wake cycle in aging. Sleep Med 2009, 10, 1016-24.

Doyon J, Korman M, Morin A, Debas K, Barakat M, Hadj Tahar A, Benali H, Karni A, Ungerleider LG, Carrier J. Contribution of night and day sleep vs. simple passage of time to the consolidation of motor sequence and visuomotor adaptation learning. Exp Brain Res 2009, 195, 15-26.