Research
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Latest papers
Using reference intervals to improve interpretation of youth sport-related concussion biomarkers using a research platform.
Brain communications · 2026
The influence of sport-related concussion history on standing balance during upper limb movements under varying attentional demands.
Experimental brain research · 2025
Plasma Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion.
JAMA network open · 2024
Latest funding
- $1,500,000
You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $120,000
Examining sleep, activity and exercise intolerance on the recovery of neural processing deficits in adolescents following sport-related concussion
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $120,000
Regulatory mechanisms of cerebral blood flow in humans
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Using reference intervals to improve interpretation of youth sport-related concussion biomarkers using a research platform.
Achalu K, Cooper JG, Tabor JB, Ghodsi M, Huang J, Josafatow-García N, Penner LC, Stukas S, Galarneau JM, Fraser DD, Smirl J, Yeates KO, Debert CT, Emery CA, Wellington CL
The influence of sport-related concussion history on standing balance during upper limb movements under varying attentional demands.
Trotman M, Smirl J, Dierijck J, Kennefick M, van Donkelaar P, Dalton BH
Plasma Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion.
Tabor JB, Penner LC, Galarneau JM, Josafatow N, Cooper J, Ghodsi M, Huang J, Fraser DD, Smirl J, Esser MJ, Yeates KO, Wellington CL, Debert CT, Emery CA
Time-domain methods for quantifying dynamic cerebral blood flow autoregulation: Review and recommendations. A white paper from the Cerebrovascular Research Network (CARNet).
Kostoglou K, Bello-Robles F, Brassard P, Chacon M, Claassen JA, Czosnyka M, Elting JW, Hu K, Labrecque L, Liu J, Marmarelis VZ, Payne SJ, Shin DC, Simpson D, Smirl J, Panerai RB, Mitsis GD
A Four-Country Study of Strangulation-Related Alterations in Consciousness in Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence: Co-Occurrence with Traumatic Brain Injuries and Measures of Psychological Distress.
Adhikari SP, Daugherty JC, Quiroz Molinares N, Maldonado-Rodriguez N, Wallace C, Smirl J, Perez-García M, De Los Reyes-Aragón CJ, Hidalgo-Ruzzante N, van Donkelaar P, Valera EM
Autonomic dysfunction in adults following mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review.
Mercier LJ, Batycky J, Campbell C, Schneider K, Smirl J, Debert CT
Early targeted heart rate aerobic exercise for sport-related concussion.
Emery CA, Smirl J
You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions
Principal investigators: Emery, Carolyn A; Fuselli, Pamela A; Paulgaard, Julia R; Babul, Shelina; Belton, Kathy L; Macpherson, Alison; Mchugh, Tara-Leigh; Moore, Sarah A; Ramsay, Scott; Reed, Nicholas; Russell, Kelly F; Schneider, Kathryn J
Keywords: Concussion; Epidemiology; Injury; Mixed-Methods; Peer-Support; Prevention; Risk Factors; Sport; Surveillance; Youth
Examining sleep, activity and exercise intolerance on the recovery of neural processing deficits in adolescents following sport-related concussion
Principal investigators: Neill, Matthew
Keywords: Activity; Exercise Intolerance; Neurophysiology; Sleep; Sport-Related Concussion
Regulatory mechanisms of cerebral blood flow in humans
Principal investigators: Smirl, Jonathan
Keywords: cerebral blood flow regulation; cerebral autoregulation; cerebrovascular reactivity; neurovascular coupling; exercise influence; sex differences; cardiorespiratory fitness; adolesent; pediatric; adult
Regulatory mechanisms of cerebral blood flow in humans
Principal investigators: Smirl, Jonathan
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Paul van Donkelaar and Jonathan Smirl: 2 shared papers
- Kathryn Schneider and Jonathan Smirl: 1 shared paper
- Jonathan Smirl and Patrice Brassard: 1 shared paper
- Health and Exercise Sciences
- Psychology
- Kinésiologie
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