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Maged Goubran

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Medical BiophysicsUniversity of Toronto

Maged Goubran

Associate Professor

Department of Medical Biophysics

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience

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67 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 11 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (5 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Publications

309

Citations

119

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

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Alzheimer'S Disease Amyloid Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Cerebrovascular Disease Cognition Fluid High-Field Mri Inflammation

Latest papers

Sleep apnea physiology and MRI-enlarged perivascular spaces in community-dwelling adults.
Sleep medicine · 2026
Multi-target focused ultrasound neuromodulation of a subcallosal cingulate mediated depression network: A case study using personalized functional mapping.
Brain stimulation · 2026
EXPRESS: It's not all rapid dilations: on contributions of constrictions, biphasic and minute-long vessel responses to brain functional hyperemia.
Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026

All 82 publications

Latest funding

Network-Guided Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$550,800
Early-stage in vivo biomarkers of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated inflammation in Alzheimer's disease
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$810,900
Investigating the dynamics of neocortical neurogenesis: a proneural gene perspective
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,147,500

All 18 grants and awards

82 publications.

Sleep apnea physiology and MRI-enlarged perivascular spaces in community-dwelling adults.

Sommer R, Gibson E, Centen A, Ramirez J, MacIntosh BJ, Goubran M, Black SE, Lim ASP

Sleep medicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2026.109090 PMID: 42361658

Multi-target focused ultrasound neuromodulation of a subcallosal cingulate mediated depression network: A case study using personalized functional mapping.

Davidson B, Jones RM, McMahon D, Xhima K, Bocca LF, Huang Y, Blanco S, Pople CB, Giacobbe P, Nestor SM, Rabin JS, Hamani C, Uludag K, Goubran M, Hynynen K, Lipsman N

Brain stimulation2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2026.103198 PMID: 42692166

EXPRESS: It's not all rapid dilations: on contributions of constrictions, biphasic and minute-long vessel responses to brain functional hyperemia.

Rozak M, Dorr A, Pineau E, Patel S, Chen K, Attarpour A, Goubran M, Stefanovic B

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2026

DOI: 10.1177/0271678x261462691 PMID: 42415337

Sex Differences in Memory Performance after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats.

Robson IK, Rabelo TK, Almeida Souza TH, McCann E, Nestor SM, Goubran M, Lipsman N, Hamani C

Neurotrauma reports2026

DOI: 10.1177/2689288x261461855 PMID: 42539381

Apoptosis protein markers in comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression; relationships with cognitive performance, incident dementia, and white matter hyperintensities.

Perfetto SE, Ruthirakuhan M, Wong YY, Ryoo SW, Huang CHL, Fan F, Chenoweth MJ, Nestor SM, Andreazza AC, Goubran M, Rabin JS, Jiang G, Black SE, Cogo-Moreira H, MacIntosh BJ, Swardfager W

Journal of affective disorders2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2026.122353 PMID: 42556583

Sex differences in the effects of deep brain stimulation on traumatic brain injury-induced cognitive deficits in rats.

Robson IK, Rabelo TK, Almeida Souza TH, McCann E, Bittencourt GN, Surendrakumar S, Nestor SM, Goubran M, Covolan L, Soto-Montenegro ML, Lipsman N, Hamani C

Experimental neurology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2026.116033 PMID: 42764038

Stable neuronal representations underlie cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology.

Chen K, Pineau E, Koletar M, Trevisiol A, He JS, Hill M, Goubran M, Sled J, McLaurin J, Stefanovic B

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2026

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71570 PMID: 42252511

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Davidson B, Clappison A, Mithani K, Bocca LF, Giacobbe P, Nestor S, Meng Y, Ottoy J, Rabin JS, Burke M, Uludag K, Hamani C, Lipsman N, Goubran M

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.01.011 PMID: 41672276

Mamba-based deep learning approach for sleep staging on a wireless multimodal wearable system without electroencephalography.

Zhang AH, He-Mo A, Yin RF, Li C, Tang Y, Gurve D, van der Horst V, Buchman AS, Ghahjaverestan NM, Goubran M, Wang B, Lim ASP

Sleep2026

DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsag022 PMID: 41649157

The Canadian multi-ethnic research on aging (CAMERA) study: Design, participant characteristics, and preliminary findings.

Marawi T, Rai H, Kumar R, Vandeloo KL, Yep R, Alexander MW, Boshmaf SZ, Chen SM, Gopinath G, Malhotra S, Zhang A, Nyman AJ, Perri LX, Sit V, Splinter TFL, Munoz DP, Swardfager W, Ryan JD, Black SE, Goubran M, Rabin JS

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2026

DOI: 10.1002/alz.71344 PMID: 41981367

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Maged Goubran

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Sleep apnea physiology and MRI-enlarged perivascular spaces in community-dwelling adults.

Multi-target focused ultrasound neuromodulation of a subcallosal cingulate mediated depression network: A case study using personalized functional mapping.

EXPRESS: It's not all rapid dilations: on contributions of constrictions, biphasic and minute-long vessel responses to brain functional hyperemia.

Sex Differences in Memory Performance after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats.

Apoptosis protein markers in comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression; relationships with cognitive performance, incident dementia, and white matter hyperintensities.

Sex differences in the effects of deep brain stimulation on traumatic brain injury-induced cognitive deficits in rats.

Stable neuronal representations underlie cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology.

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Mamba-based deep learning approach for sleep staging on a wireless multimodal wearable system without electroencephalography.

The Canadian&#xa0;multi-ethnic&#xa0;research on&#xa0;aging (CAMERA) study: Design, participant characteristics, and preliminary findings.

Frequent collaborators

Mario Masellis

Nir Lipsman

Clement Hamani

Julie Ottoy

Benjamin Davidson

Walter Swardfager

Peter Giacobbe

Bojana Stefanovic

Robert Bartha

Ying Meng

Demetrios Sahlas

Joanne McLaurin

Kullervo Hynynen

Jean-Paul Soucy

Jean-Claude Tardif

Gustavo Saposnik

Michael Borrie

Sanjeev Kumar

Dar Dowlatshahi

Stephen Strother

Michael Noseworthy

Richard Frayne

Katherine Zukotynski

Vesna Sossi

Sean Nestor

Asaf Gilboa

Ivy Cheng

Robert Fowler

Alexander Thiel

John Turnbull

Allison Sekuler

Andrew Frank

Vincent Gaudet

Alan Moody

David Grimes

Elizabeth Finger

Arjun Sahgal

Dariush Dowlatshahi

Dallas Seitz

Angela Roberts

The Canadian multi-ethnic research on aging (CAMERA) study: Design, participant characteristics, and preliminary findings.