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Mathieu Roy

ResearcherPsychologyMcGill University

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Mathieu Roy

Researcher

Psychology

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
48 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (5 CIHR, 3 NSERC, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2023.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Brain Imaging Pain Attention Cognition Flow Motivation expectations contextual factors

Latest papers

Clinical features of central sensitization moderate the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in chronic low back pain
Journal of Pain · 2026
A scoping review of music-based pain treatment mechanism research.
Pain reports · 2026 · senior author
Perceived pleasantness mediates the effects of high-arousal and emotionally complex music on pain.
Pain · 2026 · senior author

All 82 publications

Latest funding

Autonomiser les patientes et les patients dans la gestion de la douleur lombaire chronique : Essai randomisé contrôlé pragmatique d'efficacité-implantation d'un programme d'autogestion en ligne coconstruit
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$646,426
Neuroimmune responses to physical exercise training in chronic low back pain
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000
Developing inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$623,475

All 23 grants and awards

82 publications.

Clinical features of central sensitization moderate the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in chronic low back pain

Patricio P, Tittley J, Oliveira FCLD, Roy M, Macedo LG, Roy J-S, Massé-Alarie H

Journal of Pain2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2026.106317

A scoping review of music-based pain treatment mechanism research.

Bradt J, Hirsh A, Jensen MP, Desbarats E, Burns DS, Dusek JA, Garland EL, Georgescu RD, Gumert L, Hanson K, Khawsar J, Smit T, Roy M

Pain reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/pr9.0000000000001467 PMID: 42495015

Perceived pleasantness mediates the effects of high-arousal and emotionally complex music on pain.

Desbarats E, Valevicius D, Lépine Lopez A, Vogel TA, Zatorre RJ, Greenberg DM, Roy M

Pain2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000004108 PMID: 42708339

Associations Between Past and Current Use of Oral Contraceptives and Fear Regulation.

Davignon LM, Brouillard A, Devine S, Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Roy M, Marin MF

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.09.018 PMID: 41033656

Music-based interventions for chronic pain management.

Pando-Naude V, Howlin C, Bradt J, Jespersen K, Roy M, Garza-Villarreal E, Koelsch S, Vuust P

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews2026

DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd016354 PMID: 42138335

The Hypoalgesic Effects of Pleasant Music Are Not Fully Explained by Distraction.

Desbarats É, Diushekeeva A, Vogel TA, Roy M

European journal of pain (London, England)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ejp.70372 PMID: 42695150

The effect of a multimodal exercise program on paraspinal muscle morphology and clinical outcomes in chronic low back pain.

Rosenstein B, Bergevin M, Bobeuf F, Bherer L, Pageaux B, Roy M, Fortin M

Isokinetics and exercise science2026

DOI: 10.1177/09593020261419928 PMID: 42093855

Stress Characteristics and Their Associations With Pain Intensity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Ghoussoub K, Gagnon-Mailhot M, Develay É, Rainville P, Lupien S, Dassieu L, Roy M, Vachon-Presseau É, Pagé MG

European journal of pain (London, England)2026

DOI: 10.1002/ejp.70240 PMID: 41742390

Altered cortical alpha modulations and connectivity in complex regional pain syndrome.

Malan NS, Baillet S, Tankha P, Roy M, Gopalakrishnan R

The journal of pain2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105595 PMID: 41207412

Unraveling the pain trajectory in chronic low back pain patients during a physical exercise training program.

Bergevin M, Bendas A, Bobeuf F, Gentile E, Woznowski-Vu A, Wideman TH, Berryman N, Bherer L, Roy M, Pageaux B

Journal of science and medicine in sport2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2025.07.003 PMID: 40753026

Autonomiser les patientes et les patients dans la gestion de la douleur lombaire chronique : Essai randomisé contrôlé pragmatique d'efficacité-implantation d'un programme d'autogestion en ligne coconstruit

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Page, Gabrielle; Lacasse, Anaïs; Leonard, Guillaume M; Marier Deschênes, Pascale; Massé-Alarie, Hugo; Pinard, Anne-Marie; Roy, Jean-Sébastien

Keywords: Agir Pour Moi; Auto-Efficacité; Autogestion; Douleur Lombaire; Essai Randomisé; Interférence; Qualité De Vie; Variabilité De La Douleur

$646,426

Neuroimmune responses to physical exercise training in chronic low back pain

SupervisorCIHR2025Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program

Principal investigators: Gevers Montoro, Carlos

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Heart Rate Variability; Immune Response; Inflammation; Medial Prefrontal Cortex; Neuroimmune; Physical Exercise Training; Transcriptomics; Vagus Nerve

$140,000

Developing inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vachon-Presseau, Etienne

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Machine Learning; Mri Biomarkers; Race/Ethnicity; Risk Score; Sex/Gender

$623,475

Computational modelling of behavior as a window in the mechanisms of chronic pain.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Coll, Michel-Pierre

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Computational; Learning

$400,860

The Quebec Back Pain Consortium: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Pain Trajectories

Co-investigatorCIHR2023CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes - Team Science

Principal investigators: Massé-Alarie, Hugo; Beraldo Meloto, Carolina; Roy, Jean-Sébastien

Keywords: Low Back Pain

$25,000

Development and performance of a model combining a polygenic risk score and biopsychosocial measures to predict the transition of acute to chronic low back pain

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Beraldo Meloto, Carolina; Grant, Audrey V

Keywords: Acute-To-Chronic Transition; Biopsychosocial Factors; Genetic Variants; Large Scale Cohorts; Low Back Pain; Polygenic Risk Score

$596,700

KEEPING PAIN OUT OF MIND: HOW DOES PAIN COMPETE WITH OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR ACCESS TO CONSCIOUSNESS?

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Roy, Mathieu

Keywords: pain; motivation; cognition; attention; flow; brain imaging

$102,000

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2023Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Roy, Mathieu

Keywords: Crc

$500,000

Brain Imaging of Experimental Pain

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Roy, Mathieu

$135,514

Testing the presence and genetic predictors of stronger placebo effect of personalised treatments

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Roy, Mathieu

Keywords: expectations; contextual factors; social factors; precision medicine; placebo effect

$18,677

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Mathieu Roy

Research

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Latest funding

Clinical features of central sensitization moderate the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in chronic low back pain

A scoping review of music-based pain treatment mechanism research.

Perceived pleasantness mediates the effects of high-arousal and emotionally complex music on pain.

Associations Between Past and Current Use of Oral Contraceptives and Fear Regulation.

Music-based interventions for chronic pain management.

The Hypoalgesic Effects of Pleasant Music Are Not Fully Explained by Distraction.

The effect of a multimodal exercise program on paraspinal muscle morphology and clinical outcomes in chronic low back pain.

Stress Characteristics and Their Associations With Pain Intensity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Altered cortical alpha modulations and connectivity in complex regional pain syndrome.

Unraveling the pain trajectory in chronic low back pain patients during a physical exercise training program.

Autonomiser les patientes et les patients dans la gestion de la douleur lombaire chronique : Essai randomisé contrôlé pragmatique d'efficacité-implantation d'un programme d'autogestion en ligne coconstruit

Neuroimmune responses to physical exercise training in chronic low back pain

Developing inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions

Computational modelling of behavior as a window in the mechanisms of chronic pain.

The Quebec Back Pain Consortium: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Pain Trajectories

Development and performance of a model combining a polygenic risk score and biopsychosocial measures to predict the transition of acute to chronic low back pain

KEEPING PAIN OUT OF MIND: HOW DOES PAIN COMPETE WITH OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR ACCESS TO CONSCIOUSNESS?

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Brain Imaging of Experimental Pain

Testing the presence and genetic predictors of stronger placebo effect of personalised treatments

Frequent collaborators

Pierre Rainville

Etienne Vachon-Presseau

Sylvain Baillet

Maryse Fortin

Luda Diatchenko

Isabelle Peretz

Marie-France Marin

Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

Nathalie Gosselin

Etienne Caron

Benjamin Pageaux

Michel-Pierre Coll

Luciana Macedo

Sonia Lupien

Lise Gauvin

Farzad Khalvati

Elham Emami

Guillaume Léonard

Jefferson Wilson

Sasha Carsen

Christopher Witiw

Danielle Maltais

Neil Duncan

Maryse Bouchard

Eve Tsai

May Choi

Tristan Glatard

Teresa To

Eric Parent

Petra Schweinhardt

Artur Kania

Michael Fehlings

Desmond Kwok

Julien Cohen-Adad

Sylvia Villeneuve

Richard Hovey

Mark Ware

Janet Ronsky

Mohit Kapoor

Sean Christie