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Boris Bernhardt

ResearcherNeurology and NeurosurgeryMcGill University

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Boris Bernhardt

Researcher

Neurology and Neurosurgery

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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34 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (8 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 4 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2024.

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Research

Epilepsy Mri Connectomics Neuroimaging Epilepsy Surgery Hippocampus Mesiotemporal Lobe Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Latest papers

State-dependent signal flow hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex.
Nature neuroscience · 2026
Multiscale characterization of cortical signatures in positive and negative schizotypy: a worldwide ENIGMA study.
Molecular psychiatry · 2026
An open dataset of cerebral tau deposition in young healthy adults based on [18F]MK6240 positron emission tomography.
Scientific data · 2026 · senior author

All 58 publications

Latest funding

Precision neuroimaging of the healthy and epileptic mesiotemporal lobe
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,017,450
Towards improved MRI biomarkers for children with pharmaco-resistant seizures
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,078,650
Multimodal in vivo imaging of tauopathy in temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical and cognitive associations
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$120,000

All 18 grants and awards

58 publications.

State-dependent signal flow hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex.

Oh Y, Ann Y, Lee JJ, Ito T, Froudist-Walsh S, Paquola C, Milham M, Spreng RN, Margulies D, Bernhardt B, Woo CW, Hong SJ

Nature neuroscience2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02389-8 PMID: 42680907

Multiscale characterization of cortical signatures in positive and negative schizotypy: a worldwide ENIGMA study.

Kirschner M, Hodzic-Santor B, Kennedy L, Hansen JY, Antoniades M, Nenadić I, Kircher T, Krug A, Meller T, Dannlowski U, Grotegerd D, Flinkenflügel K, Meinert S, Borgers T, Goltermann J, Hahn T, Böhnlein J, Leehr EJ, Barkhau C, Fornito A, Arnatkeviciute A, Bellgrove MA, Tiego J, DeRosse P, Green M, Quidé Y, Pantelis C, Chan RCK, Wang Y, Ettinger U, Debbané M, Derome M, Gaser C, Besteher B, Diederen K, Spencer TJ, Houenou J, Pomarol-Clotet E, Salvador R, Rössler W, Smigielski L, Kumari V, Premkumar P, Park HRP, Wiebels K, Jansen I, Gilleen J, Allen P, Marsman JB, Lebedeva I, Tomyshev A, Fett AK, Sommer I, Koops S, Grant P, Ferrari A, Wan B, Bègue I, Hernaus D, Jalbrzikowski M, Paquola C, Larivière S, Bernhardt B, Valk SL, Misic B, van Erp TGM, Turner JA, Thompson PM, Aleman A, Dagher A, Kaiser S, Modinos G

Molecular psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03547-x PMID: 42000906

An open dataset of cerebral tau deposition in young healthy adults based on [18F]MK6240 positron emission tomography.

Lam J, Rodriguez-Cruces R, Arafat T, Royer J, Chen J, Dascal A, Sahlas E, Pana R, Hopewell R, Hsiao CH, Massarweh G, Soucy JP, Rosa-Neto P, Villeneuve S, Caciagli L, Koepp M, Bernasconi A, Bernasconi N, Bernhardt B

Scientific data2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-026-07656-8 PMID: 42401601

Global Socioeconomic Context and Brain Ageing in Epilepsy: an ENIGMA-Epilepsy study.

Pardoe HR, Devinsky O, Bbiomed Hons JR, Ireland M, Absil J, Altmann A, Alvim MK, Arienzo D, Ballerini A, Barbi E, Bartolini E, Bauer T, Bernasconi A, Bernasconi N, Bernhardt B, Blackmon K, Bonanni P, Bonilha L, Bosco P, Bunyamin J, Caligiuri ME, Cendes F, Christin R, Concha L, Courtney MR, Cruces RR, Danieli A, Davis KA, Depondt C, Dugan P, Duma GM, Duncan JS, Engel J, Atuesta CF, Focke NK, Fortunato F, Gagliardo C, Galovic M, Gambardella A, Gholipour T, Gleichgerrcht E, Guerrini R, Gule MV, Heide EC, Inati S, Ives-Deliperi V, Jackson GD, Jacobs S, Jahanshad N, Kleen JK, Kotikalapudi R, Koubeissi MZ, Labate A, Larivère S, Lenge M, Martins H, Mascalchi M, Meletti S, Moloney PB, O'Brien TJ, Owens-Walton C, Parodi C, Riva A, Roth RW, Royer J, Rüber T, Saba L, Sammarra I, Scárdua-Silva L, Schubert KM, Sepeta L, Severino M, Sinclair B, Sinha N, Staba RJ, Stein DJ, Stein JM, Stoub TR, Striano P, Surges R, Terziev R, Thomopoulos SI, Tondelli M, Tortora D, Vacca S, Vaudano AE, Vivash L, Williams KC, Yasuda CL, Zhang Z, Kaestner E, Thompson PM, Sisodiya SM, McDonald CR

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.30.26352177 PMID: 42388885

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.

Jiang H, Rodriguez-Cruces R, Xie K, Kebets V, Wang Y, Weber CF, He Y, Kember J, Sweatman H, Tabuenca ZG, Poline JB, Bzdok D, Hong SJ, Bernhardt B, Chai X

NeuroImage2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121775 PMID: 41651092

Asymmetric developmental bifurcations in polarized environments: a new class of human variants, which may include autism.

Mottron L, Lavigne-Champagne A, Bernhardt B, Dumas G, Jacquemont S, Gagnon D

Molecular psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-025-03275-8 PMID: 41023420

MRI-negative epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Gill RS, Deleo F, Bernhardt B, Wiebe S, Bernasconi N, Bernasconi A

Epilepsia2025

DOI: 10.1111/epi.18616 PMID: 40827585

The spatial layout of antagonistic brain regions is explicable based on geometric principles.

Leech R, Braga RM, Haydock D, Vowles N, Jefferies E, Bernhardt B, Turkheimer F, Alberti F, Margulies D, Sherwood O, Jones EJ, Smallwood J, Váša F

Communications biology2025

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08295-2 PMID: 40483283

Neurogenetic phenotypes of learning-dependent plasticity for improved perceptual decisions.

Lee LY, Ziminski JJ, Frangou P, Karlaftis VM, Wang Y, Bernhardt B, Warrier V, Bethlehem RAI, Kourtzi Z

Communications biology2025

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08212-7 PMID: 40399642

Self-reports map the landscape of task states derived from brain imaging.

Mckeown B, Goodall-Halliwell I, Wallace R, Chitiz L, Mulholland B, Karapanagiotidis T, Hardikar S, Strawson W, Turnbull A, Vanderwal T, Ho N, Wang HT, Xu T, Milham M, Wang X, Zhang M, Gonzalez Alam TR, Vos de Wael R, Bernhardt B, Margulies D, Wammes J, Jefferies E, Leech R, Smallwood J

Communications psychology2025

DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00184-y PMID: 39843761

Precision neuroimaging of the healthy and epileptic mesiotemporal lobe

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris

Keywords: 7 Tesla; Connectomics; Epilepsy; Gradients; Hippocampus; Mesiotemporal Lobe; Microstructure; Mri; Neuroimaginf

$1,017,450

Towards improved MRI biomarkers for children with pharmaco-resistant seizures

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris; Dudley, Roy W; Schrader, Dewi V; Weil, Alexander G

Keywords: Childhood Epilepsy; Epilepsy; Epilepsy Surgery; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mri; Neurpimaging

$1,078,650

Multimodal in vivo imaging of tauopathy in temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical and cognitive associations

SupervisorCIHR2024Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Lam, Jackie

Keywords: Cognitive; Epilepsy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Multimodal; Neuroimaging; Outcomes; Positron Emission Tomography

$120,000

Neurocognitive aging and decision-making

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Spreng, Robert N; Turner, Gary R

Keywords: Aging; Brain; Decision-Making; Neuroimaging

$1,138,100

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2023Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris

Keywords: Crc

$500,000

Charting subject-specific tau propagation along the gradients of brain connectivity in Alzheimer's disease

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Goubran, Maged

Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Cognitive Impairment; Computational Analyses; Connectomics; Disease Phenotypes; Machine Learning; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Positron Emission Tomography; Subtyping And Staging; Tau Spread

$722,926

Linking genetics and neuroimaging in the common epilepsies

SupervisorCIHR2023Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Ngo, Alexander

Keywords: Brain Organization; Development; Epilepsy; Genetic Variants; Genetics; Neuroimaging

$105,000

Precision neuroimaging of atypical brain network hierarchy in autism

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris

Keywords: 7 Tesla; Autism; Connectomics; Mri; Neuroimaging

$883,575

Parsing heterogeneity in the autism spectrum through a developmental cognitive and brain perspective

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Soulières, Isabelle

Keywords: Autism; Cognitive Development; Fmri; Functional Connectivity; Intelligence; Neuropsychology; Reasoning

$527,850

Neuroimaging of disease progression and tauopathy in temporal lobe epilepsy

Nominated PICIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris; Ladbon Bernasconi, Neda

Keywords: Cognitive Decline; Connectomics; Epilepsy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuroimaging; Tau Imaging

$734,400

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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Boris Bernhardt

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Latest funding

State-dependent signal flow hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex.

Multiscale characterization of cortical signatures in positive and negative schizotypy: a worldwide ENIGMA study.

An open dataset of cerebral tau deposition in young healthy adults based on [18F]MK6240 positron emission tomography.

Global Socioeconomic Context and Brain Ageing in Epilepsy: an ENIGMA-Epilepsy study.

Morphometric dissimilarity in association cortices linked to autism subtype with more severe symptoms.

Asymmetric developmental bifurcations in polarized environments: a new class of human variants, which may include autism.

MRI-negative epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The spatial layout of antagonistic brain regions is explicable based on geometric principles.

Neurogenetic phenotypes of learning-dependent plasticity for improved perceptual decisions.

Self-reports map the landscape of task states derived from brain imaging.

Frequent collaborators

Paolo Federico

Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok

Birgit Frauscher

Birgit Frauscher

Bratislav Misic

Alain Dagher

Guillaume Dumas

Tamara Vanderwal

Sophia Frangou

Jean-Baptiste Poline

Tanguy Hedrich

Sebastien Jacquemont

Jean Gotman

Tanguy Hedrich

Pedro Rosa-Neto

Tanguy Hedrich

Christophe Grova

Sylvain Baillet

Xiaoqian Chai

Yasser Iturria Medina

Etienne Vachon-Presseau

Alan Evans

Jorge Armony

Laurent Mottron

Michael Petrides

Jean Gotman

Pia Wintermark

Christophe Grova

Sebastien Jacquemont

Evdokia Anagnostou

Ridha Joober

Ridha Joober

Sylvia Villeneuve

Véronique Bohbot