Neurological Disorders

Emmanuelle Pourcher

Faculty of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Center, Laval University, Canada

Biography

Emmanuelle Pourcher is a movement disorder specialist and the Director of the Quebec Memory & Movement Disorders Research Center (Clinique Sainte Anne Mémoire et Mouvement ) in Quebec City, one of Canada’s largest outpatient Parkinson’s disease centers. Dr. Pourcher was trained as a neurologist at Claude Bernard University in Lyon France and at Laval University in Québec City Canada. Her Movement Disorder Fellowships were done under the tutorships of Professors Paul Bédard (Laval. U), André Barbeau (Montreal U), James Heron (Keele U.), and Yves Agid (Pierre et Marie Currie U.).

Research Interest

pharmacology of Parkinson’s disease, serotonin-dopamine hetero modulation, dopamine and cognition, dopamine and mood, neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease, postural control and balance in movement disorders, pharmacoclinical aspects of the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.