Ravi Menon
In patients with multiple sclerosis, physical changes such as deficits in speech and movement can be studied to understand the progression of the disease. However, significant cognitive changes such as memory loss and concentration problems also have a profound impact on patients’ quality of life.
Ravi Menon and his team use sophisticated ultra-high field MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) techniques to understand brain structures and function, and visualize the damage caused by conditions such as autism, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.
This research helps to facilitate methods of earlier diagnosis and disease progression monitoring for these conditions, and offers insight into how these cognitive changes in the brain could be fixed.
Ravi Menon, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging and the scientific co-director of the neuroscience research initiative BrainsCAN. He was named twice on Canada's Top 40 under 40 list, and was one of 20 recipients of the Explorers Medal from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2015, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s highest award in the arts and sciences.
He completed his MSc in Medical Biophysics at McGill University, and his PhD in Medicine at the University of Alberta. Learn about opportunities to work with Dr. Menon at the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. Visit Ravi Menon on Twitter: @northernthrux.
