{"id":170,"date":"2020-12-29T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:56:59","slug":"historique","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/historique\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was on his return from a postdoctoral training at Stanford University that Dr. Jacques Montplaisir founded the Sleep Disorders Center at the H\u00f4pital du Sacr\u00e9-Coeur de Montreal. The Center had only one sleep recording room for patients and research project volunteers. The staff included only one coordinator, Mireille Charron, who held this position until her retirement in 2018. The Center's main research themes were narcolepsy and epilepsy.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Marie Laverdi\u00e8re was the first student to obtain her doctorate under Dr. Jacques Montplaisir\u2019s supervision. In the following years, Marie Dumont and Roger Godbout carried out their doctoral studies. At the same time, Ga\u00e9tan Poirier completed his master's degree in neuroscience and began working as a research assistant and software programmer in the Center. He played a major role in technological developments until his retirement in 2020.<\/span>\n  <\/span>The sleep recording room was initially dedicated to sleep research however, on occasion, Dr. Montplaisir received patients with various sleep pathologies. Over the years, consultation requests increased and the laboratory gradually acquired a dual vocation of research and clinical services.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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1990<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Upon returning from postdoctoral training at Harvard University, Marie Dumont founded the Chronobiology Laboratory. Roger Godbout pursued postdoctoral studies at McGill University and the Coll\u00e8ge de France and, on his return, developed a research program on sleep and psychiatric diseases. At the same time, two postdoctoral fellows, Tore Nielsen and Dominique Lorrain, and a doctoral student, Dominique Petit, joined the team. Tore Nielsen soon founded the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory. Gilles Lavigne, returning from an internship at the National Institute of Health, joined the Center where he developed a research program on bruxism, sleep and pain.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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1995<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Our researchers obtained a large group grant from the Medical Research Council which has played a vital role in stabilizing and growing our infrastructure. In the following years, it was renewed and enhanced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research until the program ended in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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1999<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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The center's facilities rapidly became insufficient for the growing team. Julie Carrier returned from a postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh and established a research program on sleep and aging. Antonio Zadra, a dream and sleepwalking researcher, also joined the group. The Center took possession of new, completely renovated laboratories at the H\u00f4pital du Sacr\u00e9-Coeur de Montr\u00e9al including recording rooms for sleep disorders (5 rooms), chronobiology (3 temporal isolation rooms) and dreams and nightmares (2 rooms). These laboratories are still operational today.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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In the 2000s, the Center recruited a cardiologist, Paola Lanfranchi, who developed a research program on cardiovascular function in normal and pathological sleep, as well as Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Gagnon and Ronald Postuma who study REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinson's disease.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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The group received a $ 5 million grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation which allowed the construction of a new wing at the H\u00f4pital du Sacr\u00e9-Coeur de Montr\u00e9al. This new construction, completed in 2010, is devoted among other functions, to the study of brain function following traumatic brain injury. It also houses an olfactory laboratory, a transcranial magnetic stimulation laboratory, and a laboratory dedicated to sleep-pain interactions.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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The group welcomed two new researchers, Val\u00e9rie Mongrain, who established a laboratory to study molecular sleep regulation, and Nadia Gosselin, who specialized in the neuropsychology of sleep disorders, degenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Alex Desautels, neurologist, also joined the group and became the Center\u2019s Clinical Director. Dr. Paola Lanfranchi\u2019s significant contributions to cardiovascular function and sleep science unfortunately ended when she left the CARSM in 2012.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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TODAY<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Today the CARSM continues to grow with the arrival of Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Pennestri (infant sleep), Jonathan Brouillette (sleep, memory and aging), Steve Gibbs (neurology of sleep and epilepsy), and Jean-Marc Lina (EEG signal analysis). The recruitment of Simon Warby enabled creation of the Canadian Sleep Disorders Biobank which is managed and hosted in the Center. The CARSM also brings together some forty master's, doctoral and postdoctoral students. New researchers Guido Simonelli and Catherine Duclos, have joined the group to develop research programs on the socio-cultural aspects of sleep and on states of consciousness. Evelyne Touchette has also joined the Center to study sleep in children and teenagers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The recruitment of specialists in priority and emerging sub-disciplines of sleep research continue today as the Center continues to grow and to thrive as one of the few world centers of excellence in sleep medicine. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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1977 C\u2019est \u00e0 son retour d\u2019une formation postdoctorale \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Stanford que le Dr Jacques Montplaisir a mis sur pied le Centre d\u2019\u00e9tude du sommeil \u00e0 l\u2019H\u00f4pital du Sacr\u00e9-Coeur de Montr\u00e9al. Le centre ne disposait que d\u2019une seule chambre d\u2019enregistrement du sommeil pour les patients et pour les volontaires des projets de recherche. \u00c0 cette […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceams-carsm.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}