The Neuro Team
Gilles Bertrand, MD
Besides working closely with many of the Institute's basic and clinical research teams, neurosurgeons at the Montreal Neurological Hospital pursue independent research interests. Dr. Gilles Bertrand with Dr. Herbert Jasper, carried out pioneering work on cellular unit recording of the human thalamus in awake patients operated on for Parkinson's Disease. Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Chris Thompson were the first to introduce computers to stereotactic surgery for the treatment of Parkinsonian tremor. Dr. Bertrand has demonstrated that syringomyelia is often due to hydrodynamic problems in the cerebrospinal fluid circulation with partial obstruction of the CSF pathways; he has developed surgical techniques to establish freer cerebrospinal fluid circulation.
