Research Engineer, Neurofunctional Imaging Group (GIN), Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases (IMN), Bordeaux Neurocampus
After obtaining her PhD in Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, during which she characterized the frontal lobe executive dysfunction in patients with focal frontal lobe lesions, Ami Tsuchida found her passion in using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to non-invasively investigate brain structural and functional organizations.
She joined the Neurofunctional Imaging Group (GIN) at the Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute (IMN) at University of Bordeaux as a research engineer specialized in neuroimaging analysis of cerebral small vessel diseases (cSVD). Her work focuses on characterizing both established and novel markers of cSVD across multiple cohorts covering the adult lifespan and collaborating with multi-omic teams to uncover molecular mechanisms underlying cSVD pathophysiology.
She is currently interested in emerging MRI-based markers of the glymphatic system, a recently proposed mechanism for waste clearance in the brain, and coordinating a project aimed to explore the interrelationships between glymphatic function, vascular pathology, and neurodegenerative processes to better understand and promote healthy brain aging.
Ami did her first post-doc with the legendary neuropsychologist Brenda Milner at McGill, when Brenda was already in her mid-nineties. Alongside neuroscience, Brenda tried her best to teach Ami the uncompromising rules of British-English dictation, correcting all her hyphens, colons, and other punctuation subtleties that to this day, Ami is not entirely sure she gets right. Regardless, Ami remains an avid reader and can rarely be caught without her KOBO (Canadian) e-reader.
