Viviane Sziklas

Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University Street
Montreal, PQ, H3A 2B4
514-398-8904
viviane.sziklas at mcgill.ca

Dr. Sziklas’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying various forms of learning and memory. The goal of her research program is to examine the nature and specificity of the behavioural impairment after damage to different components of the medial temporal lobe system in patients with focal epilepsy. Additional research involves studies of nonmemory processes in patients with focal epilepsy and test development for assessment of cognitive function in various clinical neurological populations.

Banks, S.J., Jones-Gotman, M., Ladowski, D., Sziklas, V. (2012). Sex differences in the medial temporal lobe during encoding and recognition of pseudowords and abstract designs. NeuroImage, 59 (2), 1888-1895

Banks, S, Sziklas, V, Djordjevic, J, Golinski, R, Jones-Gotman, M. (2010). Awareness of deficits during intracarotid anesthetic procedures in epilepsy: Comparisons of motor, naming, and comprehension awareness under amobarbital versus under etomidate. Epilepsy and Behavior, 19, 591–595

Dumont, J., Petrides, M., Sziklas, V. (2010). Fornix and Retrosplenial Contribution to a Hippocampo-Thalamic Circuit Underlying Conditional Learning. Behavioural Brain Research, (January 6, ePub ahead of print)

Jones-Gotman M, Sziklas, V, Djordjevic J. (2009) Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure and Etomidate Speech and Memory Test. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 36(Suppl 2), S51-54.

St-Laurent, M., Petrides, M., Sziklas, V. (2009) Does the cingulate cortex contribute to spatial conditional associative learning in the rat? Hippocampus, 19, 612–622.

Sziklas, V. & Jonesgotman, M. (2008) RAVLT and nonverbal analog: French forms and clinical findings. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 35(3):323-30.

Dumont, J., Petrides, M. & Sziklas, V. (2007). Functional dissociation between fornix and hippocampus in spatial conditional learning. Hippocampus, 17 (12), 1170-1179.

Sziklas, V. & Petrides, M. (2007). Contribution of the anterior thalamic nuclei to conditional learning in rats. Hippocampus, 17(6), 456-61.

Henry, J., Petrides, M., St-Laurent, M., & Sziklas, V. (2004). Spatial conditional associative learning: The effects of thalamo-hippocampal disconnection on conditional associative learning in rats. NeuroReport, 15 (15), 2427-2431.