Jason Lerch
Professor of Neuroscience
Jason Lerch is the director of Preclinical Imaging at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) at the University of Oxford, an adjunct scientist at the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) of the Hospital for Sick Children and an associate professor in medical biophysics at the University of Toronto.
Lerch joined WIN in March of 2019; prior to that, he completed his PhD in 2005 in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a postdoctoral fellowship at MICe from 2005 to 2008 with Mark Henkelman and John Sled. He received his BA in 1999 in anthropology and social studies of medicine from McGill University. His PhD research, under the supervision of Alan Evans, was on in vivo measurements of cortical thickness from magnetic resonance imaging scans.
Key publications
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Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach.
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Kushki A. et al, (2019), Transl Psychiatry, 9
Recent publications
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Placental endocrine function shapes cerebellar development and social behavior.
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Vacher C-M. et al, (2021), Nat Neurosci
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Brain mapping across 16 autism mouse models reveals a spectrum of functional connectivity subtypes.
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Zerbi V. et al, (2021), Mol Psychiatry
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Developmental and Behavioral Phenotypes in a Mouse Model of DDX3X Syndrome.
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Boitnott A. et al, (2021), Biol Psychiatry
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Effects of Low-Dose Gestational TCDD Exposure on Behavior and on Hippocampal Neuron Morphology and Gene Expression in Mice.
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Gileadi TE. et al, (2021), Environ Health Perspect, 129
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A fully segmented 3D anatomical atlas of a lizard brain.
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Hoops D. et al, (2021), Brain Struct Funct