Alex Barnett, PhD
Alex Barnett completed his B.Sc., M.A. and PhD at the University of Toronto at Toronto Western Hospital investigating the neural underpinnings of cognition in temporal lobe epilepsy. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Davis before starting a faculty position at the University of Toronto. He is now an assistant professor at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital). Barnett’s research incorporates elements of systems neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and clinical neuropsychology in creative ways to expand our understanding of episodic memory. His research explores how neocortical networks in the brain interact with the hippocampus to support the formation, retrieval, and transformation of episodic memories and how this process is altered in temporal lobe epilepsy and other neurological disorders.
- Barnett, A. J., Nguyen, M., Spargo, J., Yadav, R., Cohn-Sheehy, B. I., & Ranganath, C. (2024). Hippocampal-cortical interactions during event boundaries support retention of complex narrative events. Neuron, 112(2), 319-330.
- Audrain, S., Barnett, A., Mouseli, P., & McAndrews, M. P. (2023). Leveraging the resting brain to predict memory decline after temporal lobectomy. Epilepsia, 64(11), 3061-3072.
- Barnett, A. J., Reilly, W., Dimsdale-Zucker, H. R., Mizrak, E., Reagh, Z., & Ranganath, C. (2021). Intrinsic connectivity reveals functionally distinct cortico-hippocampal networks in the human brain. PLoS biology, 19(6), e3001275.
- Barnett, A. J., Man, V., & McAndrews, M. P. (2019). Parcellation of the hippocampus using resting functional connectivity in temporal lobe epilepsy. Frontiers in neurology, 10, 920.
- Adnan, A., Barnett, A., Moayedi, M., McCormick, C., Cohn, M., & McAndrews, M. P. (2016). Distinct hippocampal functional networks revealed by tractography-based parcellation. Brain Structure and Function, 221, 2999-3012.
