Maurice Ptito is Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the School of Optometry.
Education
Doctor Ptito obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Neuropsychology from Université de Montréal and a doctorat in Health Sciences (Doctor Medicinae) from the University of Aarhus (Denmark). He trained as post-doctoral fellow in Neurophysiology at Stanford University Medical School (California) under the mentorship of Professor Karl H. Pribram.
Career
He is also an Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University) and Guest Professor at the Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (University of Copenhagen). He currently holds the Harland Sanders Research Chair in Vision Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Academy of Optometry, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Maurice Ptito is a specialist in the study of Development and Plasticity of the visual system in various species including Manitoba
The major goal of his research is the understanding of the mechanisms involved in Visual Plasticity in normal developing individuals, as well as those who were born without vision or lost their vision later in life. His laboratory has been using a wide variety of techniques including anatomy (diffusion Tensor Imaging, Voxel-based Morphometry), physiology (Visually Evoked Potentials), Positron Emission Tomography ( Positron Emission Tomography), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society ) and Psychophsics to study human blindness.
Maurice Ptito lives in Montreal (Qc, Canada) and in Copenhagen (Denmark).