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Rémi Quirion

Rémi Quirion

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Neuroscience
Canada
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
124
Citations
51414
World Ranking
341
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Canada Leader Award
  • 2019 - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Overview

Rémi Quirion is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to neuroscience and related disciplines. Their main fields of study include Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these, their research spans several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, and Oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics with notable focus areas including:

  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Rémi Quirion's recent publications include:

  • Brain organoids: are they for real?, 2023, Frontiers in Science
  • Glutamate Attenuates the Survival Property of IGFR through NR2B Containing N-Methyl-D-aspartate Receptors in Cortical Neurons, 2020, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
  • Scientific diplomacy keeps reason alight in dark times, 2022, Nature
  • Alterations in prefrontal cortical neuregulin-1 levels in post-pubertal rats with neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neuropeptide Y receptors in GtoPdb v.2023.1, 2023, IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE

The scientist has frequently published in venues including IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, Frontiers in Science, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Nature.

Frequent co-authors of Rémi Quirion include Denise Pérusse, Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Danielle Maltais, Mario Gauthier, and Philippe Gachon.

Rémi Quirion is also an author of books, with publications such as "Les inondations au Québec," published by Presses de l'Université du Québec eBooks in 2022.

The scientist was recognized with the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame award in 2019.

Best Publications

  • International Union of Pharmacology. XXXII. The mammalian calcitonin gene-related peptides, adrenomedullin, amylin, and calcitonin receptors.

    David R. Poyner;Patrick M. Sexton;Ian Marshall;David M. Smith

  • A proposal for the classification of sigma binding sites.

    Rémi Quirion;Wayne D. Bowen;Yossef Itzhak;Jean Louis Junien

  • Apolipoprotein E4 allele as a predictor of cholinergic deficits and treatment outcome in Alzheimer disease.

    Judes Poirier;Marie Claude Delisle;Rémi Quirion;Isabelle Aubert

  • The effects of chronic antidepressant treatment in an animal model of anxiety.

    Shari R. Bodnoff;Shari R. Bodnoff;Barbara Suranyi-Cadotte;David H. Aitken;Remi Quirion

  • The Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) protects hippocampal neurons against cell death induced by beta-amyloid.

    Stéphane Bastianetto;Charles Ramassamy;Sylvain Doré;Yves Christen

  • Neuropeptide Y and neuropeptide Y receptor subtypes in brain and peripheral tissues.

    Yvan Dumont;Jean-Claude Martel;Alain Fournier;Serge St-Pierre

  • Differential alteration of various cholinergic markers in cortical and subcortical regions of human brain in Alzheimer's disease.

    D. M. Araujo;P. A. Lapchak;Y. Robitaille;S. Gauthier

  • Decreased expression of the embryonic form of the neural cell adhesion molecule in schizophrenic brains.

    D Barbeau;J J Liang;Y Robitalille;R Quirion

  • A comparison of the anatomical distribution of substance P and substance P receptors in the rat central nervous system

    Clifford W. Shults;Remi Quirion;Bibie Chronwall;Thomas N. Chase

  • cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein (CREB): A Possible Signaling Molecule Link in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia

    Haitao Wang;Jiangping Xu;Philip Lazarovici;Remi Quirion

  • Dopamine supersensitivity correlates with D2High states, implying many paths to psychosis

    Philip Seeman;David Weinshenker;Remi Quirion;Lalit K. Srivastava

  • Neuroprotective action of resveratrol.

    Stéphane Bastianetto;Caroline Ménard;Rémi Quirion;Rémi Quirion

  • The neurocircuitry and receptor subtypes mediating anxiolytic-like effects of neuropeptide Y.

    Ants Kask;Jaanus Harro;Stephan von Hörsten;John P. Redrobe

  • Phencyclidine (angel dust)/sigma "opiate" receptor: visualization by tritium-sensitive film.

    Remi Quirion;Ronald P. Hammer;Miles Herkenham;Candace B. Pert

  • Comparative alterations of nicotinic and muscarinic binding sites in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

    I. Aubert;D. M. Araujo;D. Cécyre;Y. Robitaille

  • Psychiatry as a Clinical Neuroscience Discipline

    Thomas R. Insel;Remi Quirion

  • Psychosis pathways converge via D2high dopamine receptors.

    Philip Seeman;Johannes Schwarz;Jiang Fan Chen;Henry Szechtman

  • Behavioral insensitivity to restraint stress, absent fear suppression of behavior and impaired spatial learning in transgenic rats with hippocampal neuropeptide Y overexpression

    A. Thorsell;M. Michalkiewicz;Y. Dumont;R. Quirion

  • Classification and nomenclature of phencyclidine and sigma receptor sites

    Rémi Quirion;Robert Chicheportiche;Patricia C. Contreras;Kenneth M. Johnson

  • Neuroprotective effects of resveratrol against β‐amyloid‐induced neurotoxicity in rat hippocampal neurons: involvement of protein kinase C

    Ying-Shan Han;Wen-Hua Zheng;Stéphane Bastianetto;Jean-Guy Chabot

  • Circadian rhythms of melatonin and cortisol in aging

    M. Sharma;J. Palacios-Bois;G. Schwartz;H. Iskandar

  • Quantitative autoradiographic localization of [125I]insulin-like growth factor I, [125I]insulin-like growth factor II, and [125I]insulin receptor binding sites in developing and adult rat brain.

    S. Kar;J.-G. Chabot;R. Quirion;R. Quirion

  • Alterations in hippocampal network oscillations and theta‐gamma coupling arise before Aβ overproduction in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    Romain Goutagny;Romain Goutagny;Romain Goutagny;Ning Gu;Chelsea Cavanagh;Jesse Jackson

  • Characterization of CGRP1 and CGRP2 Receptor Subtypesa

    Remi Quirion;Denise Van Rossum;Yvan Dumont;Serge St‐Pierre

  • Alternative Splicing, Methylation State, and Expression Profile of Tropomyosin-Related Kinase B in the Frontal Cortex of Suicide Completers

    Carl Ernst;Vesselina Deleva;Xiaoming Deng;Adolfo Sequeira

  • β-Amyloid peptides as direct cholinergic neuromodulators: a missing link?

    Daniel S. Auld;Satyabrata Kar;Rémi Quirion

  • Facilitation of acetylcholine release and cognitive performance by an M(2)-muscarinic receptor antagonist in aged memory-impaired

    R Quirion;A Wilson;W Rowe;I Aubert

  • Substance P and Neurokinins

    James L. Henry;Rejean Couture;A. Claudio Cuello;Georges Pelletier

  • Localization of interleukin-2 immunoreactivity and interleukin-2 receptors in the rat brain: interaction with the cholinergic system.

    Dalia M. Araujo;Paul A. Lapchak;Brian Collier;Re´mi Quirion

Frequent Co-Authors

Naguib Mechawar
Naguib Mechawar McGill University
Gonzalo Flores
Gonzalo Flores Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Sylvain Williams
Sylvain Williams McGill University
Tak Pan Wong
Tak Pan Wong McGill University
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Salah El Mestikawy
Salah El Mestikawy Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Satyabrata Kar
Satyabrata Kar University of Alberta
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Cheryl L. Grady
Cheryl L. Grady University of Toronto
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis

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