Batcho CS, Gagné M, Bouyer LJ, Roy JS, Mercier C. Neuroscience. 2016;337:267–275
Catherine Mercier

525, boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel
Québec (Québec) G1M 2S8
418 529-9141 # 6701
Occupational therapist focusing on interactions between pain and motor learning, as well as on strategies to promote optimal recovery when physical rehabilitation is performed in the context of pain.
Academic background
- Postdoctoral fellow in Cognitive Neurosciences (CNRS, Lyon, France, 2005)
- Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, option rehabilitation (Université de Montréal, 2003)
- M. Sc. Biomedical Sciences, option rehabilitation (Université de Montréal, 1999)
- B.Sc. Occupational Therapy (Université de Montréal, 1997)
Research interests
- Impact of pain on body representations and motor learning.
- Neural plasticity following a lesion or a rehabilitation intervention.
- Use of virtual reality and non-invasive brain stimulation in rehabilitation
Pages
Pages
Articles in scientific journals (peer-reviewed)
Roosink M, Mercier C.
Virtual feedback for motor and pain rehabilitation after spinal cord injury.
Spinal Cord. 2014, 52(12):860-866.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5303-13.2014. PMID: 25009252
Ngomo, S., Mercier, C., & Roy, J.-S. (2013). Cortical mapping of the infraspinatus muscle in healthy individuals. BMC Neuroscience, 14, 52. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-14-52
Jetté, F., Côté, I., Meziane, H. B., & Mercier, C. (2013). Effect of single-session repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation applied over the hand versus leg motor area on pain after spinal cord injury. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 27, 636–643. doi:10.1177/1545968313484810
Bouffard, J., Gagné, M., & Mercier, C. (2013). Effect of painful and non-painful sensorimotor manipulations on subjective body midline. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 77. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00077
Hétu, S., & Mercier, C. (2012). Using purposeful tasks to improve motor performance: does object affordance matter? British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 75, 367-376.
Ngomo S, Leonard G, Moffet H, Mercier C. Comparison of transcranial magnetic stimulation measures obtained at rest and under active conditions and their reliability. J Neurosci Methods. 2012 Mar 30;205(1):65-71.
Mercier, C. (2012). Interactions between motor imagery and pain - comment on Raffin et al. 2011. Cortex, 48, 778-780.
Ngomo S, Leonard G, Mercier C. Influence of the amount of use on hand motor cortex representation: contrasting immobilization and motor training. Neuroscience 2012;220:208-14.
Bouffard, J., Vincent, C., Boulianne, E., Lajoie, S., & Mercier, C. (2012). Interactions between the phantom limb sensations, prosthesis use and rehabilitation as seen by amputees and health professionals. Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, 24(1), 25-33.
Gagné M, Hétu S, Reilly KT, Mercier C. The map is not the territory: motor system reorganisation in upper limb amputees. Hum Brain Mapp. 2011;32:509-19.
Mercier C, Léonard G. Interactions between pain and the motor cortex: Insights from research on phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome. Physiother Can. 2011;63:305-14.
Dubé J, Mercier C. Effect of pain and pain expectation on primary motor cortex excitability. Clin Neurophysiol. 2011;122:2318-23.
Voisin, J. I. A., Rodrigues, E. C., Hétu, S., Jackson, P. L., Vargas, C. D., Malouin, F., … Mercier, C. (2011). Modulation of the response to a somatosensory stimulation of the hand during the observation of manual actions. Experimental brain research., 208(1), 11–9. doi:10.1007/s00221-010-2448-3
Voisin, J. I. A., Mercier, C., Jackson, P. L., Richards, C. L., & Malouin, F. (2011). Is somatosensory excitability more affected by the perspective or modality content of motor imagery? Neuroscience Letters, 493(1-2), 33-37.
Voisin, J. I. A., Marcoux, L.-A., Canizales, D. L., Mercier, C., & Jackson, P. L. (2011). I Am Touched by Your Pain: Limb-Specific Modulation of the Cortical Response to a Tactile Stimulation During Pain Observation. The Journal of Pain, 12(11), 1182-1189.
Vincent C, Demers E, Moffet H, Corriveau H, Nadeau S, MercierC and Rehabilitation RQRV group 2006-2009. 2010 Use of an innovative model to evaluate mobility in seniors with lower-limb amputations of vascular origin: a pilot study BMC Geriatrics 2010, 10:68
Hétu S, Gagné M, Jackson PL, Mercier C. Variability in the effector-specific pattern of motor facilitation during the observation of everyday actions: implications for the clinical use of action observation. Neuroscience 2010;170:589-98.
Mercier,C, Sirigu S. Training with virtual visual feedback to alleviate phantom limb pain. J Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2009;23:587-94.
Scientific presentations (oral or poster)
Bouffard J, Salomoni SE, Tucker K, Van der Hoorn W, Mercier C, Roy JS, Hodges PW, Bouyer LJ.
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, USA, November 15-19, 2014
Bouyer LJ, Gagné M, *Beaumont JA, Mercier C.
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, USA, November 15-19, 2014.
15th IASP World congress on pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 6-11th 2014.
Laberge D, Perreault K, Mercier C. 35th Annual Scientific meeting of the Canadian Pain Society, Québec, 20-23 mai 2014. Pain Research & Management, 19 (3): e83.
Hébert, L.J., McFadyen, B.J., Robitaille, N., Larochelle, J., Mercier, C., Jackson, P. L., Bouyer, L., Fecteau, S., Richards, C. (2013, April). Interactive Virtual Reality Real-Time Avatar for Military Rehabilitation in the Canadian Forces. Oral presentation at the HFM-228 SYMPOSIUM, Milan, Italy.
Hébert LJ, McFadyen B, Robitaille N, Larochelle J, Mercier C, Jackson P. L., Bouyer L, Fecteau S, Richards, CL. (2013) Interactive Virtual Reality Real-Time Avatar for Military Rehabilitation in the Canadian Forces. Collaboration and Support Office de l'OTAN, NATO Science and Technology Organisation Meeting Proceedings, March 2013;1-13.
Savoie A, Roy JS, Mercier C.
15th IASP World congress on pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 6-11th 2014.
Research professionals
- Martin Gagné
- Steve Forest
Students
- Meyke Roosink (postdoc)
- Charles Batcho (postdoc)
- Jason Bouffard (Ph.D.)
- Nicolas Mavromatis (Ph.D.)
- Mélanie Lamothe (M.Sc.)
- Alexandre Savoie (M.Sc.)
- Marie-Claude Bilodeau (B.Sc.)
Affiliations
- Member of the Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec
- Regular researcher, REPAR, Leader of Strategic initiative #2 (Upper limb movement and functional performance), member of the scientific committee.
- Regular researcher, RQRD
- Regular researcher, RBIQ
- Member of the scientific committee of the Consortium d’imagerie en neurosciences et santé mentale de Québec (CINQ)