Victor Frak, M.D., Ph.D.

Education

• M.D., Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982
• Specialization in Neurology, Ministry of Health, Argentina, 1989
• D.E.A., Neuropsychology, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, 1991
• Ph.D., Cognitive Sciences, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, 2000
• Postdoctorate, Cognitive Sciences, Centre of Cognition Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, UQÀM, 2004
• Postdoctorate, Biomedical Sciences,Université de Montréal, 2005

Research interests

Grasping; evaluation and rehabilitation strategies

Selected publications

Frak, V., & Cohen, H. (Sous-presse 2021 (Online ahead of print)). Converging perspectives on the relationship between language and action. Brain and Cognition, 150. [doi]

Frak, V. & Cohen, H. (2021). The Functional Links Between Language and Motor Activity. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.

Frak, V., Labrecque, D. & Cohen, H. (2021). Action verbs drive motor activity in adolescents but not in children. Brain and Cognition, 148, 105673. [doi]

Frak, V. & Namer, V. (2020). Cognitive development, autism spectrum disorders and assisted reproductive technology. In R. Quintana, T. Quintana, N. Paul, & R. James (Eds.), Impacto de las Técnicas de Reproducción Asistida: del Recién Nacido al Adulto. (pp. 361-372). Editorial médica Akadia.

da Silva, R.L., Santos, F. F., Gonçalves Mendes, I.M.V., Caromano, F. A., Higgins, J. & Frak, V. (2019). Contributions of the left- and the right-hemisphere on the language-induced grip force modulation of the left hand in unimanual task. Medicina, 55(10), 674. [doi]

Pérez-Gay Juárez, F., Labrecque, D. & Frak, V. (2019). Assessing language-induced motor activity through Event Related Potentials and the Grip Force Sensor, an exploratory study. Brain and Cognition, 135, 103572. [doi]

da Silva, R.L., Labrecque, D., Caromano, F.A., Higgins, J. & Frak, V. (2018). Manual action verbs modulate the grip force of each hand in unimanual or symmetrical bimanual tasks. PLoS One, 13(2), e0192320. [doi]

da Silva, R.L., de Souza, A.M.C., Santos, F.F., Inoue, S.T., Higgins, J. & Frak, V. (2018). Effects of excitatory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the P3 point in chronic stroke patients-case reports. Brain Sciences, 8(5), E78. [doi]

 

 

Research orientation

Axis 1: Sensory, Motor and Cognitive Functions and Activities

Research topic

Thème 1 : The person, their entourage and the community

Research Site

CRIR - Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM), CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

University Affiliation