Tourigny K, Mickleborough MJS, (2026). Specific pre-injury migraine characteristics associated with worse concussion outcomes. PLOS One. PONE-D-25-30854R2

Mickleborough MJS. (2026). Editorial: Measuring brain oscillations may help us understand the interaction between attentional control and cortical excitability in migraine. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.

Golshan, F., Sun, G., Francisco, J. F., Alibolandi, P., Nabi Zade, M., Mousavi, A., Lysenko, R., O’Connell, M.E., Block, H., Masiowski, P., Mickleborough, M.J.S. (2025). Randomized controlled trial of neurofeedback mindfulness meditation as a practice for migraine management, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 142. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2025.111685

Levinton, T., Gelech, J., Golshan, F., Mickleborough, M.J.S. (2025). Experiences of a Neurofeedback-Based Mindfulness Meditation Intervention for Migraine: A Qualitative Study, JMIR Neurotechnology,: DOI:10.2196/68369

Golshan, F., Mickleborough, M.J.S. (2025). fMRI-based explanations for how meditation could modulate pain processing, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19.  doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1561580

Jensen, M.K.N, O’Connell, M.E, Mickleborough, M.J.S. (2025). Perception of Health, Cognition, and Pain Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Migraine: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study Examining Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 65 (9), 1511-1525. doi.org/10.1111/head.14953.

Golshan F., Lysenko, R., Nabi Zade, M., Alibolandi, P., Block, H., Masiowski, P., O’Connell, M. E., Sun, G., Mickleborough, M. (2024). Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Neurofeedback Mindfulness in Chronic Migraines. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101362

Golshan, F., Bains, S., Francisco, J., Jensen, M., Tourigny, K., Morrison, T, Mickleborough, M. (2024). Gender Differences in Concussion-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Reporting Behaviours of Varsity Athletes. The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness 63(6): 588-98.

Francisco, J., Golshan, F., Morrison, T.G., & Mickleborough, M. (2023). Stress and headaches in university students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. PlosONE 18(11): e0288745. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288745 (published November 22, 2023)

Golshan, F., Moss, D., Sun, G., Krigolson, O., Cruz, M. T., Loehr, J., & Mickleborough, M. (2022). ERP evidence of heightened attentional response to visual stimuli in migraine headache disorders. Exp Brain Res, 240:2499-2511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06408-5

Andrushko, J.W., Gould, L., Renshaw, D.W., Forrester, S., Kelly, M.E., Linassi, G., Mickleborough, M., Oates, A., Hunter, G., Borowsky, R., Farthing, J.P. (2022). Ipsilesional motor cortex activation with high-force unimanual handgrip contractions of the less-affected limb in participants with stroke. Neuroscience. 

Neudorf, J., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Borowsky, R. (2022). Unique, shared, and dominant brain activation in Visual Word Form Area and Lateral Occipital Complex during reading and picture naming.  Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.11.022

Neudorf, J., Kress. S., Gould, L., Gibb, K., Mickleborough, M., & Borowsky, R. (2020).  Language lateralization differences between left and right temporal epilepsy as measured by overt word reading fMRI activation and DTI structural connectivity.  Epilepsy & Behavior, 112, 1-9. doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107467

Hernandez-Ronquillo, L., Miranzadeh Mahabadi, H., Moien-Afshari, F., Wu, A., Auer, R., Zherebitskiy, V., Borowsky, R., Mickleborough, M., Huntsman, R., Vrbancic, M., Cayabyab, F.S., Taghibiglou, C., Carter, A., Tellez-Zenteno, J.F. (2020). The Concept of an Epilepsy Brain Bank. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 833. DOI=10.3389/fneur.2020.00833

Krieglar C., Cruz, M.T., Sun, G., Friedrich, T.E., Elias, L.J., & *Mickleborough, M.J.S. (2020). Evidence for abnormal visuospatial attentional processes in the interictal migraineur. Laterality.  DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2020.1776311.

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., & *Borowsky, R. (2019). Where words and space collide: The overlapping neural activation of lexical and sublexical reading with voluntary and reflexive spatial attention. Brain Research, 1706, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.10.022

Gould, L., Ekstrand, C., Fourney, D.R., Mickleborough, M.J.S., Ellchuk, T., & *Borowsky, R. (2018). The effect of tumor neovasculature on functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygen level–dependent activation. World Neurosurgery, 115, 373-383.

Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Lorentz, E., Ekstrand, C., & *Borowsky, R. (2018). A behavioral and fMRI examination of the effect of rhythm on reading noun-verb homographs aloud. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 33(7): 829-849.

Gould, L., Kelly, M. E., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Brymer, K., Ellchuk, T., & Borowsky, R. (2017). Reorganized neural activation in motor cortex following subdural fluid collection: an fMRI and DTI study. Neurocase, 23(5-6):  292-303.

Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Lorentz, E., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., & *Borowsky, R. (2017). More than a feeling: the bidirectional convergence of semantic visual object and somatosensory processing. Acta Psychologica, 181: 1-9.

Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., & *Borowsky, R. (2017). Examining the neuroanatomical and the behavioural basis of the effect of basic rhythm on reading aloud. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32(6): 724-742.

Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., Mickleborough, M., Lorentz, E., & *Borowsky, R. (2016). When words and space collide: spatial attention interacts with lexical access during word recognition. Visual Cognition, 24(3): 284-291.

Ekstrand, C., *Mickleborough, M.J.S., Fourney, D., Gould, L., Lorentz, E., Ellchuck, T., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Pre-surgical integration of fMRI and DTI of the sensorimotor system in transcortical resection of a high-grade insular astrocytoma. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 10:15, doi: 10.3389/fnint.2016.00015.

Gould, L., *Mickleborough, M.J.S., Wu, A., Tellez, J., Ekstrand, C., Lorentz, E., Ellchuck, T., Babyn, P., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Pre-surgical language mapping in epilepsy: using fMRI of reading to identify functional reorganization in a patient with long-standing temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports, 5: 6-10. doi:10.1016/j.ebcr.2015.10.003.

Mickleborough, M., Ekstrand, C., Gould, L., Lorentz, E.J., Ellchuk, T., Babyn, P., & Borowsky, R. (2016). Attentional network differences between migraineurs and non-migraine controls: fMRI evidence. Brain Topography, 29(3): 419-428. doi:10.1007/s10548-015-0459-x

HLST 110 - Introduction to Health Studies

HLST 210 - Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in Health Studies

HLST 310 - Theories and Applications in Health Studies Seminar

PSY 253 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

PSY 846 - Advanced Seminar in Human Neuropsychology

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PhD (Neuroscience), University of British Columbia

MSc (Neuroscience), University of Western Ontario

BA (Psychology), University of Saskatchewan