Brian R. Christie (born 1964) is a Michael Smith Senior Scholar and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience at The University of Victoria. He received his PhD in 1992 from the University of Otago before doing postdoctoral work with Daniel Johnston at Baylor College of Medicine and Terrence Sejnowski at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and then became Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.[1]
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Christie's research has shown that exercise promotes adult neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.[2][3]
This work has since progressed to show that exercise can have beneficial effects for the brains of animals that have been exposed to ethanol while in the womb, an animal model of fetal alcohol syndrome effects. His current work continues to examine how exercise can benefit the brain. He is part of the Island Medical Program and the Division of Medical Sciences, a joint venture of the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria to increase the number of medical doctors being trained in Canada, and teaches neuroanatomy and problem-based learning (PBL) in this program .[1] His current research concentrates on how exercise generates new brain cells in people with Alzheimer’s Disease, stroke, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), particularly in the hippocampus.
His most cited peer-reviewed publications are:
The h-index for his work is 27, that is, 27 articles cited 27 times or more.
Christie lives in Saanich, British Columbia with his three children and wife.