Dr. Layla Gould PhD

Dr. Layla Gould was raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. Before joining the Division of Neurosurgery, Dr. Gould completed her PhD in the Cognition and Neuroscience program at the University of Saskatchewan where she used neuroimaging to study neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with speech and language in health and disease. She then completed two post-doctoral fellowships in the Division of Neurosurgery and College of Kinesiology doing clinical neurophysiology and studying the neural mechanisms associated with stroke recovery. Dr. Gould now leads the Presurgical Neuroimaging Program at RUH and uses functional MRI and tractography to help plan neurosurgical procedures. She also works as a clinical neurophysiologist doing intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.

Current Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
• Clinical Neurophysiologist, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Saskatchewan Health Authority
• MD Graduate Faculty Appointment, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Saskatchewan

Academic Background

• 2018 – 2019                  Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Saskatchewan
• 2016 – 2018                  Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Neurosurgery & College of Kinesiology
• 2013 – 2016                  Ph.D. Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Saskatchewan            
• 2011 – 2013                  M.A., Psychology, University of Saskatchewan
• 2006 – 2011                  B.A., Psychology, Honours, University of Regina

• Gould, L., Kress, S., Neurdorf, J., Gibb, K., Meguro, K., & Borowsky, R. An fMRI and DTI Report of Atypical Cortical Organization in Ipsilesional Hemisphere Following Post-Stroke Motor Recovery. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 30(3):105593.
• Persad, A., Gould, L., Norton, J., & Meguro, K. (2021). Uncrossed corticospinal tracts presenting as transient tumor-related symptomatology, 163, 947–951.
• Andrushko, J.W., Gould, L., Renshaw, D.W., Ekstrand, C., Hortobágyi, T., Borowsky, R. & Farthing, J.P. (2021). High force unimanual handgrip contractions increase ipsilateral sensorimotor activation and functional connectivity. Neuroscience, 452, 111-125.
• Neudorf, J., Kress, S., Gould, L., Gibb, K., Mickleborough, M. & Borowsky, R. (2020). Language lateralization differences between left and right temporal lobe epilepsy as measured by overt word reading fMRI activation and DTI structural connectivity. Epilepsy & Behavior, 112, 107467. 
• Gould, L., Wu, A., Tellez, J., Ekstrand, C., Neudorf, J., Kress, S., Gibb, K., Ekstrand, C., Dabirzadeh, H., Ahmed, S.U., & Borowsky, R. Atypical Language Localization in Right Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: An fMRI Case Report. Epilepsy and Behaviour Reports, 14, 100364.
• Gould, L., Ekstrand, C., Fourney, D., Mickleborough, M., 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.