NeuropsychologyMRIAIParticipatory Research

Social neuropsychology

Sociological, affective, behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms involved in social interactions.

Leader

Dr. Maxime Bertoux

members

9

Objectives

Our research aims to identify and understand the sociological, affective, behavioural, cognitive, linguistic, and neural mechanisms involved in social interactions. We also investigate how their assessment may help improve early diagnosis, clinical monitoring, and care in neurodegenerative diseases, such as frontotemporal dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, and support their differentiation from psychiatric disorders.

Emotions, affects, mentalizing, theory of mind

Population

• Neurotypical populations
• Patients with Alzheimer’s disease, behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasia, or atypical psychiatric disorders, all seen at the Lille Memory Resources and Research Centre (CMRR), the French National Reference Centre for Young-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the Constituent Reference Centre for “Rare or Early-Onset Dementias”

Methods

• Approaches from cognitive and experimental psychology
• Clinical neuropsychology and behavioural neurology
• Psycholinguistics and language sciences
• Data-driven statistical analyses and machine learning methods
• Structural and functional neuroimaging
• Participatory research and interviews
• Digital markers

Social cognition, communication, psycholinguistic, frontotemporal dementia, frontotemporal degeneration, bvFTD

Team members

Leader

Dr. Maxime Bertoux

Dr. Maxime Bertoux

Inserm Research Scientist, Neuropsychologist

Team

  • TT

    Pr. Thi Mai Tran

    Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences

  • MM

    Dr. Marie-Anne Mackowiak

    Hospital Practitioner in Neurology, Head of Day Hospital at CMRR

  • AR

    Dr. Adeline Rollin

    Hospital Practitioner in Neurology, Head of CNRMAJ at CMRR

  • FE

    Dr. Florent El Grabli

    Hospital Practitioner in Neurology & Pain Medicine

  • Dr. Agnès Denève

    Dr. Agnès Denève

    Postdoctoral Researcher & Neuropsychologist

  • Aurore Dubos

    Aurore Dubos

    PhD Student & Speech Therapist

  • FP

    Dr. Florence Plumacker

    Neurology Trainee

  • WC

    Wiam Cherif

    PhD Student & Neuropsychologist

Publications

2026
7 publications

PatientSpace: A multimodal graph-based latent representation framework for modeling neurodegenerative disease heterogeneity.

Manouvriez D, Kuchcinski G, Lecerf S, Lahousse H, Rogeau A, Villain N, Kas A, Pyatigorskaya N, Nguyen M, Petrovic S, Cole JH, Zabihi M, Hache B, Bertoux M, Lebouvier T, Roca V, Lopes R, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative, MEMENTO study group, SOCRATES study group · NeuroImage

Trajectories of brain structure and function in young adult carriers of genetic frontotemporal dementia variants.

So I, Lombardi J, Staffaroni AM, Coleman KKL, Bouzigues A, Ferry-Bolder E, Cullen E, Russell LL, Foster PH, Farley S, Convery R, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, Laforce R, Bruffaerts R, Bertoux M, Lebouvier T, Solje E, Levin J, di Fede G, Thompson A, Le Ber I, Migliaccio RL, Körtvélyessy P, Schroeter ML, Logroscino G, Otto M, Uzelac Z, Illán-Gala I, Krüger J, Nacmias B, Gerhard A, Langheinrich T, Ducharme S, Santana I, Tartaglia MC, Masellis M, de Mendonça A, Rowe JB, Graff C, Moreno F, Synofzik M, Borroni B, Sanchez-Valle R, Brushaber D, Considine CM, Faber K, Fagan A, Fields JA, Foroud T, Forsberg LK, Gendron T, Geschwind D, Heuer HW, Huang E, Kantarci K, Kolander T, Lago AL, Lavigne SB, Mester C, Molden J, Petrucelli L, Rademakers R, Ramos EM, Rankin KP, Rascovsky K, Rhoads KW, Vandeberghe M, Weintraub S, Wong B, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Lee SE, Rohrer JD, Finger EC · medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Composite grey matter fingerprints for genetic frontotemporal dementia.

Bouzigues A, Campana G, Joulot M, Gensollen N, Russell LL, Foster PH, Ferry-Bolder E, Van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Sánchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonca A, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Gerhard A, Levin J, Sorbi S, Otto M, Bertoux M, Lebouvier T, Ducharme S, Butler C, Finger E, Tartaglia MC, Masellis M, Rowe JB, Synofzik M, Moreno F, Borroni B, Leber I, Zanusso G, Rohrer JD, Migliaccio R, GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) · Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

Expressive prosody in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration and late-onset psychiatric disorders.

Denève A, Villain M, Bordier C, Denis C, Carpentier C, Forestier N, Renard A, Dumont J, Lopes R, Kuchcinski G, D'Hondt F, Amad A, Lebouvier T, Bertoux M · Neuropsychology

AI-powered analysis of affective dimensions in speech and its relevance for FTD diagnosis.

Denève A, Dauchez R, Lebouvier T, D'Hondt F, Bertoux M · Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Multi-level language deficits in behavioural frontotemporal degeneration and related disorders.

Denève A, Mahut Dubos A, Tran TM, Renard A, Carpentier C, Forestier N, Kuchcinski G, Lopes R, Amad A, Lebouvier T, Bertoux M · Brain communications

Survival estimates and their predictors in genetic frontotemporal dementia: an international, retrospective, cohort study.

Bouzigues A, Grassi M, Cantoni V, Premi E, Bellini S, Binetti G, Logroscino G, Russell LL, Ferry-Bolder E, Foster PH, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Di Fede G, Santana I, Gerhard A, Langheinrich T, Levin J, Nacmias B, Otto M, Bertoux M, Lebouvier T, Ducharme S, Butler C, le Ber I, Bruffaerts R, Solje E, Kinnunen M, Krüger J, Finger E, Tartaglia MC, Masellis M, Rowe JB, Synofzik M, Moreno F, Ghidoni R, Migliaccio R, Rohrer JD, Borroni B, GENFI consortium · The Lancet. Neurology