Professor Dr. Maxime Montembeault

Biography

Maxime Montembeault is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal and a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. His research focuses on improving early diagnosis and monitoring the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, including primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer's disease, using cognitive digital markers and multimodal neuroimaging techniques. He is particularly interested in language and socio-emotional disorders within these populations. Montembeault obtained his PhD in neuropsychology from the University of Montreal in 2019, studying Alzheimer's disease as a disconnection syndrome and its impact on language systems. Additionally, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Memory & Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2019 to 2022, exploring the interaction between language and socio-emotional behavior, alongside their cerebral correlates in frontotemporal dementia.

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