Dr Montembeault’s team uses digital cognitive markers and multimodal neuroimaging to investigate linguistic and socio-emotional changes and their brain correlates in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Maxime Montembeault is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and researcher at the Douglas Research Centre.  He received a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology at Université de Montréal in 2018, where he investigated Alzheimer’s disease as a disconnection syndrome and its impact on language systems. He is a member of Ordre des Psychologues du Québec. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Memory & Aging Center, University of California in San Francisco between 2019 and 2022, investigating the interaction between language and socio-emotional behavior (connected speech, prosody, social cognition, socioemotional semantics) and their brain correlates in frontotemporal dementia.

Thomas Carrier (PhD student)

Key publications

• Plasma p-tau217 identifies cognitively normal older adults who will develop cognitive impairment in a 10-year window
• The impact of kidney function on Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers: implications for predicting amyloid-β positivity
• Plasma phosphorylated tau217 strongly associates with memory deficits in the Alzheimer's disease spectrum
• Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia
• A systematic review of the quantitative markers of speech and language of the frontotemporal degeneration spectrum and their potential for cross-linguistic implementation
• Associations between neuromelanin depletion and cortical rhythmic activity in Parkinson's disease
• Digital language markers distinguish frontal from right anterior temporal lobe atrophy in frontotemporal dementia
• Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia
• Cognitive and affective theory of mind in young and elderly patients with multiple sclerosis
• Clinical recognition of frontotemporal dementia with right anterior temporal predominance: A multicenter retrospective cohort study