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Herve Lemaitre is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. The research focus encompasses medicine and neuroscience, with a substantial emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging techniques. Their work covers experimental and clinical psychology domains, with a notable number of publications in genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Research topics addressed by Herve Lemaitre include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

The scientist has contributed extensively to neuroimaging genetics and psychiatric research, with recent publications including:

  • The IMAGEN study: a decade of imaging genetics in adolescents, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Reward Versus Nonreward Sensitivity of the Medial Versus Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Relates to the Severity of Depressive Symptoms, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Substance Use Initiation, Particularly Alcohol, in Drug-Naive Adolescents: Possible Predictors and Consequences From a Large Cohort Naturalistic Study, 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include Tobias Banaschewski, Sylvane Desrivières, Frauke Nees, Andreas Heinz, and Arun L.W. Bokde, reflecting a multidisciplinary network engaged in psychiatry, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience.

Publication venues with repeated contributions feature:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Herve Lemaitre's research intersects multiple domains within neuroscience and medicine, spanning genetic, behavioral, and imaging approaches to understand brain function and psychiatric conditions, particularly in adolescents and young people. Their work contributes to advancing knowledge in the neurobiological underpinnings of mental health disorders as well as developmental trajectories in child and adolescent populations.

Best Publications

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

    Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

  • A common allele in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function

    Heike Tost;Bhaskar Kolachana;Shabnam Hakimi;Herve Lemaitre

  • Normal age-related brain morphometric changes: nonuniformity across cortical thickness, surface area and gray matter volume?

    Herve Lemaitre;Aaron L. Goldman;Fabio Sambataro;Fabio Sambataro;Beth A. Verchinski

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • Age- and sex-related effects on the neuroanatomy of healthy elderly.

    Hervé Lemaître;Fabrice Crivello;Blandine Grassiot;Annick Alpérovitch

  • The Brain’s Response to Reward Anticipation and Depression in Adolescence: Dimensionality, Specificity, and Longitudinal Predictions in a Community-Based Sample

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil;Eric Artiges;Hervé Lemaitre

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Heritability of fractional anisotropy in human white matter: A comparison of Human Connectome Project and ENIGMA-DTI data

    Peter Kochunov;Neda Jahanshad;Daniel Marcus;Anderson Winkler

  • Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

    Tulio Guadalupe;Samuel R. Mathias;Theo G.M. vanErp;Christopher D. Whelan;Christopher D. Whelan

  • Prefrontal cortical abnormalities in currently depressed versus currently remitted patients with major depressive disorder

    Giacomo Salvadore;Allison C. Nugent;Herve Lemaitre;David A. Luckenbaugh

  • Early Cannabis Use, Polygenic Risk Score for Schizophrenia and Brain Maturation in Adolescence

    Leon French;Courtney Gray;Gabriel Leonard;Michel Perron;Michel Perron

  • Multi-site study of additive genetic effects on fractional anisotropy of cerebral white matter: Comparing meta and megaanalytical approaches for data pooling

    Peter Kochunov;Neda Jahanshad;Emma Sprooten;Thomas E. Nichols

  • No ɛ4 gene dose effect on hippocampal atrophy in a large MRI database of healthy elderly subjects

    Hervé Lemaître;Fabrice Crivello;Carole Dufouil;Blandine Grassiot

  • Sleep habits, academic performance, and the adolescent brain structure

    Anna S. Urrila;Anna S. Urrila;Anna S. Urrila;Eric Artiges;Jessica Massicotte;Ruben Miranda

  • Effects of ApoE-ɛ4 allele load and age on the rates of grey matter and hippocampal volumes loss in a longitudinal cohort of 1186 healthy elderly persons

    Fabrice Crivello;Hervé Lemaître;Carole Dufouil;Blandine Grassiot

  • Automated Quality Assessment of Structural Magnetic Resonance Brain Images Based on a Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm

    Ricardo Pizarro;Ricardo Pizarro;Xi Cheng;Alan S. Barnett;Hervé Lemaître;Hervé Lemaître

  • EFhd2/Swiprosin-1 is a common genetic determinator for sensation-seeking/low anxiety and alcohol addiction.

    D Mielenz;M Reichel;T Jia;E B Quinlan

  • The IMAGEN study: a decade of imaging genetics in adolescents.

    Lea Mascarell Maričić;Henrik Walter;Annika Rosenthal;Stephan Ripke

  • Sleep habits, academic performance, and the adolescent brain structure

    Anna S. Urrila;Eric Artiges;Jessica Massicotte;Ruben Miranda

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Vincent Frouin
Vincent Frouin University of Paris-Saclay
Arun L.W. Bokde
Arun L.W. Bokde Trinity College Dublin

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