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Overview

Jean-François Démonet is affiliated with the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research focuses extensively on medicine, with 87 publications in this field, including significant work in psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and molecular biology.

The scientist's primary research topics encompass dementia and cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, cancer-related cognitive impairment, frailty in older adults, functional brain connectivity, reading and literacy development, and genetics related to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Jean-François Démonet has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Dementia prevention in memory clinics: recommendations from the European task force for brain health services (2023) - The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia (2022) - Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia (2020) - Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people (2022) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Modifiable risk factors for dementia and dementia risk profiling. A user manual for Brain Health Services-part 2 of 6 (2021) - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Regarding collaborations, Jean-François Démonet has frequently co-authored publications with:

  • Giovanni B. Frisoni
  • Daniele Altomare
  • Philip Scheltens
  • Frederik Barkhof
  • José Luís Molinuevo

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • GeroScience
  • Revue Médicale Suisse
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Dyslexia: cultural diversity and biological unity.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Jean Francois Demonet;Ferruccio Fazio;Eamon McCrory

  • The anatomy of phonological and semantic processing in normal subjects.

    Jean-François Démonet;François Chollet;Stuart Ramsay;Dominique Cardebat

  • Strategic roadmap for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease based on biomarkers

    Giovanni B Frisoni;Marina Boccardi;Frederik Barkhof;Kaj Blennow;Kaj Blennow

  • Renewal of the Neurophysiology of Language: Functional Neuroimaging

    Jean-François Démonet;Guillaume Thierry;Dominique Cardebat

  • Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity

    Karin Landerl;Karin Landerl;Franck Ramus;Kristina Moll;Kristina Moll;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using cortical thickness: impact of cognitive reserve.

    Olivier Querbes;Olivier Querbes;Florent Aubry;Florent Aubry;Jérémie Pariente;Jérémie Pariente;Jean-Albert Lotterie;Jean-Albert Lotterie

  • Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and spelling development in five European orthographies

    Kristina Moll;Franck Ramus;Juergen Bartling;Jennifer Bruder

  • Magnetic resonance imaging markers of Parkinson’s disease nigrostriatal signature

    Patrice Péran;Andrea Cherubini;Francesca Assogna;Fabrizio Piras

  • Perceptual Discrimination of Speech Sounds in Developmental Dyslexia

    Willy Serniclaes;Liliane Sprenger-Charolles;René Carré;Jean-Francois Demonet

  • Developmental dyslexia

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  • Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: a voxel based morphometry study.

    G. Silani;U. Frith;J.-F. Demonet;F. Fazio

  • The "handwriting brain": A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of motor versus orthographic processes.

    Samuel Planton;Mélanie Jucla;Franck-Emmanuel Roux;Franck-Emmanuel Roux;Jean-François Démonet

  • A PET study of cognitive strategies in normal subjects during language tasks. Influence of phonetic ambiguity and sequence processing on phoneme monitoring.

    J.-F. Démonet;C. Price;R. Wise;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Differential activation of right and left posterior sylvian regions by semantic and phonological tasks: a positron-emission tomography study in normal human subjects

    J.-F. Démonet;C. Price;R. Wise;R.S.J. Frackowiak

  • Functional MRI Follow-Up Study of Language Processes in Healthy Subjects and During Recovery in a Case of Aphasia

    Bruno Fernandez;Dominique Cardebat;Jean-François Demonet;Pierre Alain Joseph

  • Language functions explored in normal subjects by positron emission tomography: A critical review

    J. F. Démonet;R. Wise;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • The graphemic/motor frontal area Exner's area revisited

    Franck-Emmanuel Roux;Olivier Dufor;Carlo Giussani;Yannick Wamain

  • Dementia prevention in memory clinics: recommendations from the European task force for brain health services

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  • Neural substrates of spoken language rehabilitation in an aphasic patient: an fMRI study.

    A. Léger;Jean-François Démonet;Serge Ruff;B. Aithamon

  • Phonological skills, visual attention span, and visual stress in developmental dyslexia.

    Amanda Saksida;Stéphanie Iannuzzi;Caroline Bogliotti;Yves Chaix

  • Alzheimer's patients engage an alternative network during a memory task

    Jérémie Pariente;Susanna Cole;Richard Henson;Linda Clare

  • Clinical and imaging evidence of zolpidem effect in hypoxic encephalopathy.

    Christine Brefel-Courbon;Pierre Payoux;Fabierine Ory;Agnes Sommet

  • Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using cortical thickness: impact of cognitive reserve

    O Querbes;F Aubry;J Pariente;JA Lotterie

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyril Pernet
Cyril Pernet Copenhagen University Hospital
Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
François Chollet
François Chollet Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Paavo H.T. Leppänen
Paavo H.T. Leppänen University of Jyväskylä
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Sylviane Valdois
Sylviane Valdois Grenoble Alpes University
Umberto Sabatini
Umberto Sabatini Magna Graecia University
Gerd Schulte-Körne
Gerd Schulte-Körne Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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