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Overview

Véronique D. Bohbot is affiliated with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields within neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive functions related to memory and spatial abilities.

The primary areas of study that characterize Bohbot's work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these fields, the scientist's research has a concentration in subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Physiology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Bohbot's work consistently explores themes such as:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents

The scientist has multiple publications in journals favored for neuroscience and neuroimaging research, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Brain Communications
  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of the recent papers published by Bohbot and their collaborators are:

  • "Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Association of Elevated Amyloid and Tau Positron Emission Tomography Signal With Near-Term Development of Alzheimer Disease Symptoms in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment," 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • "Open science datasets from PREVENT-AD, a longitudinal cohort of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease," 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Fimbria-Fornix Volume Is Associated With Spatial Memory and Olfactory Identification in Humans," 2020, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • "Landmark-dependent Navigation Strategy Declines across the Human Life-Span: Evidence from Over 37,000 Participants," 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Collaboration is a significant component of Bohbot's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sylvia Villeneuve
  • John C.S. Breitner
  • D. Louis Collins
  • M. Mallar Chakravarty
  • Pedro Rosa-Neto

Best Publications

  • Cognitive strategies dependent on the hippocampus and caudate nucleus in human navigation: Variability and change with practice

    Giuseppe Iaria;Michael Petrides;Alain Dagher;Bruce Pike

  • Spatial memory deficits in patients with lesions to the right hippocampus and to the right parahippocampal cortex.

    Veronique D Bohbot;Miroslav Kalina;Katerina Stepankova;Natasa Spackova

  • Spatial navigational strategies correlate with gray matter in the hippocampus of healthy older adults tested in a virtual maze

    Kyoko Konishi;Véronique D. Bohbot

  • Gray Matter Differences Correlate with Spontaneous Strategies in a Human Virtual Navigation Task

    Véronique D. Bohbot;Jason Lerch;Brook Thorndycraft;Giuseppe Iaria

  • Maze training in mice induces MRI-detectable brain shape changes specific to the type of learning.

    Jason P. Lerch;Adelaide P. Yiu;Alonso Martinez-Canabal;Tetyana Pekar

  • Hippocampal function and spatial memory: evidence from functional neuroimaging in healthy participants and performance of patients with medial temporal lobe resections.

    Véronique D. Bohbot;Giuseppe Iaria;Michael Petrides

  • Global Determinants of Navigation Ability

    Antoine Coutrot;Antoine Coutrot;Ricardo Silva;Ed Manley;Will de Cothi

  • Low-frequency theta oscillations in the human hippocampus during real-world and virtual navigation

    Véronique D. Bohbot;Milagros S. Copara;Jean Gotman;Arne D. Ekstrom

  • Eye tracking, strategies, and sex differences in virtual navigation

    Nicolas E. Andersen;Louisa Dahmani;Kyoko Konishi;Véronique D. Bohbot

  • Memory Deficits Characterized by Patterns of Lesions to the Hippocampus and Parahippocampal Cortex

    Véronique D. Bohbot;John J.B. Allen;Lynn Nadel

  • Spontaneous navigational strategies and performance in the virtual town.

    Nicole Etchamendy;Veronique D. Bohbot

  • Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation.

    Louisa Dahmani;Véronique D Bohbot

  • Virtual navigation strategies from childhood to senescence: evidence for changes across the life span

    Veronique D Bohbot;Sam McKenzie;Kyoko Konishi;Celine Fouquet

  • Evidence for a virtual human analog of a rodent relational memory task: a study of aging and fMRI in young adults.

    Nicole Etchamendy;Nicole Etchamendy;Kyoko Konishi;G. Bruce Pike;Aline Marighetto

  • Caudate nucleus‐dependent navigational strategies are associated with increased use of addictive drugs

    Veronique D. Bohbot;Daniel Del Balso;Kate Conrad;Kyoko Konishi

  • Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults.

    Greg L. West;Benjamin Rich Zendel;Benjamin Rich Zendel;Kyoko Konishi;Jessica Benady-Chorney

  • Consolidation of memory.

    Lynn Nadel;Veronique Bohbot

  • Open science datasets from PREVENT-AD, a longitudinal cohort of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease.

    Jennifer Tremblay-Mercier;Cécile Madjar;Samir Das;Alexa Pichet Binette

  • Impact of video games on plasticity of the hippocampus

    G L West;K Konishi;M Diarra;J Benady-Chorney

  • Object-location memory impairment in patients with thermal lesions to the right or left hippocampus.

    Katerina Stepankova;André A Fenton;André A Fenton;Eva Pastalkova;Miroslav Kalina

  • Impaired Preference Conditioning after Anterior Temporal Lobe Resection in Humans

    Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Adrian M. Owen;Norman M. White;W. Vivienne Zhao

  • Decreased functional magnetic resonance imaging activity in the hippocampus in favor of the caudate nucleus in older adults tested in a virtual navigation task

    Kyoko Konishi;Nicole Etchamendy;Nicole Etchamendy;Shumita Roy;Aline Marighetto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo J. Spiers
Hugo J. Spiers University College London
Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Jan Bures
Jan Bures Czech Academy of Sciences
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Ridha Joober
Ridha Joober Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Pierre Bellec
Pierre Bellec University of Montreal
Pedro Rosa-Neto
Pedro Rosa-Neto McGill University
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval

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