The talk will be given by Valérie Godefroy, Tenure-Track Junior Professor UBE from the DOCC Team.

Note that the seminar will be held in French...

Starting 11 a.m. a coffee-break will be shared with Valérie and her colleagues. 

The quest of personality traits, how can we identify reliable indicators?

Personality traits influence the very specific ways in which individuals adapt to their environment. In particular, individual characteristics related to reactivity (i.e., the spontaneous response to environmental stimuli) and self-regulation (i.e., the ability to modulate this spontaneous response for adaptive purposes) play a central role in health.

Valérie’s work in the field of neuroscience has enabled her to identify behavioural and neurological markers that reliably predict these kinds of interindividual differences, with a view to potential applications in precision medicine and in the prevention of behavioural risks.

Based on this work, her current projects within the CSGA’s DOCC team are focused on identifying a behavioural and physiological signature of olfactory reactivity for the prediction of diet-related risks.

personality traits; reactivity; self-regulation; impulsivity; apathy; machine learning; biomarkers

Godefroy, V., Batrancourt, B., Charron, S., Bouzigues, A., Bendetowicz, D., Carle, G., ... & Levy, R. (2022). Functional connectivity correlates of reduced goal-directed behaviors in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Brain Structure and Function, 227(9), 2971-2989.

Godefroy, V., Durand, A., Simon, M. C., Weber, B., Kable, J., Lerman, C., ... & Koban, L. (2024). A structural MRI marker predicts individual differences in impulsivity and classifies patients with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia from matched controls. bioRxiv.