Valérie Godefroy

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Tenure-Track Junior Professor – Université Bourgogne Europe

PhD in Psychology

MSc in engineering

My research focuses on characterizing temperamental traits—that is, broad behavioral tendencies—that explain why individuals differ in their ability to adapt more or less effectively to their environment. I am particularly interested in identifying how traits such as apathy (lack of motivation), impulsivity, and inhibitory deficits manifest across different behavioral domains (e.g., eating behavior, motor behavior) and how they can be predicted using brain imaging measures (MRI). My work within the DOCC team is organized around two main objectives: (1) to better understand how traits such as apathy, impulsivity, and craving shape our responses to olfactory environments; and (2) to develop new markers of these traits based on responses to various odorants, with the aim of predicting eating-related phenotypes in different populations (across ages, as well as clinical groups with eating or behavioral disorders).
Alongside my research activities, I teach methodology and differential psychology to students at the University of Burgundy.

Differential psychology; Behavioral neuroscience; Temperamental traits; Reactivity; Self-regulation; Apathy; Impulsivity; Craving; Olfaction; Eating behavior

Bouzigues, A., Godefroy, V., Le Du, V., Russell, L.L., Houot, M., Le Ber, I., Batrancourt, B., Levy, R., Warren, J.D., Rohrer, J.D., Margulies, D. and Migliaccio, R. (2024). Disruption of Macroscale Functional Network Organisation in Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-12.

Godefroy, V., Sezer, I., Bouzigues, A., Montembeault, M., Koban, L., Plassmann, H., Migliaccio, R. (2023). Altered delay discounting in neurodegeneration: insight into the underlying mechanisms and perspectives for clinical applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105048.

Godefroy, V., Batrancourt, B., Charron, S., Bouzigues, A., Sezer, I., Bendetowicz, D., Carle, G., Rametti-Lacroux, A., Bombois, S., Cognat, E., Migliaccio, R., & Levy, R. (2022). Disentangling clinical profiles of apathy in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 90(2), 639–654.

Godefroy, V., Batrancourt, B., Charron, S., Bouzigues, A., Bendetowicz, D., Carle, G., Rametti-Lacroux, A., Bombois, S., Cognat, E., Migliaccio, R., & 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., Levy, R., Bouzigues, A., Rametti-Lacroux, A., Migliaccio, R., & Batrancourt, B. (2021). ECOCAPTURE@ HOME: Protocol for the Remote Assessment of Apathy and Its Everyday-Life Consequences. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(15), 7824.

Godefroy, V., Tanguy, D., Bouzigues, A., Sezer, I., Ferrand-Verdejo, J., Azuar, C., Bendetowicz, D., Carle, G., Rametti-Lacroux, A., Bombois, S., Cognat, E., Jannin, P., Morandi, X., Le Ber, I., Levy, R., Batrancourt, B., and Migliaccio, R. (2021). Frontotemporal dementia subtypes based on behavioural inhibition deficits. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 13(1), e12178.

Godefroy, V., Trinchera, L., & Dorard, G. (2020). Optimizing the empirical assessment of orthorexia nervosa through EHQ and clarifying its relationship with BMI. Eating and weight disorders-studies on anorexia bulimia and obesity, 26, 649-659.

Godefroy, V., Champel, C., Trinchera, L., & Rigal, N. (2018). Disentangling the effects of parental food restriction on child’s risk of overweight. Appetite, 123, 82-90.

Godefroy, V., Trinchera, L., Darcel, N., & Rigal, N. (2017). Behavioural measures of child’s eating temperament and their link with BMI. Appetite, 110, 6-14.

Godefroy, V., Trinchera, L., Romo, L., & Rigal, N (2016). Modelling the effect of temperament on BMI through appetite reactivity and self-regulation in eating: A Structural Equation Modelling approach in young adolescents. International Journal of Obesity, 40(4), 573-580.