François Guillem

Research areas

Biological, Psychological and Social Signatures of Mental Health
Treatment and Rehabilitation adapted to Populations

Academic profile

Chercheur agrégé, Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal
Master, Physiologie-Neurosciences, Université de Bordeaux 1 (France)
Predoc diploma, Neurosciences, de Bordeaux 2 (France)
Ph. D. , Cognitive Sciences, Université de Bordeaux 2 (France)
Post-doc, Neuropsychiatrie, McGill University Profil

Research interests

• Clinical and experimental research
• Cognitive impairments in schizophrenia (neuropsychology & electrophysiology)
• Relationships between symptoms and cognition
• Relationships between personality traits and symptoms

Recents Publications

Guillem, F., Satterthwaite, J., Pampoulova, T., & Stip, E. (2009). Relationship between psychotic and obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 115(2-3), 358-362. Pubmed

Guillem, F., Mendrek, A., Lavoie, M. E., Pampoulova, T., & Stip, E. (2009). Sex differences in memory processing in schizophrenia: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 33(1), 1-10.

Mograss, M. A., Guillem, F., & Stickgold, R (2010). Individual differences in face recognition memory: Comparison among habitual short, average, and long sleepers. Behavioural brain research. Pubmed

Mograss MA, Guillem F., Brazzini-Poisson V, Godbout R. (2009). The effects of total sleep deprivation on recognition memory processes: a study of event-related potential. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 91(4):343-352.

Guillem, F., Pampoulova, T., Rinaldi, M., & Stip, E. (2008). Temperament and executive dysfunctions in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 104(1-3), 175-184.

Guillem, F., Rinaldi, M., Parnpoulova, T., & Stip, E. (2008). The complex relationships between executive functions and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 38(6), 853-860.

Mograss, M. A., Guillem, F., & Godbout, R. (2008). Event-related potentials differentiates the processes involved in the effects of sleep on recognition memory. Psychophysiology, 45(3), 420-434.

Chouinard, S., Stip, E., Guillem, F., et al. (2007). "Rivastigmine Treatment as an Add-On to Antipsychotics in Patients with Schizophrenia and Cognitive Deficits." Current Medical Research and Opinion(23): 575-583.

Guillaume, F., Guillem, F., et al. (2007). "Use of the Process Dissociation Procedure to Study the Contextual Effects on Face Recognition in Schizophrenia: Familiarity, Associative Recollection and Discriminative Recollection." Psychiatry research 149(1-3):105-19.

Stip, E., Corbière, M., Guillem, F., et al. (2007). "Intrusion Errors in Explicit Memory: Their Differential Relationship with Clinical and Social Outcome in Chronic Schizophrenia." Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 12(2):112-177.

Guillem, F., Chouinard, S., et al. (2006). "Are Cholinergic Enhancers Beneficial for Memory in Schizophrenia? An Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) Study of Rivastigmine Add-On Therapy in a Crossover Trial." Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 30(5): 934-945.

Mograss, M., Guillem, F., et al. (2006). "The ERP Old/New Effect: A Useful Indicator in Studying the Effects of Sleep on Memory Retrieval Processes." Sleep 29(11):1491-500.

Guillem, F., Ganeva, E., et al. (2005). "Changes in the Neuropsychological Correlates of Clinical Dimensions Between the Acute and Stable Phase of Schizophrenia." Brain & Cognition, 57: 93-101.

Guillem, F., Mograss, M. (2005). "Gender Differences in Memory Processing: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials to Faces." Brain & Cognition 57: 84-92.

Guillem, F., Pampoulova, T., et al. (2005). "Symptom Dimensions and Dysphoria in Schizophrenia: their Relationships and Cognitive Interpretations." Schizophrenia Research 75: 83-96.

Guillem, F., Pampoulova, T., et al. (2005). "Are there Common Mechanisms in Sensation Seeking and Reality Distortion in Schizophrenia: An Event-Related Potentials Study." Psychiatry Research 135:11-33.

Guillem, F., Bicu, M., et al. (2003). "The Cognitive and Anatomo-Functional Basis of Reality Distortion in Schizophrenia: A View from Memory Event-Related Potentials." Psychiatry Research 15(117): 137-158.