Phoebe Foster

Research Assistant

Phoebe is a research assistant working within the core GENFI team. She had previously been a visitor to the team for her placement year (2020-21) as part of a BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Manchester when she worked on a GENFI project studying loss of empathy in people with FTD. She started as a research assistant in August 2022.

  • Examining empathy deficits across familial forms of frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Foster PH, Russell LL, Peakman G, Convery RS, Bouzigues A, Greaves CV, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia C, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tagliavini F, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Danek A, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Cortex. 2022;150:12-28.