Author(s): Soucy JP; Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier FZ; Rosa-Neto P; Rivaz HJ; Benali H;

Background: Tau aggregates in Alzheimer's disease (AD) induce loss of synapses and neurons, leading to cognitive impairment. Predicting tau and neurodegeneration temporal evolution could be used for prognostication and for assessing results of therapeutic trials. Tau PET and MRI volumetry are ...

Article GUID: 39782975

Author(s): Soucy JP; Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier FZ; Rosa-Neto P; Rivaz HJ; Benali H;

Background: Tau aggregates in Alzheimer's disease (AD) induce loss of synapses and neurons, leading to cognitive impairment. Predicting tau and neurodegeneration temporal evolution could be used for prognostication and for assessing results of therapeutic trials. Tau PET and MRI volumetry are ...

Article GUID: 39784152

Author(s): Lima BS; Rosa-Neto P; Phillips N; Borrie M; Roncero CT; Lahiri D; Dori D; Chertkow H;

Background: A growing body of research has focused on inflammation as both a potential biomarker and a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders and in the physiological homeostasis of neural tissue. AD has been associated with increased IL-6 expression in brai ...

Article GUID: 39751468

Author(s): Chertkow H; Phillips N; Rockwood K; Anderson N; Andrew MK; Bartha R; Beaudoin C; Bélanger N; Bellec P; Belleville S; Bergman H; Best S; Bethell J; Bherer L; Black S; Borrie M; Camicioli R; Carrier J; Cashman N; Chan S; Crowshoe L; Cuello ...

The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) was created by the Canadian federal government through its health research funding agency, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), in 2014, as a response to the G7 initiative to fight dementia. Two five-year funding cycles ( ...

Article GUID: 39636028

Author(s): Wearn A; Tremblay SA; Tardif CL; Leppert IR; Gauthier CJ; Baracchini G; Hughes C; Hewan P; Tremblay-Mercier J; Rosa-Neto P; Poirier J; Villeneuve S; Schmitz TW; Turner GR; Spreng RN;

The neuromodulatory subcortical nuclei within the isodendritic core (IdC) are the earliest sites of tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease (AD). They project broadly throughout the brain's white matter. We investigated the relationship between IdC microstructure and whole-brain white matter mic ...

Article GUID: 38830849

Author(s): Scala SG; Kang MS; Cox SML; Rosa-Neto P; Massarweh G; Leyton M;

Addictions are thought to be fostered by the emergence of poorly regulated mesocorticolimbic responses to drug-related cues. The development and persistence of these responses might be promoted by altered glutamate transmission, including changes to type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR5s). Unknown, however, is when these changes arise and whethe ...

Article GUID: 38221806

Author(s): Bdair H; Kang MS; Ottoy J; Aliaga A; Kunach P; Singleton TA; Blinder S; Soucy JP; Leyton M; Rosa-Neto P; Kostikov A;

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive functional imaging modality that involves in vivo detection of spatiotemporal changes in the binding of radioactive pharmaceuticals (a.k.a. PET tracers) to their target sites in different organs. The development of new PET tracers commonly invol ...

Article GUID: 38006502

Author(s): Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Pascoal T; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier F; Rosa-Neto P; Soucy JP; Rivaz H; Benali H;

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis in its early stages remains difficult with current diagnostic approaches. Though tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) generally follow the stereotypical pattern described by the Braak staging scheme, the network degeneration hypothesis (NDH) has su ...

Article GUID: 37920382

Author(s): Bdair H; Singleton TA; Ross K; Jolly D; Kang MS; Aliaga A; Tuznik M; Kaur T; Yous S; Soucy JP; Massarweh G; Scott PJH; Koeppe R; Spadoni G; Bedini A; Rudko DA; Gobbi G; Benkelfat C; Rosa-Neto P; Brooks AF; Kostikov A;

Melatonin is a neurohormone that modulates several physiological functions in mammals through the activation of melatonin receptor type 1 and 2 (MT1 and MT2). The melatonergic system is an emerging therapeutic target for new pharmacological interventions in the treatment of sleep and mood disorde ...

Article GUID: 35420022

Author(s): Legault-Denis C; Aghourian M; Soucy JP; Rosa-Neto P; Dagher A; Aumont E; Wickens R; Bedard MA;

Background: Severe cholinergic degeneration is known to occur in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is thought to play a primary role in the cognitive decline associated with this disease. Although cholinergic losses occur in all patients with PD, cognitive performance remains normal for many of th ...

Article GUID: 34628195

Author(s): Brisson M; Brodeur C; Létourneau-Guillon L; Masellis M; Stoessl J; Tamm A; Zukotynski K; Ismail Z; Gauthier S; Rosa-Neto P; Soucy JP;

Since 1989, four Canadian Consensus Conferences on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTDs) have provided evidence-based dementia diagnostic and treatment guidelines for Canadian clinicians and researchers. We present the results from the Neuroimaging and Fluid Biomarkers Group of the 5t ...

Article GUID: 33532543