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 ( ...

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Author(s): Arsenio Páez, Emmanuel Frimpong, Melodee Mograss, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu

Sleep loss is associated with reduced health and quality of life, and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Up to 66% of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias experience poor sleep, which can predict or accelerate the progression of cognitive decline. Exercise is a widely accessible intervention for poor ...

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Author(s): Giroud N; Pichora-Fuller MK; Mick P; Wittich W; Al-Yawer F; Rehan S; Orange JB; Phillips NA;

Using data from the COMPASS-ND study we investigated associations between hearing loss and hippocampal volume as well as cortical thickness in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's dementia (AD). SCD participants with greater pu ...

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Author(s): Elliott J; Stolee P; Mairs K; Kothari A; Conklin J;

The use of communities of practice (CoP) to support the application of knowledge in improved geriatric care practice is not widely understood. This case study's aim was to gain a deeper understanding of the knowledge-to-action (KTA) processes of a CoP focused on environmental design, to improve how persons with dementia find their way around in long-t ...

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Author(s): Genoe MR; Fortune D; Whyte C;

Although friendship is vital in later life, particularly amongst people who are living with dementia, little is known about how friendships are sustained following a diagnosis. Some research suggests that, because of dementia-related stigma, friendships dissolve following diagnosis; however, other researchers have shown that friendships can persist in dem ...

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Author(s): Arsalan Rahimabadi

Considering the reaction schemes (20) and (21) in Fornari et al., 2020, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (22) in Fornari et al., 2020) are not correct. Thus, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (12) in Fornari et al., 2020) are also incorrect when the reaction schemes (10) and (11) in Fornari et al., 2020 are taken into account. Here, the correct equations wil ...

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Author(s): Yao CW; Pelletier A; Fereshtehnejad SM; Cross N; Dang-Vu T; Postuma RB;

Study objectives: To identify the association between insomnia symptoms and signs of prodromal neurodegeneration, including an analysis of potential differences between sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance insomnia. Methods: We included those aged 45-85 years, living in one of 10 Canadian provinces in between 2012-2015 (at the baseline), recruited via three ...

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Author(s): Pieruccini-Faria F, Black SE, Masellis M, Smith EE, Almeida QJ, Li KZH, Bherer L, Camicioli R, Montero-Odasso M

INTRODUCTION: Gait impairment is common in neurodegenerative disorders. Specifically, gait variability-the stride-to-stride fluctuations in distance and time-has been associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment. However, quantitative comparisons of gait impairments across the cogni ...

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Author(s): Yitshak-Sade M, Nethery R, Schwartz JD, Mealli F, Dominici F, Di Q, Abu Awad Y, Ifergane G, Zanobetti A

BACKGROUND: Although long-term exposure to particulate matter METHODS: We constructed daily zipcode counts of hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries older than 65 across the United-States (2000-2014). We obtained daily PM2.5 estimates from a satellite-based model. A propensity score matchi ...

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Author(s): Montero-Odasso M; Pieruccini-Faria F; Ismail Z; Li K; Lim A; Phillips N; Kamkar N; Sarquis-Adamson Y; Speechley M; Theou O; Verghese J; Wallace L; Camicioli R;

Introduction: Cognitive impairment is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias. However, motor decline has been recently described as a prodromal state that can help to detect at-risk individuals. Similarly, sensory changes, sleep and behavior disturbances, and frailty h ...

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Author(s): Hudon C, Escudier F, De Roy J, Croteau J, Cross N, Dang-Vu TT, Zomahoun HTV, Grenier S, Gagnon JF, Parent A, Bruneau MA, Belleville S, Consortium for the Early Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease – Quebec

Neuropsychol Rev. 2020 May 11;: Authors: Hudon C, Escudier F, De Roy J, Croteau J, Cross N, Dang-Vu TT, Zomahoun HTV, Grenier S, Gagnon JF, Parent A, Bruneau MA, Belleville S, Consortium for the Early Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease – Quebec

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