Des membres du CCNV bien actifs au congrès AAIC>2020

La Conférence annuelle du Alzheimer’s Association International qui devait avoir lieu à Amsterdam du 27 au 31 juillet 2020, s’est transformée en conférence virtuelle.

Plusieurs chercheurs canadiens, dont beaucoup sont des  membres du CCNV, contribuent au succès de l’événement et à la lutte à la démence en présentant des conférences, des ateliers préenregistrés ou en direct, ainsi que des présentations d’affiches.

Présentations, clavardage, sessions pré-enregistrées et questions en direct

BELLEVILLE, Sylvie  The Brain Health Support Program: A web-based interactive platform to increase dementia literacy and awareness regarding lifestyle factors in at-risk individuals.

BURHAN, Amer  Actigraphy as a proxy biomarker for motoric agitation in Alzheimer disease.

CALON, Frederic  Interactions between insulin, the blood-brain barrier, and beta-amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease.

DIXON, R.A.  Machine learning approaches for precision mining of longitudinal data.

DUCHARME, Simon  Psychiatric symptoms in the early detection and differential diagnosis of FTD.

FIELD, Thalia  Machine learning analysis of speech and eye tracking data to distinguish Alzheimer’s clinic patients from healthy controls.

FISCHER, Corinne  White matter texture abnormalities are associated with delusional severity in a cognitively mixed sample of older adults.

MONTERO-ODASSO, Manuel   Abnormal brain structure mediates the association between ApoE4 and slow gait among patients with pathological cognitive impairment: Results from the Ontario Neurodegenerative Research Initiative.

NYGAARD, Haakon   A phase 1b multiple ascending dose study of the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of a medium chain triglyceride supplement in Alzheimer’s disease.

ROSA-NETO, Pedro  Neuroinflammation imposes vulnerability to tau propagation.

WALKER, Jennifer  Adaptation of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment in three provinces and evidence for validity.

 

Présentations d’affiches

ASTELL, Arlene   People with dementia experiencing presence in Mixed Reality Technologies.

BETHELL, Jennifer   Patient engagement in research on dementia: perceptions from researchers in a multidisciplinary research consortium.

CASHMAN, Neil   Targeting of misfolded, pathogenic TDP-43 with rationally designed antibodies.

DESCOTEAUX, Maxime  Longitudinal assessment of neuroinflammation & axonal loss in white matter tracts in Alzheimer’s Disease.

ISMAIL, Zahinoor   APOE ε4 status in pre-dementia risk states, mild behavioural impairment and subjective cognitive decline, and the risk of incident cognitive decline

ISMAIL, Zahinoor   Mild Behavioral Impairment associates with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and greater risk of incident dementia in patients with MCI.

ITURRIA MEDINA, Yasser   AI-inferred Gene Expression Trajectories Mirror Neuropathology and Clinical Deterioration in Neurodegeneration.

KIRK, Andrew  Do depressive symptoms at time of diagnosis affect the course of dementia over one year?

KUMAR, Sanjeev   Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Excitability assessed using TMS-EEG and its relationship with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Dementia.

LANCTOT, Krista   Investigating the relationship between neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients undergoing an exerciseprimed transcranial direct current stimulation clinical trial (The EXPRESS Study).

McAINEY, Carrie  Evaluating the “Codesigning dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic care” (COGNISANCE) project.

McFALL, Peggy, DIXON, Roger A, MASELLIS, Mario, BLACK, Sandra Association of ventricular size on executive function and attention is modified by Apolipoprotein E and moderated by pulse pressure in Alzheimer’s disease.

McGILTON, Katherine   Best Practices for Rehabilitation for Older Adults with Dementia.

O’CONNELL, Megan   Classification Accuracy of the English Version of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (CICA) in a Majority Culture Memory Clinic Sample.

PHILLIPS, Natalie  Sensory function, cognition, and brain structure in SCD, MCI, and AD: Initial findings from the COMPASS-ND study.

PLOTKIN, Steven  Epitope prediction for oligomer-selective antibodies in tau and Aβ.

RAJJI, Tarek  Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Metabolites and their Relationship with Plasticity in Alzheimer’s Disease.

TANG-WAI, David Toronto Dementia Research Alliance (TDRA) Dementia Clinical-Research Platform: An Example of Research Embedded into Clinical Care.

WELLINGTON, Cheryl  Cerebrovascular Amyloid Angiopathy in Bioengineered Vessels is Reduced by High-Density Lipoprotein Particles Enriched in Apolipoprotein E.

 

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