As our population ages, the number of people with dementia is increasing rapidly. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia (syndrome of memory and functional impairment). Treating frailty may better support patients, families, and aid in health care delivery. P...
This guest blog was written by CCNA researchers Ashley Curtis, Mario Masellis, Richard Camicioli, Heather Davidson, and Mary Tierney Parkinson’s disease (PD) mainly affects the body’s motor system. It’s symptoms – which result from the long-term degeneration of the centr...
“We have learned that the brain processes involved in activities like walking, and the processes involved in how a person solves a problem share similar locations and networks in the brain. Because problems with mobility are connected to a reduction in cognitive function, they...
“Finding early dementia detection methods is vital. In the future, it is conceivable that we will be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias before people even have significant memory loss. My team and I believe that gait, as a complex brain-motor task, provid...
“Genetics is now widely applied to diagnosis, monitoring and the search for a potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The ability to detect carriers of causal mutations could help evaluate the efficacy of therapies in clinical trials of individuals at either the pre...
The following is a guest post by CCNA researcher, Dr. Sarah Pakzad, Ph.D., L.Psych. Because frailty carries an increased risk for poor health outcomes – including hospitalization, falls, disability, and even mortality – properly measuring and accurately describing frailty rema...
The following is a guest post by Nadia Sourial, a CCNA trainee working under the supervision of Dr. Isabelle Vedel. As Canada’s population ages, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will double to 1.1 million over the next 20 years. The impact on th...
The following is a guest post written by Drs. Corinne Fischer, Luis Fornazzari, Tom Schweizer, Michael Thaut, David Munoz, and Joseph Barfett Over half a million Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and this number is expected to rise – exponentially – over the ...
This study is an important first step in understanding the genetic aspects of Dementia with Lewy Bodies and helps to clarify the contribution of genetics to the development of this disease and its relationship to other neurodegenerative diseases. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB...
The following is a guest post by CCNA researcher, Dr. Janusz Kaczorowski. Physical inactivity, poor diet, and tobacco use are each risk factors for dementia, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. These health conditions are on the rise in Canada, despite the fact that each of th...