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Data-Driven Approaches to Modeling Heterogeneity and Variability Across Asymptomatic Brain and Cognitive Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease
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Objective We apply data-driven approaches to identify predictors of heterogeneous trajectories across normal aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In Study 1, we investigated predictors of left and right hippocampal (HC) volume trajectory classes. In Study 2, we...
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2023-10-01
Low, Gail, França, Alex, Gutman, Gloria, Gao, Zhiwei, Wilson, Donna, Vitorino, Luciano, Humboldt, Sofia, Allana, Hunaina
Older Canadians managed anxiety as social distancing lifted using a wide variety of coping strategies.
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2023-08-31
Low, Gail, Gao, Zhiwei, Gutman, Gloria, Wilson, Donna, França, Alex, Vitorino, Luciano, von Humboldt, Sofia, Allana, Hunaina, Kolskog, Maynard
The COVID-19 pandemic, which greatly affected older people, created a prime opportunity to learn from them about their mentally healthy living strategies—including tips on the most effective strategies for managing anxiety. That was the goal of the RTOERO Foundation-funded project Mentally...
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2023-10-01
Low, Gail, Humbodlt, Sofia, Wilson, Donna, Gutman, Gloria, Gao, Zhiwei, França, Alex, Vitorino, Luciano, Allana, Hunaina
Good health promotion information is borne by sound evidence and advice from those who have walked a mile in older Canadians’ shoes.
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Fall 2023
The multidimensional nature of family life can make navigating relationships across distance and time complex. As families become more mobile there is acknowledgment of a knowledge gap in understanding how family dynamics and bonds extend across borders. Issues of continuity and change within...
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Gait and Cognition: Exploring Cognition and Dual-task Costs in a Group of Community Dwelling Alzheimer’s Disease Patients over 6 Months
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder resulting in cognitive decline affecting many activities of daily living including gait. Many tools exist to monitor AD progression, including cognitive examinations, and functional tests of mobility. The purpose of the present study is...
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Using Machine Learning to Identify Common Engagement-Related Behaviours Demonstrated by Older Adults with Dementia While Playing Mobile Games
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Background: Dementia causes impairment of a person’s memory, cognitive abilities, and behaviour, making it difficult for a person to complete daily tasks. Dementia affects the behavioural, psychological, and social dimensions of older adults living with the disease. Older adults living with...
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Thermal response of amyloidogenic elements in cultured N2a cells: potential relevance to Alzheimer’s disease pathology
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) weighs a large burden on health care systems, families and caregiving networks around the world. It is the most common dementia afflicting elderly individuals, and causes many debilitating symptoms, including memory loss, mood swings and confusion which progress in...
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Fall 2020
Tauopathies are a class of neurological disorders associated with the aggregation of the tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles. The most prominent tauopathy is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which presents as two forms: early onset (familial, fAD) and late onset (sporadic, sAD). sAD does not have a...
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Putative ante-mortem indicators of Alzheimer’s dementia: Analysis of fluid biomarker and neuroimaging studies
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Dementia is a clinical state, characterized by symptoms indicative of deterioration of memoryand cognitive functions that interferes with social or occupational functioning. According to2018 statistics, around 50 million people are living with dementia, and this number will increaseto 131.5...