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Parental Experiences of a Parent-assisted Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
DownloadFall 2014
The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) is a parent-assisted social skills program for teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In the PEERS program, the parents play a vital role in supporting and coaching their teen’s skill development. The purpose of this...
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2007
Forbes, D.A., Wood, J., Morgan, D., Taylor, B., Markle-Reid, M., Forbes, S.C.
This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: 1.To evaluate the effects of physical activity programs on function (e.g., activities of daily [ADLs], physical function), cognition, mood, behaviour, and mortality in older persons with dementia. 2.To...
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2008
Morgan, D., Wood, J., Culum, I., Markle-Reid, M., Forbes, S.C., Forbes, D.A.
Background. There is some evidence that physical activity delays the onset of dementia in healthy older adults and slows down cognitive decline to prevent the onset of cognitive disability. Studies using animal models suggest that physical activity has the potential to attenuate the...
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Putative ante-mortem indicators of Alzheimer’s dementia: Analysis of fluid biomarker and neuroimaging studies
DownloadSpring 2019
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...
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Role of Glutamate and GABA in a mouse model expressing mutant human APP in the absence of NPC1 protein
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Cholesterol plays a critical role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. To address this issue we have generated a line of ANPC transgenic mice that overexpress mutant-human amyloid precursor protein in the absence of cholesterol transporting...
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Roles of the Insulin-like Growth Factor-II/Cation-independent Mannose 6-phosphate Receptor and Cathepsin D in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of senile dementia affecting the elderly. A critical contributing factor to the neurodegeneration and development of AD pathology stems from the processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP), leading to the generation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides....
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Short- and Long-Term Impacts of A Working Memory Intervention for Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
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This dissertation consists of two studies designed to: (1) determine the neurobehavioural profile reflecting the strengths and limitations of children with Parental Alcohol Exposure (PAE) and (2) evaluate the short- and long-term impacts of a 25-session Cogmed© intervention on improving working...
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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...