Author(s): Borrie MJ; Phillips NA; Best S; Anastasiou-Ventura P; Aydogan T; Beaudoin C; Beuk J; Celotto I; Cole L; Das S; Fogarty J; Fouquet C; Gnassi L; Henri-Bellemare C; Pilon R; Sands J; Stirbu A; Truemner J; Chan S; Tucker A; Gajraj J; Bhangu ...

Background: The Comprehensive Assessment of Neurodegeneration and Dementia (COMPASS-ND) used wide inclusion criteria recruiting participants across the spectrum from normal cognition to cognitive impairment to all types of clinical dementia, including mixed dementia. 1173 participants comprising ...

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Author(s): Gurve D; Centen AP; Slack PJ; Dang-Vu TT; Belleville S; Anderson ND; Montero-Odasso M; Nygaard HB; Chertkow H; Feldman HH; Brewster PWH; Lim A;

Background: Older adults experience considerable day-to-day variability in cognitive function. We aimed to test the hypothesis that this is in part related to sleep, and determine which EEG sleep features are most important in supporting day to day cognitive resilience. Method: We analyzed data ...

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Author(s): Seixas-Lima B; Rosa-Neto P; Phillips NA; Borrie M; Roncero CT; Lahiri D; Dori D; Eintracht S; Chertkow H;

Background"Inflammaging" describes chronic low-grade inflammation observed in aging individuals. It may play a major role in neurodegeneration.ObjectiveTo assess blood inflammatory markers in older adults. We hypothesized that elevated inflammation would be found in some cognitively nor ...

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Author(s): Smith EE; Phillips NA; Feldman HH; Borrie M; Ganesh A; Henri-Bhargava A; Desmarais P; Frank A; Badhwar A; Barlow L; Bartha R; Best S; Bethell J; Bhangu J; Black SE; Bocti C; Bronskill SE; Burhan AM; Calon F; Camicioli R; Campbell B; Coll ...

Lecanemab and donanemab are monoclonal antibody therapies that remove amyloid-beta from the brain. They are the first therapies that alter a fundamental mechanism, amyloid-beta deposition, in Alzheimer disease (AD). To inform Canadian decisions on approval and use of these drugs, the Canadian Con ...

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Author(s): Lima BS; Rosa-Neto P; Phillips N; Borrie M; Roncero CT; Lahiri D; Dori D; Chertkow H;

Background: A growing body of research has focused on inflammation as both a potential biomarker and a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders and in the physiological homeostasis of neural tissue. AD has been associated with increased IL-6 expression in brai ...

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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): Roncero C; Nikelski J; Soucy JP; Lahiri D; Seixas-Lima B; Chertkow H;

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Author(s): Chertkow H; Rockwood K; Hogan DB; Phillips N; Montero-Odasso M; Amanullah S; Black S; Bocti C; Borrie M; Feldman H; Freedman M; Hsiung R; Kirk A; Masellis M; Nygaard H; Rajji T; Verret L;

Alzheimer's disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Currently, there are no disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for this condition. Aducanumab, an amyloid beta-directed monoclonal antibody that targets aggregated forms of amyloid-beta in the brains of people with Alzheimer's ...

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Author(s): Ismail Z, Black SE, Camicioli R, Chertkow H, Herrmann N, Laforce R, Montero-Odasso M, Rockwood K, Rosa-Neto P, Seitz D, Sivananthan S, Smith EE, Soucy JP, Vedel I, Gauthier S, CCCDTD5 participants

Alzheimers Dement. 2020 Jul 29;: Authors: Ismail Z, Black SE, Camicioli R, Chertkow H, Herrmann N, Laforce R, Montero-Odasso M, Rockwood K, Rosa-Neto P, Seitz D, Sivananthan S, Smith EE, Soucy JP, Vedel I, Gauthier S, CCCDTD5 participants

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Author(s): Phillips NA, Andrews M, Chertkow H, Pichora-Fuller MK, Rockwood K, Wittich W

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 May 12;: Authors: Phillips NA, Andrews M, Chertkow H, Pichora-Fuller MK, Rockwood K, Wittich W PMID: 32396983 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Author(s): Phillips NA, Chertkow H, Pichora-Fuller MK, Wittich W

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Apr 06;: Authors: Phillips NA, Chertkow H, Pichora-Fuller MK, Wittich W PMID: 32253754 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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