Author(s): Arsenio Páez

Sleep loss is associated with reduced health and quality of life, and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Up to 66% of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias experience poor sleep, which can predict or accele ...

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Author(s): Papadatos Z; Phillips NA;

We examined cognitive domains and brain regions associated with olfactory performance in cognitively unimpaired older adults (CU-OAs) and individuals with or at risk for Alzheimer's Disease (AD). We compared CU-OAs (N = 55), individuals with subjective ...

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Author(s): Giroud N; Pichora-Fuller MK; Mick P; Wittich W; Al-Yawer F; Rehan S; Orange JB; Phillips NA; ...

Using data from the COMPASS-ND study we investigated associations between hearing loss and hippocampal volume as well as cortical thickness in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), ...

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Author(s): Calabria M; Ciongoli F; Grunden N; Ordás C; García-Sánchez C;

Background: Recent research has shown that background music may improve memory consolidation and retrieval. Nevertheless, in the clinical conditions preceding dementia such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), there is no current evidence sp ...

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Author(s): Guthrie DM; Williams N; Campos J; Mick P; Orange JB; Pichora-Fuller MK; Savundranayagam MY; Wittich W; Phillips NA; ...

Vision and hearing impairments are highly prevalent in adults 65 years of age and older. There is a need to understand their association with multiple health-related outcomes. We analyzed data from ...

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Author(s): Legault-Denis C; Aghourian M; Soucy JP; Rosa-Neto P; Dagher A; Aumont E; Wickens R; Bedard MA; ...

Background: Severe cholinergic degeneration is known to occur in Parkinson's disease (PD) and is thought to play a primary role in the cognitive decline associated with this disease. Although c ...

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Author(s): Sana Rehan

CONCLUSION: Our findings demonstrate poor visual performance in AD and that both group membership and visual performance are predictors of cortical pathology, consistent with the idea that atrophy in visual areas and pathways contributes to the functional v ...

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Author(s): Belleville S, Mellah S, Cloutier S, Dang-Vu TT, Duchesne S, Maltezos S, Phillips N, Hudon C, CIMA-Q group ...

INTRODUCTION: Cognitive reserve can be defined as a property of the brain that enables an individual to sustain cognitive performance in spite of age-related neural changes. This study uses brain i ...

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Author(s): Murphy C; Johnson AP; Koenekoop RK; Seiple W; Overbury O;

Recent literature has reported a higher occurrence of cognitive impairment among individuals with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) compared to older adults with normal vision. This pilot study explored potential links between single nucleotide polymor ...

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Author(s): Montero-Odasso M; Pieruccini-Faria F; Ismail Z; Li K; Lim A; Phillips N; Kamkar N; Sarquis-Adamson Y; Speechley M; Theou O; Verghese J; Wall ...

Introduction: Cognitive impairment is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias. However, motor decline has been recently described as a prodromal state that can help to de ...

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Author(s): Pascoal TA, Therriault J, Mathotaarachchi S, Kang MS, Shin M, Benedet AL, Chamoun M, Tissot C, Lussier F, Mohaddes S, Soucy JP, Massarweh G, ...

INTRODUCTION: Abnormal brain amyloid beta (Aβ) is typically assessed in vivo using global concentrations from cerebrospinal fluid and positron emission tomography (PET). However, it is unknown ...

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