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#Dementia symptoms are often caused by many overlapping diseases. An ONDRI study highlighted that clinicians and researchers should consider incorporating 🧠 #MRIs more widely in the assessment of #Alzheimers disease. More: bit.ly/3AzrJij #WorldAlzheimerMonth

Early Versus Delayed Non–Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulant Therapy After Acute Ischemic Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation (TIMING): A Registry-Based Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Study ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

BREAKING: Canada has now lost more lives to COVID than we did in all of World War II. 44370 Canadians have died from Covid, including my father. And if you think it’s “almost over,” remember that more have died of Covid this year already than in 2020 or 2021.

AcT Trial: Protocol for a Pragmatic Registry‐Linked Randomized Clinical Trial ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Check out our illustrated review published in RPTH comparing TNK to tPA and presenting the latest evidence on TNK in stroke! Illustrations by the talented caz. Amy Yu, MD ShelaghCouttsMD Eric Tseng onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Unflappable, unstoppable and unfailingly kind to patients, families and colleagues alike. So proud to work with Christine Hawkes, MD Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

…but hurts way less when stepped on in the middle of the night!

Doing CPR and using an AED on a person in cardiac arrest double their chance for survival. Watch this video to learn the basics of CPR in 90 seconds. #WorldRestartAHeart

Congrats Jenny! 🎉 So well deserved! Go get ‘em! 💪🏼 🇨🇦

It’s new paper day! How COVID-19 infection affects your memory, attention, decision-making and mental health. Despite the promo video, this one was no walk in the park. @conorwild Rick Swartz Loretta Norton #davidripsman Western University Western BrainsCAN news.westernu.ca/2022/10/long-c…

With generous funding from CIFAR and Manulife, we followed almost 500 people across the world as they recovered from COVID-19 infection. The paper is #openaccess and available to everybody to read here cell.com/cell-reports-m…

There are 12 black dots at intersections in this image. Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. Here's why [read more: bit.ly/2qxnuj5]

Congratulations Isabelle Aubert on this very exciting and groundbreaking preclinical study!

In a randomized, double-blind, phase II trial, Koch et al. find that 24 weeks of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the precuneus slows down cognitive and functional decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. bit.ly/3SUOGnv

Results of AcT LVO analysis presented at #WSC2022 No significant differences in mRS 0-1, pre-interventional successful reperfusion (by eTICI and AOL scales) between tPA and TNK. Mohammed Almekhlafi Bijoy K Menon Fouzi Bala nishita singh Edmonton Stroke Program Vancouver Stroke Program World Stroke Org

See a clot (without a big stroke), take it out. Simple, fast, effective.

Ontario isn’t bringing back a mask mandate even to help kids — COVID has beaten it out of us - Toronto Star apple.news/A_KppKj10RDKrg…