New potentially disease modifying drugs are in the pipe for #Dementia and contributing diseases. These will require a more ‘personalized medicine’ approach. HANDDS-ONT is working towards uncovering relevant #biomarkers. Know someone who may be interested? ondri.ca/handds

Today we bring you part 2 of “adjusting expectations from the #holidays” through the lens of a family living with #dementia. They hope that by candidly sharing their own experiences, they are providing support and perspective to others: bit.ly/3G3oq6X #dementiasupport

New pub! ONDRI researchers @AshCParr Douglas Munoz et al, supported by a Parkinson Canada grant, used a simplified digital form of ‘rock paper scissors’ to measure the impact of #genetic #dopamine function on decision making in people with #parkinsons. More: bit.ly/3BUGv4J

Decentralized #ClinicalTrials (AKA remote or virtual clinical trials) include participants located outside of the study site. Clinical Trials ON wants to hear your thoughts related to being in a decentralized trial: tinyurl.com/469ehe8s

Good fats go bad in diseased small vessels in the 🧠 A new ONDRI #publication led by researchers Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Research Institute proposes an innovative disease pathway for small vessel disease and uncovers a new #bloodbasedbiomarker bit.ly/3vGOQWf Kullervo Hynynen #stroke

January is Alzheimer's Awareness Month in Canada. During this month we encourage you to learn more about clinical trials. Without clinical research and the help of participants, there can be no treatments, prevention, or cure for Alzheimer's disease.

#Dementia symptoms can be caused by multiple, frequently overlapping diseases. Our research has taken an innovative cross-disease cross-platform approach. Want to know more? Our Foundational Study methods papers are linked here: bit.ly/3GzJ8dR #alzheimersawarenessmonth

Per a report from Alzheimer Society, there are at least 28,000 people in Canada living with #youngonsetdementia. There are likely many more. Diagnosis of this disorder at an earlier stage of life than is typical presents many complexities. More here: bit.ly/3kgHBSq

Are you an #alzheimers disease researcher? Our Foundational Study included a deep characterization of 126 AD/MCI #studyparticipants. These baseline data, and equivalent data on our four other disease cohorts, are available through braincode.ca

#ArtificialIntelligence will have an increasingly important role to play in predicting health issues in primary care and guiding capacity planning across #healthsystems. Our new study examines signs and symptoms of #dementia in EMRs for predictive ability. bit.ly/3D9rn48

Check out this new publication by ONDRI investigators and collaborators!

ONDRI Aim 4 new publication alert! Congratulations to the whole team including partnering organizations.

Excited to see this The ONDRI Study publication in press. Well done, team!

Through the The ONDRI Study, Dana Broberg, a PhD student at Western University, is using structural imaging and diffusion imaging to determine whether damage to white matter brain tissue is linked to cognitive impairment. 🧠 cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53357.html?f…

An innovative new 👁️ ONDRI paper by Heidi Riek Douglas Munoz et al connects #eye tracking measures to deficits in #neuropsychological domains and to measures of several #neurodegenerative diseases. We explain more and link to this paper here: bit.ly/3kzEaXD Neuroscience at Queen's University

Exciting new ONDRI study co-led by Kyle Weber & Beth Godkin UWaterloo Kinesiology and Health Sciences on the limitations of wrist #accelerometry output for measuring free-living walking and the need for a multi-device approach for #olderadults and those living with NDD’s: bit.ly/3mZJYKy #wearables

Riek et al. report that oculomotor parameters derived from pro/anti-saccade assessment in 391 #neurodegenerative disease patients load on four factors corresponding to distinct brain processes and correlate differentially to cognitive domains. bit.ly/3JSDC92

Happening today!

Don’t forget to tune into the TDRA-Alzheimer Society TO webinar this Wednesday (April 19) at 12pm ET. Dr. Carmela Tartaglia (CarmelaTartaglia) of University Health Network & Tanz Centre at University of Toronto will discuss 2 studies that examine how frontotemporal syndromes progress over time. Details: bit.ly/3zC5vMz