BRAIN HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE

A first step towards a comprehensive model of Alzheimer's disease

Simon Duchesne

Mar 23
2 min

A first step towards a comprehensive model of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease. Therefore, an epidemiologic model of AD can hardly consider every risk factor,...

Ne manquez pas la Journée IA et Imagerie Médicale à Québec le 24 mai 2023

Simon Duchesne

Mar 21
1 min

Ne manquez pas la Journée IA et Imagerie Médicale à Québec le 24 mai 2023

Le CRDM, en collaboration avec le Réseau de Bio-Imagerie du Québec, vous accueillera pour une journée Intelligence Artificielle et...

Simon Duchesne

Aug 28, 2021
2 min

Nothing lazy about a bed rest study

Assiduous readers of this blog (if there are any!)(I don't even think my mother qualifies) will remember our participating in the first...

Simon Duchesne

Jul 15, 2021
2 min

Happy childhood, happy old age?

Photo by Poh Wei Chuen on Unsplash How lifestyle factors of individuals in their mid- to later adulthood contribute to future cognitive...

On the importance of having a good heart

Simon Duchesne

Apr 9, 2021
2 min

On the importance of having a good heart

Today I just though I'd draw your attention to an article ("Vascular Contributions to Neurodegeneration: Protocol of the COMPASS-ND...

Simon Duchesne

Mar 17, 2021
1 min

FOMO: Ne ratez pas TechSantéQc!

J'ai eu le plaisir de pré-enregistrer hier ma présentation sur nos travaux dans le cadre du projet CoDE:AIR, portant sur la prédiction de...

Amyloid beta and white matter hyperintensities collude to freeze gait in Parkinson’s disease

Simon Duchesne

Mar 10, 2021
2 min

Amyloid beta and white matter hyperintensities collude to freeze gait in Parkinson’s disease

This upcoming Saturday 13 March at 9h30 (Eastern Std Time), Mahsa (Dadar) will be presenting her work titled ”WHITE MATTER...

But where does women's (metabolic) advantage go?

Simon Duchesne

Mar 6, 2021
2 min

But where does women's (metabolic) advantage go?

Sex differences play a vital role in human brain structure and physiology. Previous reports have proposed evidence hinting at a metabolic...

Simon Duchesne

Feb 25, 2021
2 min

Space, the current frontier

People might be surprised to find news about space and astronauts in these pages. What can be the link with brain health and aging? Turns...

Simon Duchesne

Feb 24, 2021
1 min

Space, the next frontier

We are very proud and happy to announce our joining the investigator team of the Canadian Wayfinding experiment, led by Dr. Giuseppe...

Nouvelles normes pour la morphologie du cerveau humain en IRM!

olivierpotvin

Feb 18, 2021
1 min

Nouvelles normes pour la morphologie du cerveau humain en IRM!

Notre laboratoire vient de soumettre pour publication NOMIS, un nouvel outil permettant d’évaluer la déviation de la normalité de la...

New MRI morphometric norms of the human brain!

olivierpotvin

Feb 18, 2021
1 min

New MRI morphometric norms of the human brain!

We have recently submitted for publication NOMIS, our new open-access tool, which allows researchers to assess morphometric deviations of...

Simon Duchesne

Jan 12, 2021
1 min

COVID19 et Alzheimer

J'ai eu la chance ce matin de discuter avec Mme Patricia Bitu Tschikudi, de l'émission 6 à 9 sur ICI Radio Canada Première à Winnipeg...

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée

Dec 17, 2020
2 min

Celebrating the End of 2020 at MEDICS!

The willingness to celebrate together, regardless of circumstances, remained strong at MEDICS! The new way of living, a.k.a. socially...

Patch-wise brain age longitudinal reliability

Iman Beheshti

Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Patch-wise brain age longitudinal reliability

Great news from our lab: a new article was published last month in the journal Human Brain Mapping. Congrats to Iman Beheshti as well as...

Something BIG arrived at CERVO research center...

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée

Nov 23, 2020
1 min

Something BIG arrived at CERVO research center...

The new imaging center's MRI machine was delivered to CERVO research center on November 23th.

Analysis and synthesis of medical images using heterogeneous modalities

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée

Nov 17, 2020
2 min

Analysis and synthesis of medical images using heterogeneous modalities

Daniel Gourdeau, PhD student with Prof. Simon Duchesne, is presenting this week his latest work at the Centre de recherche en données...

Meet Our Researchers series from the Alzheimer's Society of Canada : Simon Duchesne

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée

Nov 11, 2020
1 min

Meet Our Researchers series from the Alzheimer's Society of Canada : Simon Duchesne

2-minute portrait of Simon Duchesne and the MEDICS Laboratory by the Alzheimer's Society of Canada. English subtitles available! I gave...

Simon Duchesne at Radio-Canada's program Découverte

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée

Nov 11, 2020
1 min

Simon Duchesne at Radio-Canada's program Découverte

Simon Duchesne participated in a report on Alzheimer's disease (AD) as part of Radio-Canada's program Découverte. The Découverte's...

Reliability assessment of tissue classification algorythms for multi-center and multi-scanner data

Simon Duchesne

Nov 4, 2020
2 min

Reliability assessment of tissue classification algorythms for multi-center and multi-scanner data

Gray and white matter volumes are important imaging markers of pathology and disease progression. Such measures are usually estimated...