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Simon Duchesne
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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,...

Simon Duchesne
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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...


Simon Duchesne
Apr 9, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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...

Simon Duchesne
Mar 10, 20212 min read
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...

Simon Duchesne
Mar 6, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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...

olivierpotvin
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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...

olivierpotvin
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20202 min read
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...

Iman Beheshti
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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...

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée
Nov 23, 20201 min read
Something BIG arrived at CERVO research center...
The new imaging center's MRI machine was delivered to CERVO research center on November 23th.

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée
Nov 17, 20202 min read
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...

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée
Nov 11, 20201 min read
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...

Catherine Fontaine-Lavallée
Nov 11, 20201 min read
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...


Simon Duchesne
Nov 4, 20202 min read
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...