Neurodegenerative Diseases

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CBB Researchers: Neurodegenerative Diseases

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"Emotionally supportive virtual assistant could help people with Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo News, Jesse Hoey, August 14, 2017
"ACT@Home: An emotionall intelligent cognitive assistant to help people with Alzheimer's disease," Computer Science News, Jesse Hoey, June 29, 2017
"Accessing the eye as a window to the brain," Waterloo-Guelph Physics Grad Studies News, Melanie Campbell, July 26, 2016

"Public lecture explains optical principles behind the latest eye-based medical diagnosis," Science News Melanie Campbell, March 3, 2016
"Waterloo pharmacist examines drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease," Pharmacy News, Praveen Nekkar Rao, July 29, 2015
"Early Alzheimer's diagnosis: Imaging the living eye," Research2Reality, Melanie Campbell, May 8, 2015
“Dementia patients may one day get assistance from robot helpers,” CBC News, Jennifer Boger, March 15, 2015
"Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge," Chemistry News, Elizabeth Meiering, August 20, 2014
"GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer's disease earlier," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, James Tung, July 8, 2014
"Waterloo discovers a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart," ScÂience News, David Spafford, April 25, 2014
"Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, April 12, 2013
"An early test for Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo Stories, Melanie Campbell, February 12, 2013
"Early test for Alzheimer's disease may rely on the eyes," Waterloo Stories, Melanie Campbell, January 22, 2013
"Making life easier for those living with Alzheimer's," Waterloo Stories, Jesse Hoey, January 2, 2013

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"Using VR to help seniors exercise," CTV News, Jennifer Boger, February 2, 2018
"Emotional AI and Alzheimer's disease," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"Creature comforts: robotic animals in the car eof dementia patients," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"The complex issue of emotion," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"Smart living: the DIY smart home project," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"Current work to detect the early signs of Alzheimer's disease," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"Amyloid as a biomarker of Alzheimer's disease in the retina," Youtube Lecture, Melanie Campbell, November 17, 2016
"Heather Keller - Kinesiology," Youtube, Heather Keller, November 11, 2016

"CAM Video: Melanie Campbell, using the science of light for early detection of Alzheimer's," Youtube, Melanie Campbell, November 2, 2016
"Socio-emotional alignment for cognitive assistive technologies, NIH distinguished speaker - Dr. Jesse Hoey," Youtube Lecture, Jesse Hoey, October 20, 2015
"Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research," YouTube Lecture, Zoya Leonenko, October 1, 2014

Publications by CBB Researchers

Mahzar Eisapour, Shi Cao, and Jennifer Boger. 2018. Game Design for Users with Constraint: Exergame for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 128-130
Huang, H. Y., Farkhatdinov, I., Arami, A., & Burdet, E. (2017). Modelling neuromuscular function of SCI patients in balancing. In Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II (pp. 355-359). Springer, Cham.
Arami, A., Tagliamonte, N. L., Tamburella, F., Huang, H. Y., Molinari, M., & Burdet, E. (2017, July). A simple tool to measure spasticity in spinal cord injury subjects. In Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2017 International Conference on (pp. 1590-1596). IEEE.
Culik, R. M., Sekhar, A., Nagesh, J., Deol, H., Rumfeldt, J. A., Meiering, E. M., & Kay, L. E. (2018). Effects of maturation on the conformational free-energy landscape of SOD1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(11), E2546-E2555.
Keller, H. H. (2016). Improving food intake in persons living with dementia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1367(1), 3-11.
Morrissey, K., Lazar, A., Boger, J., & Toombs, A. (2017, May). HCIxDementia Workshop: The Role of Technology and Design in Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems(pp. 484-491). ACM.
Mihailidis, A., Qiu, J., Boger, J., & Chang, S. J. I. (2017). Pervasive Computing and Ambient Physiological Monitoring Devices. In Smart Technologies in Healthcare (pp. 26-78). CRC Press.
Chen, M. L., Yao, L., Boger, J., Mercer, K., Thompson, B., & Jiang, N. (2017). Non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for management of chronic central neuropathic pain: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, 7(10), e016002.
Boger, J., Eisapour, M., Domenicucci, L., & Cao, S. (2017). Design of Virtual Reality Exergame to Promote Upper-Body Movement for Older Adults with Dementia. 한국재활복지공학회 학술대회 논문집, 91-94.
König, A., Francis, L. E., Joshi, J., Robillard, J. M., & Hoey, J. (2017). Qualitative study of affective identities in dementia patients for the design of cognitive assistive technologies. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 4, 2055668316685038.
Robillard, J. M., & Hoey, J. (2018). Emotion and Motivation in Cognitive Assistive Technologies for Dementia. Computer, 51(3), 24-34.
Campbell, M. C., Emptage, L., Corapi, F., Redekop, R., Shah, N., Kitor, M., ... & Mackenzie, I. (2017). Amyloid beta deposits in ex vivo retinas correlate with the severity of Alzheimer’s brain pathology. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8), 1255-1255.
Campbell, M. C., Corapi, F., Emptage, L., Redekop, R., Shah, N., Kitor, M., ... & Mackenzie, I. R. (2017). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AMYLOID IN THE RETINA AND A BRAIN-BASED POST-MORTEM DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 13(7), P284-P285.
Sutley, J. K. L., & Rao, P. P. N. (2017). INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF LEVOTHYROXINE AND LIOTHYRONINE ON BETA-AMYLOID AGGREGATION. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 13(7), P626.
Hane, F. T., Lee, B. Y., & Leonenko, Z. (2017). Recent progress in Alzheimer’s disease research, part 1: Pathology. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 57(1), 1-28.
Hane, F. T., Robinson, M., Lee, B. Y., Bai, O., Leonenko, Z., & Albert, M. S. (2017). Recent Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Part 3: Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 57(3), 645-665.
Drolle, E., Negoda, A., Hammond, K., Pavlov, E., & Leonenko, Z. (2017). Changes in lipid membranes may trigger amyloid toxicity in Alzheimer's disease. PloS one, 12(8), e0182194.

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