Congratulations to Suzanne Tyas and Colleen Maxwell (Co-PIs) and Emily Rutter (I), on being awarded the Network of Aging Research's Catalyst Grant for their project "The role of social support on the mental health and coping strategies of caregivers to assisted living residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic".
Join us for our next Lab Meeting where we will be discussing a new theory of Alzheimer’s disease as an autoimmune disorder. The new study talks about Alzheimer's as fundamentally a disease of the immune system within the brain.
A short informational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnRfFUwffY
Journal article:https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc2.12283
The Epidemiology of Cognitive Aging and Resilience Research Group is very pleased to congratulate both of our doctoral students, Emily Rutter and Carrie Shorey, who have been recognized with the prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
Emily Rutter's project was titled "The association of functional and structural social support with cognitive change in middle-aged and older adults: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging".
Carrie Shorey's project was titled "Examining the association between chronic stress, inflammation, and cognitive function in aging refugee, immigrant and Canadian-born adults".
Join Carrie Shorey at the interdisciplinary Symposium of Aging Research (SoAR) on April 27th. Carrie's oral presentation is "Do Chronic Conditions Mediate the Association Between Stress-Induced Inflammaging and Cognitive Function? Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging (CLSA)."
Join us for our next Journal Club where we discuss recent studies that found an association between napping and dementia in aging adults.
For the news article: https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/excessive-napping-could-be-a-sign-of-dementia-study-finds-1.5824304
Join us for our next Journal Club where we discuss recent studies that found an association between COVID-19 and persistent cognitive deficits, including the acceleration of Alzheimer’s disease pathology and symptoms.
For the press release from Alzheimer's Association: https://www.alz.org/aaic/releases_2021/covid-19-cognitive-impact.asp
For the news article: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-could-serve-as-a-trojan-horse-for-dementia-and-alzheimer-s-experts-say-1.5568918
Congratulations to Nicole Winch on her successful defence of "The Association Between Multilingualism and Executive Function in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Results from the Baseline Comprehensive Cohort".
Congratulations Anita Iacono on her successful defence of "The Role of Functional Social Isolation in Mediating the Association Between Baseline Depression and Subsequent Executive Function in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Comprehensive Cohort".
Congratulations to Carrie Shorey and John Mielke (Co-PIs) and Suzanne Tyas, Samantha Buttemer, and Shiva Adel (Co-I's) on being awarded the Network of Aging Research's Catalyst Grant for their project "How chronic stress impacts inflammation and cognitive function in aging refugee, immigrant and Canadian-born adults".
Congratulations Rachel Redekop on her successful defence of "Subjective Health as a Predictor of Physical Function in Older Women".