/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Alzheimer%27s%20disease%20%28AD%29/rss en /channels/channels/news/experts-alzheimers-disease-283955 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2018/01/ministerial_message-alzheimersawarenessmonthjanuary2018.html">January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month in Canada</a>. McGill and its affiliated institutions have experts in the following areas of Alzheimer’s detection and treatment who are available to comment:</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)) based at the  Jewish General Hospital: <a href="http://www.ccna-ccnv.ca">Website</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Early detection of AD through genetic and cognitive markers</strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">18 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:30:04 +0000 webfull 134184 at /channels /channels/channels/news/new-mechanism-detected-alzheimers-disease-276135 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>By Chris Chipello</em></p> <p>Ď㽶ĘÓƵ researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/picture1.png?itok=b365Op48" width="160" height="133" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">13 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:28:34 +0000 webfull 131899 at /channels /channels/news/alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease-it-takes-two-proteins-tango-260514 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>For years, neuroscientists have puzzled over how two abnormal proteins, called amyloid and tau, accumulate in the brain and damage it to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD). Which one is the driving force behind dementia? The answer: both of them, according to a new study by researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/thinkstockphotos-496291444.jpg?itok=2Uw5pk8v" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:33 +0000 webfull 118364 at /channels