Serge Gauthier /newsroom/taxonomy/term/10043/all en Experts: World Alzheimer Report 2024 /newsroom/channels/news/experts-world-alzheimer-report-2024-359775 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html -->A new edition of World Alzheimer Report, to be published Sept. 20, 2024, will take a deep dive into how perceptions of dementia have changed over the past five years. It builds on a <a href="https://www.alzint.org/resource/world-alzheimer-report-2019/">2019 report</a> that found one in four people believed nothing could be done to prevent dementia, while evidence suggests 40 per cent of cases could be delayed or prevented by addressing modifiable risk factors.</p> Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:48:58 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314635 at /newsroom Not being aware of memory problems predicts onset of Alzheimer’s disease /newsroom/channels/news/not-being-aware-memory-problems-predicts-onset-alzheimers-disease-285116 <p>Doctors who work with individuals at risk of developing dementia have long suspected that patients who do not realize they experience memory problems are at greater risk of seeing their condition worsen in a short time frame, a suspicion that now has been confirmed by a team of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ clinician scientists.</p> Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:05 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 32964 at /newsroom McGill researchers contribute to three of 10 ‘discoveries of year’ selected by Quebec Science for 2017 /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-contribute-three-10-discoveries-year-selected-quebec-science-2017-283612 <p>Québec Science magazine has selected its <a href="http://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/10-decouvertes-2017/decouverte2017#votez_maintenant">10 Discoveries of the Year</a> for 2017, including three involving McGill researchers. The annual list has highlighted top scientific research from across Quebec for the past 25 years, and McGill has been cited more than any other institution during that quarter-century.</p> <p>Here are the selected discoveries involving McGill scientists for the past year:</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:20:56 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 32816 at /newsroom Serge G Gauthier /newsroom/serge-g-gauthier Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23518 at /newsroom