/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8259/all en /newsroom/channels/news/experts-alzheimers-disease-283955 <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>. Æ»¹ûÒùÔº 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> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:30:02 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 32845 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-mechanism-detected-alzheimers-disease-276135 <p><em>By Chris Chipello</em></p> <p>Æ»¹ûÒùÔº researchers have discovered a cellular mechanism that may contribute to the breakdown of communication between neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.</p> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:02:42 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32382 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/alzheimers-disease-it-takes-two-proteins-tango-260514 <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> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:20:26 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 25746 at /newsroom