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August 13, 2019

Diagnosing frontotemporal dementia earlier

It is difficult for doctors to diagnose early frontotemporal dementia, a common cause of early onset dementia. Early symptoms are typically associ...

August 13, 2019

Using Person-Centered Communication to Improve Patient Outcomes and Reduce ‘Reality Shock’

Many of the innovations being developed at Baycrest are brought forth by staff who use their personal and professional experiences to turn an obsta...

July 18, 2019

Baycrest welcomes leading social gerontology researcher

Baycrest is thrilled to welcome a new social gerontology researcher, Dr. Amanda Grenier, as the Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological S...

June 19, 2019

Turning to exercise to reduce the risk of dementia

As Suanne Kelman grows older, she can’t help but compare her ability to remember to her mother’s memory at the same age. Kelman’...

June 17, 2019

Baycrest applauds Government of Canada's announcements for the first national dementia strategy and funding for critical research in the fight to defeat dementia

The federal health minister, alongside co-chairs from Baycrest and the Alzheimer Society of Canada, released a national strategy to guide the count...

May 03, 2019

Electroconvulsive therapy reboots certain brain networks to help depressed individuals, suggest recent findings

Baycrest researchers found that electroconvulsive therapy corrects brain networks associated with learning and thinking impairments. Electroconvul...

March 15, 2019

When to worry about memory loss and what to do about it

Dementia researchers, experts and innovators discuss the latest research on the early detection and prevention of dementia, as well as innovations ...

February 07, 2019

Canadian Institutes of Health Research invests in new brain health and aging research at Baycrest

Three of Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) scientists secured more than $1.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research...

February 06, 2019

Absentmindedness and becoming easily distracted point to earlier warning signs of silent strokes among people at higher risk

Adults who notice that they frequently lose their train of thought or often become sidetracked may in fact be displaying earlier symptoms of cerebr...

January 29, 2019

Is the new Canada Food Guide good for our brain health?

Eating healthy has been shown to help people reduce their dementia risk and retain their thinking and memory skills as they age. With January being...

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