[BIC-announce] BIC Lecture - Prof Sylvia Villeneuve

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

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Dear All:

Our weekly BIC Lecture Series welcomes Prof Sylvia Villeneuve this coming Monday (Dec 07)- @ 1pm, DeGrandpré Auditorium, MNI
"Imaging Amyloid and Tau Proteins in Aging and Dementia”

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Dr. Villeneuve is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Associated Member of the Dept of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. Her team uses multimodal neuroimaging (PET and MRI) to investigate brain changes associated with neurodegeneratives diseases.
Dr. Villeneuve received a PhD in Neuropsychology from the Université de Montréal in 2011. She did a first postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, assessing the interplay between beta-amyloid deposition, vascular diseases and cognition in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease. She did a second postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University where she assessed the predictive value of neurovascular insults, such as deterioration of the blood-brain barrier or reduced cerebral vascular reactivity, to detect early changes associated with amyloid pathology. She just joined in August 2015 the PREVENT-Alzheimer Program at the Douglas (http://www.douglas.qc.ca/page/prevent-alzheimer-home).
Dr. Villeneuve has been a member of the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec since 2009.
More information: : https://sites.google.com/site/villeneuvesylvia/

Selected Publications:
Villeneuve S, Rabinovici G*, Cohn-Sheehy B, Madison C, Ayakta N, Ghosh PM, Madison C, La Joie R, Arthur-Bentil SK, Vogel J, Marks S, Lehmann M, Rosen H, Reed B, Olichney J, DeCarli C, Miller BL, Borys E, Grinberg LT, Jin LW, Seeley WW & Jagust W. Existing PIB Thresholds are Too High: Statistical and Pathological Validation. Brain. 2015;138:2020-2033.
Villeneuve S, Wirth M & La Joie R. Are AD-typical regions the convergence point of multiple pathologies? Front Aging Neurosci. 2015 doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00042
Villeneuve S & Jagust W. Imaging Vascular Disease and Amyloid in the Aging Brain: Implications for Treatment. J Prev Alz Dis 2015;2:64-70.
Villeneuve S, Reed B, Madison C, Wirth M, Kriger S, Marchant N, Mack W, Sanossian N, DeCarli C, Chui H, Weiner M. & Jagust W. Vascular risk and cerebral β-amyloid interact to reduce cortical thickness. Neurology, 2014;83:1-8.
Villeneuve S, Reed B, Wirth M, Madison C, Haase C. Ayakta N., M. Mack W, Sanossian N., DeCarli C, Chui H, Weiner M. & Jagust W. Cortical thickness mediates the impact of β-amyloid on episodic memory. Neurology. 2014;82:761-767.
Wirth M, Villeneuve S, La Joie R, Marks S. & Jagust W. Gene-Environment interactions: Lifetime cognitive activity, APOE genotype, and beta-amyloid burden. 2014 J Neurosci. 2014;34:8612-8617.
Wirth M, Villeneuve S, Madison C, Oh H, Rabinovici G. & Jagust W. Associations between Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and cognition in normal older people. JAMA Neurology. 2013;70:1512-1519

Have a great weekend everyone and see you all Monday!

Sylvain.

Sylvain Baillet, PhD

Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery & Biomedical Engineering
Acting Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI Killam and FRQS Senior Scholar
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
http://mcgill.ca/bic

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