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Studies recruiting participants:

Advancing Research and Treatment for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL)

Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) is the neuropathological term for a collection of rare neurodegenerative diseases that correspond to four main overlapping clinical syndromes: frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBS) and pr

Recruiting
Principal Investigator 
Ian R.A. Mackenzie
Body Locations and Systems 
Neurologic Diseases
Area 
Vancouver
Age 
18-85

Closed for recruitment:

Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trial: An Opportunity to Prevent Dementia. A Study of Potential Disease Modifying Treatments in Individuals at…

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, biomarker and cognitive efficacy of gantenerumab and solanezumab in subjects who are known to have an Alzheimer's disease-causing mutation by determining if treatment with the study drug improves cognitive outcomes and disease-relat

Closed for Recruitment
Principal Investigator 
Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung
Body Locations and Systems 
Alzheimer's Disease, Neurologic Diseases, Dementia
Area 
Vancouver
Age 
18-80

Cognitive Brain Training in Older Adults

The investigators will conduct a 8-week proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial to provide preliminary evidence of efficacy of Fit Brains (Rosetta Stone Canada) training -- a mobile cognitive training program -- on cognitive and brain plasticity in older adults.

Closed for Recruitment
Principal Investigator 
Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Body Locations and Systems 
Neurologic Diseases
Area 
Vancouver
Age 
65-85