TVA Nouvelles – “Le sommeil pourrait prédire l’évolution de la maladie d’Alzheimer” January 29, 2025 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve appeared in a national TV news segment on TVA Nouvelles, interviewed by Mario Dumont on the link between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. |
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Radio QUB – “Alzheimer : la qualité du sommeil pourrait jouer gros!” January 29, 2025 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve was interviewed by Richard Martineau on Qub Radio about modifiable risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease. This 10-minute interview was broadcast in the Montreal area and can also be listened to online here. |
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Le Devoir – “Le fait de mal dormir augmenterait le risque de développer l’Alzheimer” January 28, 2025 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve was interviewed about her lab’s study of how poor sleep contributes to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in the regional newspaper Le Devoir. |
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98.5 FM Montreal – “Les défis à venir face à la maladie d’Alzheimer” January 9, 2025 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve was interviewed by Élisabeth Crête on the late-afternoon radio show Le Quebec maintenant. Dr. Villeneuve shared her expertise on the modifiable risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease, in the context of the expected doubling of the number of Quebecers living with a neurodegenerative disease by year 2050. The segment can be listened to online here. |
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Le Devoir – “Découverte d’un signe avant-coureur de l’alzheimer” September 18, 2024 Jonathan Gallego-Rudolf’s publication in Nature Neuroscience was covered by many online and traditional media outlets, including the regional newspaper Le Devoir. This news article was one of the most widely read on Le Devoir‘s site for multiple days. [Papers] |
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CTV News Montreal – “Here’s why Alzheimer’s affects more women than men” March 17, 2024 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve was interviewed by CTV News on why Alzheimer’s disease affects more women than men. This TV segment can be watched online here. |
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ICI Radio-Canada Télé – “De nouveaux médicaments pour ralentir la progression de l’alzheimer” September 21, 2023 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve and the PREVENT-AD study were featured on the evening TV news program Le téléjournal avec Patrice Roy, on ICI Radio-Canada Télé. The episode can be watched online here. |
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ICI Radio-Canada RDI – La période de questions August 29, 2023 Due to popular demand, Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve and Dr. Judes Poirier were invited back to the TV studios of CBC/Radio-Canada. They answered questions from the public about Alzheimer’s disease on the live call-in show La période de questions. |
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ICI Radio-Canada RDI – La période de questions July 25, 2023 In an hour-long live TV segment, Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve and Dr. Judes Poirier were interviewed in-studio by Véronique Darveau and answered questions from the public about Alzheimer’s disease and recent drug developments. |
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TVA Nouvelles – “Alzheimer: l’autorisation d’un 2e traitement novateur approche aux États-Unis” July 17, 2023 TVA Nouvelles visited the StoP-AD Centre and interviewed Director Sylvia Villeneuve on the early detection of Alzheimer’s and the latest developments in anti-amyloid antibody treatment. |
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Health Canada and Brain Canada press releases May 24, 2023 A Brain Canada Platform Support Grant award to Dr. Villeneuve was announced to the media by Health Canada and by Brain Canada. |
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Fellow Feature: Ting Qiu March 9, 2023 Ting Qiu was interviewed about her PhD research, as part of a series profiling Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) fellows. |
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Alzforum September 8, 2022 Villeneuve lab post-doc Cherie Strikwerda-Brown’s latest research, recently presented at AAIC 2022 and published in JAMA Neurology, was featured in a news article on the Alzheimer Research Forum website. [Papers] [Presentations] |
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ICI Radio-Canada Télé – Découverte October 6, 2019 The Canadian television series Découverte featured Dr. Villeneuve and the work of the PREVENT-AD research group in an episode about Alzheimer’s disease. This episode aired on ICI Radio-Canada Télé and can be watched online here. |
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Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform – “A journey to open data” September 23, 2019 The CONP website featured a news article about PREVENT-AD, the first dataset to be made available on the CONP data portal. |
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Radio-Canada – “La maladie d’Alzheimer et les liens familiaux” March 13, 2018 Dr. Villeneuve was in the studio with Martine Blanchard at Radio-Canada for an interview about the genetic component of Alzheimer’s disease, featured on the program L’heure de pointe – Acadie. |
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Alzforum – “Parental Age of Onset Helps Predict Amyloid Accumulation in Sporadic AD, Too” March 7, 2018 Alzforum’s news article highlighted the Villeneuve Lab’s recent paper about proximity to parental symptom onset and amyloid-β burden in Alzheimer’s disease, and features the paper in their “recommended reading.” |
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TVA Nouvelles – “Alzheimer: des risques élevés si les parents ont été touchés” February 26, 2018 In this television segment, Dr. Villeneuve is interviewed about the genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease. |
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Journal Metro – “L’Alzheimer lié au mauvais cholestérol” January 31, 2017 Dr. Villeneuve is interviewed by Andréanne Moreau on the link between LDL Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease. |
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Radio-Canada – “La détection précoce de l’Alzheimer : Entrevue avec Sylvia Villeneuve” January 24, 2017 Dr. Villeneuve is interviewed about early detection of Alzheimer’s disease on Radio-Canada’s “Les éclaireurs”, hosted by Sophie-Andrée Blondin. |
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CTV News – “Looking to Local Researchers for a Cure to Alzheimer’s” September 21, 2016 In this CTV news report relating to World Alzheimer’s Day, lab member Jake Vogel speaks about the current state of Alzheimer’s research at 0:55 in the video! |
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Montréal Gazette – “Young Montrealers targeted in new campaign to raise money for Alzheimer’s research” September 19, 2016 Jake Vogel is quoted in this article describing a new fundraising campaign that aims to target young donors. The program is called Montreal Alzheimer’s Research for a Cure (MARC) and is a joint project between the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Jewish General Hospital. |
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Alzforum – “Amyloid and Neurodegeneration Have Different Underlying Genetics” September 2, 2016 The Villeneuve Lab is mentioned in this review of the 2016 AAIC. Jake Vogel’s presentation on genetic associations with brain atrophy is outlined in the article. |
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Andrew Carter Mornings (Radio) August 1, 2016 Dr. Villeneuve is interviewed by Andrew Carter on CJAD. She outlines the current state of Alzheimer’s research, and also explains a bit of the Villeneuve Lab’s current research with the PREVENT-AD group. |
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Le journal de Montréal – “Tout oublier, même sa propre famille” April 22, 2016 Dr. Villeneuve is quoted in this article on Alzheimer’s disease and memory. |
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Alzforum – “Synergistic effect of β-amyloid and neurodegeneration on cognitive decline in clinically normal individuals” September 27, 2014 Dr. Villeneuve comments on a new study from Harvard. |
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Alzforum – “References and Thresholds – Amyloid Imaging Protocols Debated at AAIC” July 24, 2014
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Alzforum – “HAI — Aβ: The First in Alzheimer’s Cascade, or Just Another Player?” February 6, 2013
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