2ND ANNUALPERFORM CENTRERESEARCH CONFERENCE
LIFESTYLE INFLUENCES ON HEALTH: NUTRITION, SLEEP AND ACTIVTY
May 15, 2015Oscar Peterson Concert HallConcordia University Montreal, Canada
LA PRÉVENTION AU CŒUR D’UNE MEILLEURE SANTÉ
BET TER HEALTH THROUGH PREVENTION
Prevention is now seen by society as one of the best ways to ensure long, happy and productive lives as well as meet the financial challenges associated with an aging population. However, the science of prevention is an emerging field of investigation. As scientists and academics committed to preventive health, we have the opportunity to make a real difference through our research.
I see conferences such as this as unique opportunities to work together and learn from the best scientists so that we can deepen our collective knowledge and create new networks that will further advance discoveries in disease prevention. This can only happen through a transdisciplinary approach to better understand how individual differences and lifestyle choices influence health, which in turn can further the development of new interventions.
This year’s scientific program reflects this transdisciplinary approach, as we will learn how to foster healthy cognition, the cornerstone of independence for older adults. Technology advancement in brain imaging and epidemiologic evidence on brain and cognitive reserve help us to understand how to prevent age-related cognitive decline. Moreover, we will hear about novel social programs that have positive effects on the cognitive and physical health of our senior population.
A comprehensive prevention approach also requires that we better understand the complex nature of chronic conditions like obesity. Beyond potentially leading to fatal heart disease and other physical ailments, we will learn more today on how being overweight is associated with the onset of dementia and other brain diseases. But we know that exercise and proper diet is only part of the equation of a balanced lifestyle. Understanding how we sleep is also a key element in unlocking the factors that lead to mental and physical impairments which negatively impact our lives.
This event is made possible through the generous support of Concordia University, our valued partner organizations and the hard work of the PERFORM Centre’s dedicated staff. I would like to thank them for making this day a success. I would also like to thank all the invited speakers for being with us today, and express special thanks to Dr. Karen Li who chaired the scientific committee that brought to us this outstanding scientific program.
I wish you all a fantastic day of discovery!
Louis Bherer
Scientific Director, PERFORM Centre
WELCOME TO THE PERFORM CENTRE’S SECOND ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMORNING SESSIONS
7:45-8:30Registration and light breakfast Foyer of Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
8:30-8:35Opening of conference, Dr. Louis Bherer, Scientific Director, PERFORM Centre
Welcome remarks, Dr. Graham Carr, VP Research and Graduate Studies
Session 1
8:35-8:40 Chair: Dr. Jason Steffener Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
8:40-9:25Dr. Yaakov Stern, Columbia University “Brain and Cognitive Reserve”
9:25-10:10 Dr. Michelle Carlson, Johns Hopkins University
“Older adult volunteering as a path toward healthy aging: Findings from Baltimore Experience Corps Trial”
10:10-10:50 Coffee break for all registrants Loyola Chapel
Viewing of scientific posters* and Scientific Poster Competition: presentations by students and judging
Session 2
10:50-10:55 Chair: Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
10:55-11:40 Dr. Eus van Someren, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
“Causes and consequences of fragmented sleep in chronic insomnia”
11:40-12:25 Dr. Kristen Knutson, University of Chicago
“Impact of inadequate sleep on metabolism: a review of experimental and observational evidence”
12:25-12:30 Provost’s address, Dr. Benoit Bacon
12:30-1:55 Lunch for all registrants Loyola Chapel
Viewing of scientific posters* and Scientific Poster Competition: presentations by students and judging
*Optional tour of PERFORM available during the breaks. Signup required morning of the conference.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMAFTERNOON SESSION
Session 3
1:55-2:00Chair: Dr. Sylvia Santosa Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
2:00-2:45 Dr. Deborah Gustafson, University of Gothenburg
“Adiposity, Metabolic Factors and Brain Health”
2:45-3:30 Dr. Michael Jensen, Mayo Clinic
“The Pathophysiology of Obesity and its Related Disorders”
3:30-4:00Round table discussion (open floor for additional questions with all speakers)
4:00-4:30Presentation of the Ed Whitlock Award and PERFORM Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award in Preventative Health Research Presentation of Scientific Poster Competition Awards
Closing remarks
4:30-5:30 Refreshments Foyer of Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREDITS:Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP) members can obtain up to 5 credits.
Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec members can obtain up to 9 credits.
Dr. Yaakov Stern is professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, as well as the Taub Institute for the Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Stern is Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Department of Neurology and directs the post-doctoral training program “Neuropsychology and Cognition in Aging.” Dr. Stern’s research focuses on cognition in normal aging and in diseases of aging, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. One strong focus of his current research program is investigating the neural basis of cognitive reserve. This concept addresses the observation that some individuals show more cognitive deficit than others in the face of brain insult. He is also conducting a large scale imaging study to identify unique neural networks underlying the major cognitive abilities affected by aging. In addition he is directing cognitive intervention studies in healthy individuals, and a natural history study of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Stern’s research approach includes classic neuropsychological and cognitive experimental techniques, with a strong focus on functional imaging. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers, numerous chapters, and edited a book on cognitive reserve.
Dr. Michelle Carlson leads observational and randomized controlled trial research to evaluate both environmental and pharmacologic preventive interventions of cognitive decline and dementia risk. She serves as Johns Hopkins site PI of the national Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Dr. Carlson has 10 years of experience in leading large-scale clinical trials, having served as the PI of the Johns Hopkins site of the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEMS) randomized, controlled trial (RCT), and as leader of a Project on the P01-funded Baltimore Experience Corps Trial (BECT) evaluating the impact of high-intensity volunteer service on older adults’ cognitive, brain, and physical functions. Within this randomized, controlled trial, Dr. Carlson conducted a nested Brain Health Study (BHS) to evaluate the mechanisms through which Experience Corps impacts older adults’ health using neuroimaging biomarkers, and accelerometry. Dr. Carlson is using wearable devices to objectively link patterns of lifestyle activity to cognitive and brain health. Through this work, Dr. Carlson seeks to define how socially and cognitively enriching activity in daily life helps to buffer the brain and delay dementias of aging, particularly in underserved populations at elevated risk for health disparities.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr. Eus J.W. van Someren was trained in physics, psychophysiology and neuropsychology and received a cum laude PhD in neurobiology from the faculty of medicine. He is Head of the Department Sleep and Cognition at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and is Professor of Neurophysiology at the VU University, Amsterdam. He received prestigious grants including the NWO-VIDI and VICI. His ±200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals including NJEM, JAMA, Nature, Neuroscience, Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychological Bulletin and PNAS have been widely cited (H-index 41). His expertise covers sleep, circadian rhythms, cognition, aging, thermoregulation, imaging and acquisition and analysis of physiological and behavioral time-series. He recently founded a Sleep Registry to obtain a database of sleep phenotypes of many volunteers that can donate subjective and performance data every once in a while through internet. He is co-founder of the European Insomnia Network and member of the Insomnia Genetics Consortium. These are all large-scale efforts to accelerate progress in the understanding of risk factors, genetic predispositions and brain mechanisms involved in sleep and its disturbances. His informal and easy manner and infectious enthusiasm for sleep and cognitive neuroscience make him a frequently invited speaker for lay, neuroscience and medical audiences and include an internet-broadcasted TED-X lecture.
Dr. Kristen Knutson received her PhD in biomedical anthropology from the University at Albany, SUNY and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Chicago. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Chicago. She is also a member of the Sleep, Metabolism and Health Center. As a biomedical anthropologist, she is interested in how sociocultural factors intersect with sleep physiology to impact human health. Her research focuses on the association between sleep and cardiometabolic health, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Her previous research included analyzing sleep and health among a nationally representative study of adolescents in the U.S. (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) as well as an epidemiologic study of sleep (CARDIA), a diabetes survey study, a cross-cultural study, and a study of sleep in Haiti. Moving forward, her research will examine whether sleep partially mediates socioeconomic and/or racial/ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic diseases and whether intervention to improve sleep could help to improve cardiometabolic function.
Dr. Deborah Gustafson is a Professor at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Section for NeuroEpidemiology. She is Adjunct at the University of Gothenburg, Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit, in Sweden. Dr. Gustafson was the first to report on a relationship between overweight and risk of Alzheimer’s disease based on population studies in Sweden. She continues to explore potential mechanisms of adipose tissue, as well as vascular and metabolic factors, in relationship to mental disorders and brain structure in epidemiologic studies of those with conditions that may predispose them to aging-related mental disorders. She has a global research focus and collaborates with research teams in Europe and South America. In New York City, she is Co-PI of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a multi-center cohort study in the US. In these studies, she is exploring aging in HIV as well as the role of overweight and obesity, adipose tissue hormones, and genetic susceptibility in relation to a variety of outcomes including: cognition, dementia and AD, and depression. Deborah is the recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), the European Union, and the Swedish Research Council. Dr. Gustafson has over 100 peer-reviewed or invited publications. She is an invited speaker at international meetings on the topics of adiposity, vascular factors, and prevention of dementia and other mental disorders in the elderly. Deborah received her educational training from the University of Minnesota and held an NIH postdoctoral fellowship.
Dr. Michael D. Jensen, M.D. holds the Tomas J. Watson, Jr. Professorship in Honor of Dr. Robert L. Frye at the Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN. He is the Director of the Department of Medicine Obesity Treatment Research Program at Mayo Clinic. His clinical interests are primarily focused on obesity and diabetes. Dr. Jensen’s research involves the study of obesity, body fat distribution, and fatty acid/energy metabolism, focusing specifically on the effects of obesity and body-fat distribution on health and on the determinants of body fat distribution. His studies have identified the relative contributions of different fat depots to lipid fuel metabolism, including the role of intra-abdominal fat. He received a MERIT award from NIH to continue his studies in this area and has been funded for 26 consecutive years. He has served on NIH, Mayo and foundation scientific review panels and has contributed to professional associations both by committee work and in elected office. Dr. Jensen has published more than 220 original research articles, together with over 50 invited papers and book chapters. He has served as co-chair of the NHLBI Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults.
2015 PERFORM POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Dr. Maryse Fortin graduated from Concordia University in the Athletic Therapy/Exercise Science program in 2008. As a certified Athletic Therapist, she then opened her sports medicine clinic in Montreal, and worked with a great variety of athletes from all disciplines and levels of competition for 3 years. During that period, Dr. Fortin also worked in a breast cancer center, Ville-Marie Women’s Fitness and Wellness Center, where she evaluated and treated patients pre- and post-surgery. Dr. Fortin received her PhD in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Alberta in 2013. Her PhD work focused on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) measurement of paraspinal muscle degenerative changes (e.g. asymmetry, atrophy, fatty infiltration) in relation to painful conditions of the lumbar spine. Dr. Fortin also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and worked with a group of orthopedic spine surgeons, where she further explored and developed novel three-dimensional MRI measures of spinal cord compression and cervical muscle morphology in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
Dr. Fortin’s research is primarily focused on the development of new MRI measures of spine degeneration in order to improve the diagnostic value of medical imaging and advance current knowledge in the epidemiology, prognosis, and treatment of cervical and low back pain. Her primary goals as a researcher are to improve patients’ quality of life by contributing to the understanding, diagnosis, and management of common spinal disorders.
THE ED WHITLOCK AWARD
Ed Whitlock is passionate about long distance running and for the last 20 years has consistently broken every long distance record in his age group. He is the only living person who at 70 was able to run a marathon in under three hours and has repeated the feat a few times since. Now at 84 years old, every time Ed registers for a race there is a pretty good chance that he will be breaking yet another record. As a recognized master athlete, Ed would like to contribute to research efforts that explore better strategies to extend the quality of life of seniors. Ed is keen on supporting preventive health research by helping promising students. This award is granted to either a masters or doctoral student at Concordia University whose research interest is primarily in preventative health.
WINNER OF THE ED WHITLOCK AWARD
Jessica Murphy received a BSc and MSc in nutritional science from McGill University, and is currently a graduate student in Concordia’s Department of Exercise Science. She is conducting her research under the supervision of Dr. Sylvia Santosa within PERFORM’s Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory. Her graduate work will investigate whether the period of obesity development (childhood-onset versus adult-onset) influences the metabolic and cellular responses to a lifestyle weight loss protocol.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS* Students qualifying for award competition
1. Revisiting the Sport Personology Debate: A Canonical Variate Analysis of Personal Traits and Physical Activity Interests James Gavin, Matthew Keough, Madeleine Mcbreaty, Michael Abravanel, Tatiana Moudrakovski
2. Psychosocial Factors Affecting Adolescents’ Sustained Engagement in Physical Activity James Gavin, Madeleine Mcbreaty, Kit Malo, Michael Bravanel, Tatiana Moudrakovski
3. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds-Within and Between-Person Effects of Physical Activity on Cognition Kristina Kowalski*, Stuart MacDonald, Patti-Jean Naylor, Holly Tuokko, Ryan Rhodes
4. Targeted LC-MS Metabolomic Approach for Absolute Quantitation of Neuro-regulatory Metabolites in Peripheral Fluids for an Assessment of Endocrine Homeostasis in Humans Dmitri Sitnikov*, Dajana Vuckovic
5. Exercise and Orthotic Therapy to Improve Foot Functions and Gait Performance for the Patient with Plantar Fasciitis Eda Çinar*, Fatma Uygur, Şeyda Celenay Toprak
6. The Impact of Feeling Close to a Future Body Image on Women’s Health Behaviour Intentions Meghan E. Campbell*, Lisa Mask, Fushia M. Sirois
7. Frequency-Specific 10Hz Electrical Stimulation Causes Longer Reaction Times in a Tone Discrimination Task Used in a Postural Dual-Task Pradigm Justin Dionne*, Richard Courtemanche
8. Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Heart Rate Recovery and Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Post Acute Coronary Syndrome Maxime Boidin*, Mathieu Gayda, Rénia Amoussou, Doug Hayami, Martin Juneau, Anil Nigam
9. The Efficacy of an Exercise Intervention on Depressive Symptoms in Asthma Patients Mélanie Béland*, Kim L. Lavoie, Simon Bacon, Chantal Daigneault
10. Impact of a Three-Month Physical Exercise Program on Executive Functions and Mobility in Frail and Non-Frail Older Adults Ramzi Houdeib*, David Predovan, Francis Langlois, Louis Bherer
11. Fair Play? Inequity in Opportunities for Active Play Across Elementary Schools Caroline Fitzpatrick*, Tracie A. Barnett
12. Organization of Functional Hubs in Healthy Human Brain Kangjoo Lee*, Jean-Marc Lina, Christophe Grova
13. Comparison of the Spatial Resolution and Crosstalk of Inverse Operators in EEG and MEG Tanguay Hedrich*, Jean-Marc Lina, Giovanni Pellegrino, Eliane Kobayashi, Christophe Grova
14. Individual Differences in Proactive and Reactive Control Processes in Bilinguals Alexandre Chauvin*, Natalie Philips
15. The Impact of Cognitive Training on Brain Electrophysiology and Divided Attention in Healthy Older Adults F. Al-Yawer*, N. Phillips, C. Deboysson, S. Mellah, S. Belleville
16. Bilingual Speech Perception in Noise; An Electrophysiological Investigation of Semantic Context Use in the Native and Non-Native Language Alexandra Covey*, Natalie Phillips
17. Diffuse Optical Tomography Using Optimal Optode Montage Alexis Machado*, Odile Marcotte, Giovanni Pellegrino, Jean-marc Lina, Eliane Kobayashi, Christophe Grove
18. Cognitive Compensation in the Context of an Unpredictable Platform Perturbation Halina Bruce*, Gifty Asare, Ioannis Makris, Daniel Aponte, Nancy St-Onge, Karen Z. H. Li
19. Age-Related Hearing Loss and Gait Adaptations: Early Evidence for Postural Prioritization in the Elderly Victoria Nieborowska*, S-T Lau, A. Novak, J. Campos, M.K. Pichora-Fuller, K. Z. H. Li
20. Understanding Age-Related Differences in Backward Inhibition through Proactive and Reactive Control Processes Kiran K. Vadaga, Steve Cicione, Karen Z. H. Li
21. Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of the Cervical Spine Extensor Muscles : A Pilot Study Maryse Fortin*, Octavian Dobrescu, Michael Weber
22. Effects of a Stationary Bicycle Training Regimen in People with Parkinson’s Disease A. Nadeau*, O. Lungu, C. Dushesne, M. E. Robillard, A. Bore, F. Bobeuf, A. L. Lafontaine, F. Gheysen, L. Bherer, J. Doyon
23. The Impact of Skeletal Muscle Aging on Mitochondrial Morphology: A Quantitative Transmission Electron Microscopy Study Jean-Philippe Leduc-Gaudet*, Martin Picard, Felix St-Jean Pelletier, Nicolas Sgarioto, Marie-Joëlle Auger, Joanne Vallée, Richard Robitaille, David H St-Pierre, Gilles Gouspillou
24. White Matter Correlates of Motor Sequence Learning and Consolidation in Young and Older Adults Catherine Vien*, Arnaud Boré, Ovidiu Lungu, Stuart Fogel, Julien Doyon
25. Investigation of the Impacts of Aging and Physical Activity Levels on Skeletal Muscle Phenotype in Men Félix St-Jean Pelletier*, C. H. Pion, F. Lemieux, J.P. Leduc-Gaudet, S. Barbat-Artigas, N. Sgarioto, P. Gaudreau, R. T. Hepple, S. Chevalier, M. Belanger, J. A. Marias, M. Aubertin-Leheudre, G. Gouspillou
26. Pain Interferes with a Cognitive Task-Evidence for Gender Effects in the Tradeoff between Pain and Task Processing Vanessa Tabry*, Philippe Brouillard, Maxime Lussier, Pierre Rainville, Louis Bherer, Mathieu Roy
27. An Examination of the Effects of Physician Counseling and Other Psychological Factors on Physical Activity Levels During Pregnancy Michelle Workun-Hill*, Deborah Da Costa, Lindsay Duncan
28. Effects of Moderate Exercise and Dissonant Music on Acute Salivary Cortisol and α-Amylase Fluctuations Azadeh Ghassemi*, Alfredo Cosentino, Marylen Youssef, Tanya Babiuk-Henry, Dmitri Sitnikov, Dajana Vuckovic, Peter J. Darlington
29. Modulation of Helper T Cells by β2-Andrenergic Receptor Ligands Carvajal Gonczi*, M. Catalina, Mahdieh Shafiei Tabatabaei, Peter J. Darlington
30. Regulation of Glycogen in Immune Cells by Activation and Hormone Signals Mahdieh Shafiei Tabatabaei*, M. Catalina, Carvajal Gonczi, Peter J. Darlington
31. Thyroid Hormone Mediation of T Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis; Implications for Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism Tanya Babiuk-Henry*, Raymond You, Peter J. Darlington
32. Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Physical Exercise: How Self-Prophecy Contributes to Consumer Well-Being Kimberly Duval*, Onur Bodur, Bianca Grohmann
33. A Cluster RCT Evaluating the Effect of Iodized Salt on Infant Development in Amhara Region of Ethiopia Husein Mohammed*, Grace S Marquis, Frances Aboud, Karim Bougma, Aregash Samuel
34. Vitamin D Status and Functional Health Outcomes : A Randomized Vitamin D Dose-Response Trial in 2-8 Year Olds Neil R. Brett*, Paula Lavery, Catherine A. Vanstone, Jonathon Maguire, Frank Rauch, Hope A. Weiler
35. Functional Brain Changes Associated with Weight Loss S. Neseliler*, W. Hu, M. Zacchia, K. Larcher, S. Scala, M. Lamarche, S. Stotland, M. Laroque, E. Marliss, A. Dagher
36. Dietary Habits and Lifestyle of Mothers with Preeclampsia : A Case Control Study from Serbia Marija Djekic-Ivankovic*, Hope Weiler, Jovana Kaludjerovic, Vesna Aleksic-Velickovic, Ljuba Mandic, Maria Gilbetic
37. Vitamin D Status in Mothers with Preeclampsia and their Infants at Delivery: A Case Control Study from Serbia, a Country without Vitamin D Fortification Policy Marija Djekic-Ivankovic*, Hope Weiler, Glenville Jones, Martin Kaufmann, Jovana Kaludjerovic, Vesna Aleksic-Velickovic, Ljuba Mandic, Maria Gilbetic
38. Efficacy of Dual-Hormone Artificial Pancreas to Alleviate the Carbohydrate Counting Burden in Type 1 Diabetes Randomized Crossover Trial Veronique Gingras, Remi Rabas-Lhoref, Virginie Messier, Martin Ladouceur, Laurent Legault, Ahmad Haidar
39. The Effects of the Type of Protein Supplementation Combined with Power Training on Muscle Function and Functional Capacity in Elderly Men M. D. Dulac, C. H. Pion, M. Belanger, J. A. Morais, G. Gouspillou, P. Gaudreau, S. Chevalier, M. Aubertin-Leheudre.
40. Trait Mindfulness and Health Behaviours in Pregnant Women Anna Denis*, Deborah Da Costa, Phyllis Zelkowitz
41. Reliability of Youth-and Parent Report of Sleep Duration with Ambulatory Polysomnography Melodee A. Mograss*, Denise Christina Jarrin, Neressa Noel, Jennifer J. McGrath, Evelyn Constantin.
42. The Association between Screen Time and Sleep in Adolescents Erin O’Loughlin*, Tracie Barnett, Lisa Kakinami, Vanessa Brunetti, Étienne Pigeon, Dre Yun Jen, Jennifer O’Loughlin
43. Age-Related Changes in Waking EEG Coherent Activity After 24 Hours of Sleep Deprivation Thaïna Rosinvil*, Maxime Fortin, Benjamin Gaudet-Fex, Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault, Jonathan Dubé, Nadia Gosselin, Jean-Marc Lina, Julie Carrier
44. Evaluating Recognition Memory in Children Referred for Suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea Melodee A. Mograss, Evelyn Constantin
45. Brain Structural Abnormalities Associated with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder in Parkinson’s Disease Soufiane Boucetta*, Ali Salimi, Mahsa Dadar, Barabara Jones, D. Louis Collins, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
46. Spindles and Slow Waves Predict Treatment Responses to Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Chronic Primary Insomnia A. Salimi*, B. Hatch, S. Boucetta, M. Mograss, J. O’Byrne, M. Brandewinder, C. Berthomier, J-P. Gouin, T.T.Dang-Vu
47. Sleep Quality and Rest Activity Cycle in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Emilie Chan-Thim*, Zohra Parwanta, Gregory Moullec, Barbara Trutschnigg, Jean Paquet, Véronique Pepin, Marie Dumont
48. Physical Activity and Sleep in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Zohra Parwanta*, Emilie Chan-Thim, Grégory Moullec, Véronique Pepin
49. Turn Off and Turn In: The Influence of Television Viewing and Sleep on Lipid Profiles in Children Despoina Manousaki*, Sanyath Radji, Tracie Barnett, Marie-Eve Mathieu, Katherine Gray-Donald, Mélanie Henderson
50. Reducing Jet Lag : A Case Study of Knowledge Translation Jay A. Olson*
51. L’Effet du Vieillissement sur la Topographie de l’EEG du Sommeil Paradoxal Benjamin Gaudet-Fex*, Véronique Latreille, Marjolaine Lafortune, Thaina Rosinvil, Pierre-Oliver Gaudreault, Maude Bouchard, Jonathan Dubé, Jean-Marc Lina, Jean-François Gagnon, Julie Carrier
52. Chronic Parenting Stress and Negative Mood: The Role of Sleep Disturbances Chelsea da Estrela*, Erin Barker, Jean-Philippe Gouin
53. The Causal Role of NREM2 Sleep in Sequential Motor Memory Consolidation Samuel Laventure*, Stuart Fogel, Geneviève Albouy, Ovidiu Lundu, Catherine Vien, Pénélope Sévigny-Dupont, Julie Carrier, Julien Doyon
THANK YOU! MERCI!Special appreciation and our sincerest gratitude is extended to our generous Awards Sponsors for their recognition of students exhibiting excellence in the PERFORM Scientific Poster Competition.
Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM)
Réseau de recherche en santé cardiométabolique, diabète et obésité
Heart & Stroke Foundation
Alzheimer Society of Montreal
Our thanks to the members of the Scientific Events and Communication Committee for their dedication and hard work in preparing for this inaugural event, and all the PERFORM staff members who went over and above the call of duty to help make this event possible.
PERFORM Staff Members
Mr. Christian DurandMs. Wendy KuninMs. Marion LoweMr. James Seale
PERFORM Research Members
Chair: Dr. Karen LiDr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
Dr. Lisa KakinamiDr. Mathieu RoyDr. Sylvia Santosa
Dr. Jason Steffener
PERFORM Doctoral Student Representative: Dmitri Sitnikov
PERFORM Planning Team
Mr. Axel BergmanMs. Natalie Burnett
Ms. Laura CampanelliMs. Loredana Carbone
Ms. Deborah CrossMs. Gabriella Conte
Mr. Douglas Chananda
Ms. Molly DoddsMr. Kevin Hammill
Ms. Hana MacDougallMr. Sriram Narayanan
Ms. Divya SequeiraMr. Alex Smith
