Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences by Author "Thompson, Cynthia"

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  • Effects of menopause on sleep quality and sleep disorders : Canadian longitudinal study on aging 

    Zolfaghari, Sheida; Yao, Chun; Thompson, Cynthia; Gosselin, Nadia; Desautels, Alex; Dang-Vu, Thien Thanh; Postuma, Ronald B.; Carrier, Julie (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2020-02-29)
    OBJECTIVES:Sleep complaints are common during the menopause transition. However, it is difficult to disentangle changes in sleep related to aging from those directly due to menopause. We compared sleep disorders in 45 to 60-year-old women in a large ...

  • Reduced rapid eye movement sleep in late middle-aged and older apolipoprotein E ɛ4 allele carriers 

    André, Claire; Martineau-Dussault, Marie-Ève; Baril, Andrée-Ann; Marchi, Nicola Andrea; Daneault, Véronique; Lorrain, Dominique; Hudon, Carol; Bastien, Célyne; Petit, Dominique; Thompson, Cynthia; Poirier, Judes; Montplaisir, Jacques-Yves; Gosselin, Nadia; Carrier, Julie (Oxford University Press, 2024-04-18)
    Study Objectives Apolipoprotein E ɛ4 (APOE4) is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In addition, APOE4 carriers may exhibit sleep disturbances, but conflicting results have been reported, such that there is no clear consensus ...

  • REM sleep is associated with the volume of the cholinergic basal forebrain in aMCI individuals 

    André, Claire; Martineau‑Dussault, Marie‑Ève; Daneault, Véronique; Blais, Hélène; Frenette, Sonia; Lorrain, Dominique; Hudon, Carol; Bastien, Célyne; Petit, Dominique; Lafrenière, Alexandre; Thompson, Cynthia; Montplaisir, Jacques-Yves; Gosselin, Nadia; Carrier, Julie (BMC, 2023-09-08)
    Background Rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep highly depends on the activity of cholinergic basal forebrain (BF) neurons and is reduced in Alzheimer’s disease. Here, we investigated the associations between the volume of BF nuclei and REM sleep ...