2ND ANNUAL
PERFORM CENTRE
RESEARCH CONFERENCE
LIFESTYLE INFLUENCES
ON HEALTH:
NUTRITION, SLEEP AND ACTIVTY
May 15, 2015
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
LA PRÉVENTIO N AU CŒU R D’ U NE M EI L L EU RE S A NTÉ
BET TER HEALTH THRO U G H P RE V ENTI O N
WELCOME TO THE PERFORM CENTRE’S
SECOND ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
MORNING SESSIONS
7:45-8:30
Registration and light breakfast
Foyer of Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
8:30-8:35
Opening 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
8:40-9:25
Dr. 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 PROGRAM
AFTERNOON SESSION
Session 3
1:55-2:00
Chair: 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”
3:30-4:00
Round table discussion (open floor for additional questions with all
speakers)
4:00-4:30
Presentation of the Ed Whitlock Award and PERFORM PostDoctoral 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.
INVITED SPEAKERS
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.
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 internetbroadcasted 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 Neuroregulatory 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
PERFORM Research Members
Mr. Christian Durand
Ms. Wendy Kunin
Ms. Marion Lowe
Mr. James Seale
Chair: Dr. Karen Li
Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
Dr. Lisa Kakinami
Dr. Mathieu Roy
Dr. Sylvia Santosa
Dr. Jason Steffener
PERFORM Doctoral Student Representative: Dmitri Sitnikov
PERFORM Planning Team
Mr. Axel Bergman
Ms. Natalie Burnett
Ms. Laura Campanelli
Ms. Loredana Carbone
Ms. Deborah Cross
Ms. Gabriella Conte
Mr. Douglas Chananda
Ms. Molly Dodds
Mr. Kevin Hammill
Ms. Hana MacDougall
Mr. Sriram Narayanan
Ms. Divya Sequeira
Mr. Alex Smith