26 results match your criteria: "Centre Integre Universitaire en Sante et Services Sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale[Affiliation]"

Introduction: Modern research teams are re-evaluating conventional methods with the aim of improving the usefulness of knowledge for users, focusing on the role of knowledge users in shaping innovation. In disability field, encouraging participatory research inherently involves diverse perspectives and inclusion, which aligns with the principles of universal accessibility. By actively involving individuals with various backgrounds, abilities, and needs in the research process, we can better understand and address the challenges faced in adopting universal accessibility.

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Aims: The objective of this study is to underline the impact of Gaming Disorder on the clinical evolution of patients with First Episode Psychosis. The specific aims of the study are to determine the prevalence of gaming disorder among those patients and assess the consequences of gaming on their clinical trajectory.

Methods: This is a prospective multicenter cohort study that will enrol 800 patients diagnosed with a first episode psychosis, with a follow-up period of up to 3 years.

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Changes in resting-state functional MRI connectivity during and after transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy adults.

Front Hum Neurosci

July 2023

Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, CERVO Brain Research Centre, Centre intégré universitaire en santé et services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Introduction: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) at rest can influence behaviors. However, its mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study examined the effect of a single session of tDCS over the bilateral DLPFC on resting-state functional connectivity using fMRI (rs-fcMRI) during and after stimulation in healthy adults.

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Background: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) was proposed to identify older adults who complain about their memory but perform within a normal range on standard neuropsychological tests. Persons with SCD are at increased risk of dementia meaning that some SCD individuals experience subthreshold memory decline due to an underlying progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Objective: Our main goal was to determine whether hippocampal volume and APOE4, which represent typical AD markers, predict inter-individual differences in memory performance among SCD individuals and can be used to identify a meaningful clinical subgroup.

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Background: Slowed rates of cognitive decline have been reported in individuals with higher cognitive reserve (CR), but interindividual discrepancies remain unexplained. Few studies have reported a birth cohort effect, favoring later-born individuals, but these studies remain scarce.

Objective: We aimed to predict cognitive decline in older adults using birth cohorts and CR.

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Implementation Determinants of Knowledge Mobilization within a Quebec Municipality to Improve Universal Accessibility.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

November 2022

Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration, Centre Intégré Universitaire en Santé et Services Sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, 525 Boul. Wilfrid-Hamel, Québec, QC G1M 2S8, Canada.

Unlabelled: According to the UN-CRPD, cities must develop action plans about universal accessibility (UA). Operationalization of these plans is complex, and little is known about what municipal employees know about UA.

Aim: The aim is to document implementation determinants of UA within a municipal organization in Quebec, Canada.

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Implementation of a biopsychosocial approach into physiotherapists' practice: a review of systematic reviews to map barriers and facilitators and identify specific behavior change techniques.

Disabil Rehabil

July 2023

School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR), Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM), Centre intégré de services sociaux et de santé du Centre-Sud-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal, Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), Montreal, Canada.

Purpose: Our first objective was to map the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a biopsychosocial approach into physiotherapists' practice within the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Our second objective was to identify the specific behavior change techniques (BCT) that could facilitate this implementation.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a review of systematic reviews to identify barriers and facilitators to the use of a biopsychosocial approach by physiotherapists and we mapped them within the TDF domains.

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Attempts to enhance human memory and learning ability have a long tradition in science. This topic has recently gained substantial attention because of the increasing percentage of older individuals worldwide and the predicted rise of age-associated cognitive decline in brain functions. Transcranial brain stimulation methods, such as transcranial magnetic (TMS) and transcranial electric (tES) stimulation, have been extensively used in an effort to improve cognitive functions in humans.

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Background: Evidence suggests birth cohort differences in cognitive performance of older adults. Proxies of cognitive reserve (CR), such as educational attainment and occupational complexity, could also partly account for these differences as they are influenced by the sociocultural environment of the birth cohorts.

Objective: To predict cognitive performance using birth cohorts and CR and examine the moderating influence of CR on cognitive performance and structural brain health association.

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This study examined childhood socioeconomic status (SES) as a predictor of later life cognitive decline. Data came from 519 participants in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) study. SES measures at 11 years of age included parental educational attainment, father's occupational status, household characteristics and a composite measure of global childhood SES (i.

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Positive no-touch surfaces and undetectable SARS-CoV-2 aerosols in long-term care facilities: An attempt to understand the contributing factors and the importance of timing in air sampling campaigns.

Am J Infect Control

June 2021

Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Canada Research Chair on Bioaerosols, Quebec city, QC, Canada. Electronic address:

Background: Long-term care facilities (LTCF) are environments particularly favorable to coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic outbreaks, due to the at-risk population they welcome and the close proximity of residents. Yet, the transmission dynamics of the disease in these establishments remain unclear.

Methods: Air and no-touch surfaces of 31 rooms from 7 LTCFs were sampled and SARS-CoV-2 was quantified by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).

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Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders (NPD), also sometimes referred to as psychosurgery, is rapidly evolving, with new techniques and indications being investigated actively. Many within the field have suggested that some form of guidelines or regulations are needed to help ensure that a promising field develops safely. Multiple countries have enacted specific laws regulating NPD.

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Impact of bifrontal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on decision-making and stress reactivity. A pilot study.

J Psychiatr Res

March 2021

Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Medical School, Université Laval, CERVO Brain Research Center, Centre Intégré Universitaire en Santé et Services Sociaux de La Capitale-Nationale, Quebec City, QC, Canada.

Stress is an adaptive response with repercussions on the human health. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is thought to be involved in stress regulation by contributing to limit its biological and behavioral pejorative consequences. Here, to investigate the contribution of the DLPFC in stress response, we applied transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the DLPFC during acute stress exposure in healthy participants.

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Individuals with insomnia present unique patterns of electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry between homologous regions of each brain hemisphere, yet few studies have assessed asymmetry within the same hemisphere. Increase in intrahemispheric asymmetry during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in good sleepers (GS) and disruption of REM sleep in insomnia sufferers (INS) both point out that this activity may be involved in the pathology of insomnia. The objective of the present exploratory study was to evaluate and quantify patterns of fronto-central, fronto-parietal, fronto-occipital, centro-parietal, centro-occipital and parieto-occipital intrahemispheric asymmetry in GS and INS, and to assess their association with sleep-wake misperception, daytime anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as insomnia severity.

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Creating a Multisite Perinatal Psychiatry Databank: Purpose and Development.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

December 2020

Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.

Mental health issues during the perinatal period are common; up to 29% of pregnant and 15% of postpartum women meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria. Despite its ubiquity, little is known about the longitudinal trajectories of perinatal psychiatric illness. This paper describes a collaboration among six perinatal mental health services in Quebec, Canada, to create an electronic databank that captures longitudinal patient data over the course of the perinatal period.

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Eye tracking of smoking-related stimuli in tobacco use disorder: A proof-of-concept study combining attention bias modification with alpha-transcranial alternating current stimulation.

Drug Alcohol Depend

September 2020

Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Medical School, Université Laval, CERVO Brain Research Center, Centre intégré universitaire en santé et services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, 2325 rue de l'Université, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address:

Background: Tobacco use disorder (TUD) is characterized by the presence of an attentional bias (AB) towards smoking-related stimuli. We investigated whether combining an AB modification paradigm (ABM) with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) applied over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) reduces the AB towards smoking-related stimuli, as well as craving level and impulsive choices.

Methods: In a sham-controlled, crossover preliminary study, 19 subjects with TUD received two stimulation arms: 1) active tACS (10 Hz, 2 mA, 30 min) combined with ABM and 2) sham tACS combined with ABM, in a randomized order, separated by one week.

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Background: DOLCE (Improving Decision making On Location of Care with the frail Elderly and their caregivers) was a post-intervention clustered randomised trial (cRT) to assess the effect of training home care teams on interprofessional shared decision-making (IP-SDM). Alongside the cRT, we sought to monitor healthcare providers' level of behavioural intention to engage in an IP-SDM approach and to identify factors associated with this intention.

Methods: We conducted two cross-sectional surveys in the province of Quebec, Canada, one each at cRT entry and exit.

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: Transcranial stimulation with direct (tDCS) and alternating current (tACS) has increasingly gained interest in various fields, from cognitive neuroscience to clinical investigations. Transcranial current stimulation used alone may modulate brain activity that consequently influences behaviors, without providing information on potentially induced brain activity changes. The combination of transcranial current stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may help to address this.

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Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder is a debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by symptoms of intrusive re-experiencing of trauma, avoidance and hyper-arousal. Diagnosis and treatment of PTSD is further complicated by concurrently occurring disorders, the most frequent being major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders. Previous research highlights that attentional processing in posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with substantial interference by emotional stimuli, a phenomenon also observed in these concurrently occurring psychiatric disorders.

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Persons with musculoskeletal disorders frequently seek care in family medicine clinics. However, musculoskeletal education provided in medical schools is often considered insufficient. The implementation of a collaborative model that integrates physiotherapists into teaching clinics may benefit the musculoskeletal training of medical residents.

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"Please listen to me": A cross-sectional study of experiences of seniors and their caregivers making housing decisions.

PLoS One

February 2019

Centre de recherche sur les soins et les services de première ligne de l'Université Laval, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.

Background: Little is known about the decision-making experiences of seniors and informal caregivers facing decisions about seniors' housing decisions when objective decision making measures are used.

Objectives: To report on seniors' and caregivers' experiences of housing decisions.

Design: A cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach supplemented by qualitative data.

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A Systematic Review of Physical Activity Interventions in Individuals with Binge Eating Disorders.

Curr Obes Rep

March 2018

Département d'éducation physique, PEPS, Université Laval, 2300, rue de la Terrasse, suite 2214, Québec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.

Purpose Of Review: Our systematic review aims to assess the overall evidence available in the literature regarding the role of physical activity (PA) in individuals with binge eating disorder (BED) and better understand the potential underlying mechanisms of action.

Recent Findings: Currently, the most effective and well-established psychological treatment for BED is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with a remission rate around 80%. CBT is sometimes combined with pharmacotherapy targeting comorbidities associated with BED, such as obesity and depression.

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Online effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on prefrontal metabolites in gambling disorder.

Neuropharmacology

March 2018

Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Centre intégré universitaire en santé et services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, 2325 rue de l'Université, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address:

Gambling disorder is characterized by persistent maladaptive gambling behaviors and is now considered among substance-related and addictive disorders. There is still unmet therapeutic need for these clinical populations, however recent advances indicate that interventions targeting the Glutamatergic/GABAergic system hold promise in reducing symptoms in substance-related and addictive disorders, including gambling disorder. There is some data indicating that transcranial direct current stimulation may hold clinical benefits in substance use disorders and modulate levels of brain metabolites including glutamate and GABA.

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces anxiety symptoms, drug cravings, and elevates H-MRS brain metabolites: A case report.

Brain Stimul

March 2017

Centre intégré universitaire en santé et services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, 2325 rue de l'Université, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address:

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The interaction of GSK3B and FXR1 genotypes may influence the mania and depression dimensions in mood disorders.

J Affect Disord

April 2017

Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec du Centre intégré universitaire en santé et services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale, Québec, Canada; Département de psychiatrie et neurosciences, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

Background: Previous evidence in healthy subjects suggested that functional polymorphisms GSK3B rs12630592 and FXR1 rs496250 interact in regulating mood and emotional processing. We attempted to replicate this interaction primarily on manic and depressive dimensions in mood disorder patients, and secondarily on schizophrenia patients, diagnosis itself and age of onset.

Methods: Symptom dimensions were derived from the Comprehensive Assessment of Symptoms and History 82 items rated lifetime in acute episodes and stabilized interepisode intervals in 384 patients from the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Eastern Quebec Kindred Study.

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