Sylvia Villeneuve
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Villeneuve is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. Her team uses multimodal neuroimaging (MRI and PET) to investigate brain changes associated with age and neurodegeneratives diseases. Dr. Villeneuve received a PhD in Neuropsychology from the Université de Montréal in 2011. She did a first postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, assessing the interplay between beta-amyloid deposition, vascular diseases and cognition in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease. She did a second postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University where she assessed the predictive value of neurovascular insults, such as deterioration of the blood-brain barrier or reduced cerebral vascular reactivity, to detect early changes associated with amyloid pathology.
Research Interest
Multimodal neuroimaging, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's prevention
Publications
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Multimodal characterization of older APOE2 carriers reveals selective reduction of amyloid load. Grothe MJ, Villeneuve S, Dyrba M, Bartrés-Faz D, Wirth M; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.
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Highly efficient solid phase-supported radiosynthesis of [11 C]PiB using tC18 cartridge as a "3-in-1" production entity. Boudjemeline M, Hopewell R, Rochon PL, Jolly D, Hammami I, Villeneuve S, Kostikov A.
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White matter structure in older adults moderates the benefit of sleep spindles on motor memory consolidation. Mander BA, Zhu AH, Lindquist JR, Villeneuve S, Rao V, Lu B, Saletin JM, Ancoli-Israel S, Jagust W, Walker MP.
