Massive canadian study tracks 1,500 brains to unlock dementia secrets

NCT ID NCT03402919

Recruiting now Knowledge-focused Sponsor: McGill University Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study follows 1,573 adults aged 50 to 90 across Canada, including people with different types of dementia and those with healthy memory. Researchers will use memory tests, brain scans, and blood samples to track how thinking and memory change over time. The goal is to better understand dementia and related conditions, not to test a new treatment.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

Alzheimer disease Cognitive Dysfunction dementia frontotemporal dementia Lewy body dementia Lewy Body Disease Mixed Dementias Parkinson disease subjective cognitive decline

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

ALZHEIMER DISEASE (AD) COGNITIVELY UNIMPAIRED DEMENTIA FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA (FTD) LEWY BODY DISEASE(LBD) MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) MIXED DEMENTIA PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PD) SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE (SCD) SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Contacts and locations

Locations

Baycrest Clinical Unit
RECRUITING

Toronto, Ontario, M6A 1W1, Canada
Bruyère Research Institute
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5C8, Canada
Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1J3H5, Canada
Clinique de cognition Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
RECRUITING

Montreal, Quebec, H3W 1W5, Canada
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
RECRUITING

Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
Gait and Brain Lab
RECRUITING

London, Ontario, N6C 5J1, Canada
Hamilton General Hospital
RECRUITING

Hamilton, Ontario, L8L 2X2, Canada
Hôpital Enfant-Jésus
RECRUITING

Québec, Quebec, G1J 1Z4, Canada
Island Health
NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Victoria, British Columbia, V8R 6R3, Canada
Jewish General Hospital/McGill Memory Clinic
RECRUITING

Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
Kawartha Centre
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Peterborough, Ontario, K9H 2P4, Canada
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4, Canada
St. Joseph's Health Care London
RECRUITING

London, Ontario, N6A 4V2, Canada
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
University Health Network Memory Clinic
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada
University of Alberta Hospital
RECRUITING

Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2B7, Canada
University of Calgary
RECRUITING

Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
University of Waterloo
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Veteran's Memorial Building
RECRUITING

Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3E 2E1, Canada

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