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Dementia Rehab Lab

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Research lab at KITE, Toronto Rehab led by Dr. Andrea Iaboni Assoc Prof, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Toronto #geriatrics #psychiatry #aging research Focus on technology for quality #dementia care.

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello #medsky! Happy to find a friendlier and more sane place to talk about science.

I am a geriatric psychiatrist who focuses on caring for the mental health of people with #dementia in nursing homes.

My lab works to develop technology to improve health and behaviour monitoring in nursing homes.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

OF COURSE SPEED CAMERAS WORK! There’s clear evidence of that. They save lives, and removing them will costs lives, including KIDS’ LIVES. The narrative of “cash grab” is a political tactic. Every dollar raised by such cameras is evidence of too much deadly speeding and the need for such cameras.

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News

Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...

www.cbc.ca

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 15d

This is a problem.

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Tim Ford (Tomb Fart 🎃) @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 16d

"Maple the Moose" is pretty good, but "Clutch the Eagle" sounds like a command Trump's addled brain sends to his gropey hands in the oval office.

FIFA World Cup Mascots
Maple the Moose
Zayu the Jaguar
Clutch the Eagle

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 22d

Just found a recently published systematic review on AI in dementia care published in 2025, with a search that covers 2018-2022.

well, ok, probably not much new on this topic since 2022....😏

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 29d

We are recruiting a Geriatric Psychiatrist to join the Seniors Mental Health Division, University Health Network, Toronto. Please see posting for details!

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#geriatricpsychiatry #oldagepsychiatry #seniorsmentalhealth

Job posting Geriatric Psychiatrist | Andrea Iaboni

We are seeking a Geriatric Psychiatrist to join the Seniors Mental Health Division at the University Health Network, located in Toronto. This role is based at the renowned Toronto Western Hospital, kn...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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AMS Healthcare @amshealthcare.ca · Sep 3

With great pleasure, we'd like to announce and welcome the 2025 AMS Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence! We will feature the 11 exceptional fellows from across disciplines in the coming weeks.

Read about the #AMSfellowship here:
buff.ly/Dol9VxV

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Aug 28

One more reason to care about our eroding democracies.

Social inequality and weak democratic institutions are linked to faster aging.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The exposome of healthy and accelerated aging across 40 countries - Nature Medicine

Analyses of the exposomes of populations across 40 countries found global disparities in healthy aging attributed to diverse biological, socioeconomic and political factors, with accelerated aging see...

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Aug 17

Very cool study. Walkability is key.

Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Aug 17

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Aug 17

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 15

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?

Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

www.motherjones.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 14

Tell me more about how your bots will cure loneliness, Zuck.

The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said.

Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn’t require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”

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Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social · Aug 7

👋 medical toxicologist here and I am begging people to not take this gas station “wellness” drink

want to know why?? 🧵

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 4

Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

My colleague @leiashum.bsky.social will be presenting this work at the #AAIC2025 session at 9am Wednesday "Artificial Intelligence-Focused Advancements in ADRD Diagnosis and Care"

Hope to see you there!

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

This study supports that there is valuable information captured by the location tracking system, and that this information can be leveraged to provide clinical insights about neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

We also found that in those instances when the algorithm was confident but "wrong," most of those shifts had clinical labels on the edge between agitation or non-agitation; or when they were blindly relabelled from the clinical documentation, it turned out the algorithm was actually "right".

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

We found that markers such as speed, length and tortuosity of path, and number of angles in the path, among others, helped to distinguish agitation from non-agitated movements.

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

In our recently published study, we identified digital biomarkers of motor agitation using location tracking data from a real-time location safety system installed in a dementia care unit, and used them to predict the presence of motor agitation during a nursing shift.

Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Is it possible to distinguish motor agitation from healthy motor activity in people with dementia? 🧵

www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...

#AAIC2025

Machine Learning to Detect Motor Agitation in People with Dementia Using Real-Time Location Data

Motor agitation in people living with dementia manifests as excessive motor activity and aberrant movement patterns, such as wandering behavior,1 and is a common symptom observed in 28%–60% of residen...

www.ajgponline.org

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · May 30

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

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Politico @politico.com · Jul 17

Nearly 800,000 mpox vaccine doses that the US gov had promised to donate to African countries experiencing an outbreak of the disease cannot be shipped because they’re expiring in less than six months.

US has wasted hundreds of thousands of vaccines meant for Africa, health officials there say

The expiration of shots the Biden administration promised to send comes after President Donald Trump cut deeply into foreign aid.

www.politico.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Apr 22

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · Jul 17

The lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 was 42%, higher in women, Black adults and APOE ε4 carriers up to 60%. US adults with dementia will increase from ~514,000 in 2020 to ~1 million in 2060."

14 of 35 Alzheimer's research centers have had all funding cut off

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia - Nature Medicine

A cohort study of over 15,000 US adults found that the lifetime risk of developing dementia from ages 55 to 95 is 42%, with the highest risk in APOE ε4 carriers, women and Black adults, and projected ...

www.nature.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jul 16

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · Jul 9

**US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award @WesternU
-$160,000 to 25 PhD students for up to 4 years.
- Must've had offer rescinded/cancelled from US school.
-Expedited admission process.
-Feel free to reach out, if interested in a PhD in inorganic chem!

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

A Leading Canadian University Makes A Pitch For Top U.S. PhD Students

Western University, one of Canada’s leading public research universities, is launching an initiative aimed at luring away PhD students from premier U.S. institutions.

www.forbes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 9

Heavy rain in southern New Mexico on Tuesday afternoon caused catastrophic flash flooding, sweeping homes away and forcing water rescues, as well as closing roads. Three people had been admitted to the hospital and were in stable condition as of Tuesday evening. Read more: https://trib.al/woWOsV4

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