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Amelie Metz
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🧠 PhD Candidate at McGill University and Douglas Research Center | frontotemporal dementia and neuroimaging | 🥨@🇨🇦
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dadarmahsa.bsky.social
We are excited to launch The Data Quartet Challenge, recognizing student contributions to projects that integrate data from at least 2 of 4 FRQ supported Quebec Alzheimer’s and Aging cohorts (PREVENT-AD, CIMA-Q, NuAge, TRIAD), with 3 prizes of 5000$ tinyurl.com/3dy899xn
The Data Quartet Challenge.pdf
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨
Our systematic review and meta-analysis on ML+CSVD for dementia diagnosis and prognosis has been published! An international collaboration, featuring @Valerie Lohner
@oparent.bsky.social
@helenagellersen.bsky.social
and many others.

doi.org/10.1186/s131...
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Machine learning applications in vascular neuroimaging for the diagnosis and prognosis of cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a common neurological condition that contributes to strokes, dementia, disability, and mortality worldwide. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis t...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Hey #AAIC25 !
Today I'll be sharing our research on the mediating effect of WMH on spontaneous brain activity during aging! 🧠
Join me on poster 430!
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July 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🧾 Poster #487
Data-Driven Characterization of Heterogeneous Brain Atrophy and White Matter Hyperintensity Progression in FTD (Amelie Metz @ameliemetz.bsky.social )
Tuesday, July 29
July 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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📣 Don't miss the CIC lecture by Yara Yakoub on April 30 @2pm!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/yara-y...

📣 Venez participer le 30 avril au séminaire du CIC avec Yara Yakoub @14h!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/event/yar...
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Hey #ADPD2025 , I'm happy to present our work on characterizing brain atrophy and cerebrovascular pathology in Frontotemporal Dementia subtypes!

Tomorrow, April 5, 9:40am, Hall F2, session: Mechanisms and Clinical Trials in FTD, ALS, and Neurodegeneration 02
April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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braincomms.bsky.social Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · Mar 22
Metz et al. report that a study combining MRI brain atrophy and clinical data using machine learning achieved 89% accuracy in classifying frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Please read at:https://buff.ly/uGmX2fg @DadarMahsa @YasharZeighami @sylv_villeneuve @sducharme66
March 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Join us for the next edition of Neurogenesis on March 26 at @theneuro.bsky.social, featuring @danasmall.bsky.social & @yasharneuro.bsky.social!

Learn about their research on gut-brain connections and the aging brain & network with peers at the post-event reception.🧠

Register now: mcgill.ca/x/iw5
Neurogenesis Speaker Series. March 26, 2025, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the Neuro ft. Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami
March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
Faculty members should always assume there are first-generation students in their classrooms, because there almost always are.
March 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay

https://go.nature.com/43w9Voe
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
Nature - To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Excited to share that the first project of my PhD was published in 🧠 @braincomms.bsky.social 🧠 !!
We showed that machine learning can effectively differentiate frontotemporal dementia subtypes combining brain atrophy and cognition 🎉
doi.org/10.1093/brai... (1/10)
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Frontotemporal dementia subtyping using machine learning, multivariate statistics and neuroimaging academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Frontotemporal dementia subtyping using machine learning, multivariate statistics and neuroimaging
Metz et al. report that machine learning can effectively differentiate frontotemporal dementia subtypes, combining brain atrophy patterns and cognitive per
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February 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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hbhlmcgill.bsky.social
Trainees: Showcase your research on brain health at #HBHLSymposium2025 with a poster or flash talk! 🏆

Open to grad students at @mcgill.ca, @umontreal.ca, @polymtl.bsky.social, @westernu.bsky.social & UBC whose research aligns with HBHL's themes. 🧠

Apply by March 21, 2025: mcgill.ca/x/ikv
collage of students at HBHL Symposium
February 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM