Sunnybrook Dementia Study (SDS)

Sample details

The SDS follows over 1,500 patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia from Alzheimer's disease, vascular, frontotemporal, or Lewy body disease, and 140 control participants. All participants are aged 40 to 90 years with at least 8 years of education. The cognitively impaired participants also required a Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) score of greater than or equal to 16. The participants were recruited by attending a neurology clinic at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Study design
Cohort - clinical, Cohort

Number of participants at first data collection

1,200 (participants)

Recruitment is ongoing

Age at first data collection

40 - 90 years (participants)

Participant year of birth

Varied (participants)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Patients and clinical populations

People with mild and major neurocognitive disorders

Dataset details

Country

Canada

Year of first data collection

1995

Primary Institutions

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University of Toronto

Links

brainlab.ca/sunnybrookdementiastudy/

clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01800214

Profile paper DOI
Not available

Funders

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, IRSC)

Ongoing?
Yes

Data types collected

Quantitative data collection

Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)

Qualitative data collection