Brain health and Alzheimer’s Disease

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This is such a trenchant topic and I wanted to cover it for so many reasons. 

Most of us get some kind of brain symptom at times but it is short lived, but that is not the case for many people. Alzheimer’s Disease is the commonest form of dementia affecting over 60% of all dementia sufferers worldwide.

This episode looks at the determinants of brain health and the aetiology of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Links:

Facts, figures and information on dementia: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia

Food and brain health: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-brain-foods (did not focus on this in the episode but in case you want to know more).

Brain health and food chat with @Doctors_Kitchen: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-doctors/8-eat-to-boost-your-brain-W4eh8cIyNHf/

The hippocampus and memory: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12009

Association between diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265876/

The ApoE gene: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.630502/full

Cognitive stimulation therapy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639131/

Alzheimer’s support: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/

101 on Alzheimer’s Disease - what it is and it’s pathology: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-happens-brain-alzheimers-disease

Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/dementia-information/types-of-dementia/alzheimers-disease/treatments/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.