Preventing Dementia

Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins developing in the brain 20-30 years before symptoms start to present in patients. Recent evidence suggests that up to 40% of AD cases could potentially be prevented by addressing modifiable risk factors such as insufficient education, hearing loss, hypertension, obesity, smoking, depression, social isolation, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption, air pollution, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Christina Shenvi is joined once again by Dr. Richard Isaacson, M.D., a Harvard-trained preventive neurologist and world-renowned researcher at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Florida. In 2013, he founded the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian, the first of its kind in the United States. In this episode of GEMCast they focus on the importance of individualized intervention and prevention as the future of AD treatment.

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This episode is 00:38:25 long.

This episode was published on Aug 23, 2024.

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