103 - Mechanisms underlying Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease: September 2020

This episode covers recent papers that explore the underlying mechanisms of both protective and risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease. You’ll hear a little about how education, exercise and diet might reduce the risk of cognitive decline later in life, and a lot about the physiological and biochemical factors underlying high fat diets, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and exposure to environmental pollutants - with the occasional  miscellaneous topic in between!  

Sections in this episode:  

1:35 Protective factors  

7:50 Risk factors (diet, diabetes, cardiovascular)  

26:16 Vitamin Deficiencies and AD  

29:27 Environmental Exposures and AD  

35:26 Miscellaneous 

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Today's episode was scripted and hosted by Naila Kuhlmann, reviewed by Judy Cheng, and edited by Alexandra Pavel. Big thanks to Elyn Rowe and Jacques Ferreira for sorting all the papers published in September into themes for our episodes, and props to the team that works very hard behind the scenes to make all this possible. 

Our music is from "Journey of a Neurotransmitter" by musician and fellow neuroscientist Anusha Kamesh; you can find the original piece and her other music on soundcloud under Anusha Kamesh or on her YouTube channel, AKMusic.   

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