167 - Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer Disease and Treatments Targeting the Vasculature: May 2021

Elyn is back with more on all things vasculature! In this episode, she covers 14 papers that span many topics in the field of vascular contributions to Alzheimer disease - all the way from mechanisms linking cardiovascular and metabolic health to the Alzheimer pathology, to clinical studies associating cognitive symptoms with markers of cerebrovascular damage. Tune in to hear a perspective on AD that's outside of the amyloid cascade hypothesis!

Sections in this episode:

Overlap Between Cardiovascular Disease and AD (3:56)

Clinical Studies on Cerebrovascular Pathology (12:20)

Microvascular and Blood-Brain Barrier Changes in AD (16:03)

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We would like to thank our amazing team for all of the work that goes into every episode of AMiNDR. Today's episode was scripted and hosted by Elyn Rowe, reviewed by Courtney Kloske and edited by Michelle Grover and Ellen Koch. The bibliography was created by Sarah Louadi who also generated the wordcloud on www.wordart.com. 

Big thanks to the sorting team for sorting all the papers published in May into themes for our episodes: Jacques Ferreira, Elyn Rowe, Ellen Koch, Christy Yu, Nicole Corso, and Naila Kuhlmann. 

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Elyn Rowe would like to acknowledge her support from the Alzheimer Society of Canada, through the Alzheimer Society Research Program. The Alzheimer Society is committed to knowledge dissemination as a key pillar in their mission to  promote the search for causes, treatments, and a cure for Alzheimer disease.

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