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Keeping your brain healthy | Drs Ayesha & Dean Sherzai

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Role of Retina in Alzheimer's Disease

Amyloid and tau you can actually tell ten years before there's a pattern coming towards I mean, it's not very directly Predictive, but it gives you a picture of risk the others that we're looking at we don't have it now. Excess homes are these little clumps of My cells around byproducts of cells that that are extruded out of the Central nervous system. You can detect them in the blood they're in small numbers But you can detect them with imaging modalities such as pet scan MRI techniques fMRI,. Pet scans are very good because with spats cans you what you do is you put a ligand That connects to amyloid and then you

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