Have A Bad Night’s Sleep? Here’s What It Is Doing To Your Brain
https://youtu.be/DN7Z53VDUCg Being Patient talks to Dr. Daniel Gartenberg about what happens to your brain when you are deprived of sleep and how technology can help you get a better night's rest. More
Life-changing Genes: ‘I Could Have A 50% Chance of Getting Alzheimer’s By 50’
As a college student, Marty Reiswig decided to take his girlfriend to a family reunion. After he noticed many of his relatives struggling with everyday tasks like pulling out a chair, Reiswig decided to take a closer look at his… More
A Rare Gene Has Caused Members of This Man’s Family to Have a 99% Chance of Developing Alzheimer’s
https://youtu.be/EJI1FBsI5DI Would you want to know if you had a rare early-onset gene that meant you were almost certainly going to get Alzheimer's? Marty Reiswig’s family is just one of only 643 known to carry the genetic mutation PSEN2. Marty talks… More
Do Hormones Really Affect Your Memory?
https://youtu.be/2k9DmuVN9DI Being Patient talks to Dr. Pauline Maki about the effect of hormones on cognition and whether there is a link between estrogen, menopause and memory loss. She's a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Illinois at… More
Can Technology Help Diagnose Alzheimer’s 5 Years Before Symptoms Appear?
https://youtu.be/F_h1ozWtyxQ Being Patient talks to Dr. Mallar Chakravarty, a computational neuroscientist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Canada. He discusses how artificial intelligence could help diagnose cognitive decline, combined with MRI and assessing the shape of the hippocampus. More
Could Artificial Intelligence Catch What Doctors Miss? Precision Medicine and Its Role in Brain Health
What if a machine could determine the source of your brain fog, offer a targeted treatment plan to reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's or slow the disease's progression? According to Dr. John Walker, who founded uMETHOD Health, which uses artificial… More
Alzheimer’s and AI: How Technology Can Help with Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. John Walker speaks about the intersection between artificial intelligence, precision medicine and Alzheimer's treatment. The interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHoaK-ivg4w&ab_channel=BeingPatientAlzheimer%27s Summary: Being Patient talks to Dr. John Walker, who founded uMETHOD Health, the first company that is using precision medicine and AI… More
The Link Between Pregnancy, Blood Pressure and Alzheimer’s
https://youtu.be/f4XSKxAorDI Being Patient talks to Dr. Heather Boyd from the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. She's the leading author of a new study that found high blood pressure during pregnancy may triple dementia risk later in life. More
Two-Thirds of Alzheimer’s Patients Are Women. Here’s How That’s Affecting the Search for a Cure.
https://youtu.be/b6N_U7SUirM Being Patient talks to Dr. Rebecca Nebel about why Alzheimer's presents itself differently in women compared to men and how these differences impact basic research and clinical trials. More
How Depression Ages the Brain
https://youtu.be/dB4n65hl5IM We speak to Dr. Darya Gaysina, psychologist and epidemiologist at University of Sussex, about the link between depression and cognitive decline. More
Why Alzheimer’s Hits Women Harder Than Men
https://youtu.be/QWi-_5QpwIM We talk to Dr. Marie Pasinski, faculty member at Harvard Medical School and neurologist at Massachusetts General's Institute for Brain Health, about why two out of three Americans with Alzheimer's are women and why it's especially important for women to… More
Could Being ‘Skinny Fat’ Harm Your Brain?
https://youtu.be/tfIRpHdwBy4 We know that obesity is linked to increased dementia risk—but what about being 'skinny fat'? Being Patient talks to Dr. James Galvin, associate dean for clinical research at the Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine, about what he's discovered… More
Not My Mom: How Brain Disease Alters Personality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0aybkjMjY&t=1749s We talk to Dr. Bruce Miller, head of the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF and a world-renowned expert on how dementia alters behavior and personality. More