AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research

105 - Cognitive or Clinical Indicators of Alzheimer's Disease Part 2: September 2020

Episode Summary

In this episode, Courtney covers Part 2 of the papers published in September of 2020 on cognitive testing as a diagnostic tool. The topics in this part cover a wide array of topics including brain wave techniques, gait analysis, facial recognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and finally cognitive testing. Sections: 1:56 Brain wave studies in Dementia (2 papers) 4:23 Gait (2 papers) 7:16 Facial Recognition and Facial structure (3 papers) 12:29 Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Dementia (5 papers) 19:39 Cognitive Testing for AD (4 papers)

Episode Notes

In this episode, Courtney covers Part 2 of the papers published in September of 2020 on cognitive testing as a diagnostic tool. The topics in this part cover a wide array of topics including brain wave techniques, gait analysis, facial recognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and finally cognitive testing.  

 

Sections:  

1:56 Brain wave studies in Dementia (2 papers)  

4:23 Gait (2 papers)  

7:16 Facial Recognition and Facial structure (3 papers)  

12:29 Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Dementia (5 papers)  

19:39 Cognitive Testing for AD (4 papers) 

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Today's episode was scripted by Vyshnavy Balendra, Kathryn Fong, Shruti Kochhar, and Courtney Kloske, hosted by Courtney Kloske, and edited by Anusha Kamesh. 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. 

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