AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research

73 - Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease Part 2: September 2020

Episode Summary

In this episode, Naila goes through 13 papers that explore how benzodiazepine and anticholinergic drug use affect individuals with dementia, whether exposure to certain air pollutants increase the risk of AD, and how cognitive reserve - whether in the form of occupation, bilingualism or education - may protect against cognitive decline. Enjoy!

Episode Notes

In this episode, Naila goes through 13 papers that explore how benzodiazepine and anticholinergic drug use affect individuals with dementia, whether exposure to certain air pollutants increase the risk of AD, and how cognitive reserve - whether in the form of occupation, bilingualism or education - may protect against cognitive decline. Enjoy!  

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Today's episode was scripted by and hosted by Naila Kuhlmann, reviewed by Shruti Kochhar, and edited by Ellen Koch. 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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