The first interview was with Dr Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Longevity Centre. He talked about a way of identifying people who are still healthy yet may be at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the future, and therefore who might benefit from some intensive dementia prevention. There are a couple of chemical markers for Alzheimer's in the brain, one of which is tau tangles. Small and his colleagues have been studying these for some time, and have followed a group over two years with various interventions and controls. Read the transcript or listen to the interview here.
The other interview was with John Ringman, who has been researching people who develop Alzheimer's disease quite young due to a genetic mutation, and what this tells us about the disease. Ringman and his fellow researchers have been investigating chemical messages which could help with treatment and prevention of the disease. The transcript or audio can be found here.
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