In this week's episode you will learn about: 

⦾ Reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s disease

⦾ Best practices in supporting the patient

⦾ The connection between depression and Alzheimer’s

⦾ Potential Alzheimer’s vaccine update

Gayatri Devi, MD, MS, FACP, FAAN, is an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital /Northwell Health and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Downstate Medical Center. She is a board-certified neurologist, with additional board certifications in Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology, and she served on the faculty of New York University’s School of Medicine as a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry until 2015.

Book: The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

Professor Eitan Okun has been a ‘lifer’ at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, having earned his master’s and doctorate in immunology there. His master’s research analyzed how stress can affect a person’s immunity to various diseases. For his doctorate, he concentrated on the immune system – specifically how different nodes in our immune system respond to various threats. While Alzheimer’s is Dr. Okun’s primary focus, he is also conducting studies in other areas. In 2015, he received a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help look for Parkinson’s disease in an MRI.