Dr. Ayesha Sherzai

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319 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Apr

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So dementia is an umbrella category.

It's a definition of a condition where your cognition and your memory affects your daily activities.

And there are many different types of dementia.

60 to 70% of dementias are Alzheimer's dementia.

So it's the most prominent type of dementia.

That's why the word Alzheimer's is used synonymously with dementia.

It's actually a type of dementia.

Another type of dementia is vascular dementia, when the blood vessels in the brain are damaged.

And then there are other smaller ones like frontotemporal lobe dementia, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's dementia, Lewy body dementia.

And most of them essentially impact the way you think, your memory, your decision making, your processing speed.

And it's something that doesn't start right away, like we were saying it earlier.

Right.

It's a cumulative damage in the brain that causes this condition.

There are multiple different types of protein.

One is called amyloid beta protein.

Another one is called tau.

And what happens is over time, they start damaging the inside of brain cells on the outside of the brain cells.

And there are different ways of actually looking at the brain to understand what kind of dementia people have.

I'm making a generalized statement, but something that I see quite often is stress.

And we define stress in different ways in our lives, but stress is such a powerful contributor to cognitive decline.

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