Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Yet,

these older women did not have cognitive symptoms because their brain were healthy otherwise.

So if they had done a test and they had seen at high tau levels, many of them would have stressed out about the fact of high tau levels, even though when they died,

they still didn't have significant cognitive decline.

We have an incomplete picture.

And I am concerned about having a piece of the number, like, you know, you have a panel of blood tests you can do, and you only have like one or two, and then,

That's incomplete information.

Ideally, you would like to go check it out and address it, but I think it will cause unnecessary stress for people like me, realizing that I'm a minority.

My lovely wife, I told her, honey, do you want to do the test?

Of course I want to know.

That's brain training.

Your brain is like a muscle and the more you stimulate it, the better it will function and the more it will grow.

There's a layer of the brain on the outside that's like a blanket that covers all other brain structures.

It's called cortex.

And then you have this hippocampus, which is the size of your thumb.

It's deeper in the brain, one on the right, one on the left, near your ears.

Cortex and hippocampus are the brain areas that are most important for your cognitive abilities.

whether reading, writing, typing, driving, doing your taxes, do everything you do.

All the cognitive things you do emanate from cortex and hippocampus.

And different parts of the cortex and hippocampus form networks.