Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I needn't tell people how devastating this disease is.
The key feature, of course, is memory loss.
It begins with that.
It's a type of dementia, of course.
And people often ask me, is it different?
It's slightly different.
70% of dementia cases are Alzheimer's.
It's inclined to present with memory loss.
That's one of the first features.
You get personality changes.
You get various features that make it a bit more severe than dementia.
Dementia will also end up with memory loss.
But dementia sometimes begins with other things like a decision making.
And one of the other things in dementia.
If it's Alzheimer's though, they diagnose it partly on these symptoms.
Memory loss being the first key feature that emerges.
And then they can image the brain and measure the brain and see changes happening in what's called a hippocampus, which I'll come back to in a minute.
Now, so basically it's a disease of the brain and it affects memory and personality and it progresses.
That's the tragedy.
There's no real way to slow it down.
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