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Professor Matthew Kiernan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
877 total appearances

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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

That's where it's going to be.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And we're going to see what are those levels, but we can't really, at the moment, we haven't done large population studies to know what that range should be.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And also, as you say, we don't want to panic people.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

You don't have a range.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

That's cutting edge research now.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

To see where you fit.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

I'd say with absolute guarantee they will be.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And you'll be going to the doctor with a blood result, like you do now with a full blood count hemoglobin, and they'll say, oh, your neurofilament is slightly high.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

This is the treatment to bring it down towards roughly normal levels.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Oh, that's really high.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

We need to do some more investigations on that one.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

We need to do a lumbar puncture and MRI scan.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So I think it's going to start to determine...

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

the way forward.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

But then also linked to that, we're going to start having treatments.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And we have now two treatments for Alzheimer's disease, monoclonal antibodies, and there's a lot more on the horizon coming through.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So it's very much a therapeutic era.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Wow.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Yeah.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

You'd be seeing it as a neurologist, but it's a big deal.