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Hi doctor, my name is Pam and three years ago I had a brain hemorrhage

snow skiing and I just wondered if because of that trauma to my brain does that

enhance my chances of having either dementia or Alzheimer's in the future and

should I follow up with scans in the near future because of that trauma?

Yes. So the answer is yes to both of those. So if you've had trauma and you subsequently had a bleed, what happens is it decreases the reserve in your brain.

So let me just talk about this concept for a minute.

All of us have reserve in our brain.

So when you're conceived, your brain is designed with a lot of reserve.

So if your mom's healthy in her pregnancy with you, then when you're

born you have all sorts of reserve. But if she wasn't, she drank, she was chronically

stressed, she had viral infections, she had low levels of vitamin D or omega 3 fatty acids and your reserve is not so

great.

But say you're born with a lot of reserve and you had great parents and they fed you really good food and they

exposed you to great learning and not a lot of stress, your brain has a lot of reserve.

But say you're raised in an alcoholic home

and people are fighting a lot

and there's chronic stress and not good supervision

and maybe you fall down a flight of stairs

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