The 5 Different Types of Alzheimer's Disease, with Dr. Dale Bredesen
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Like most brain health diagnoses, Alzheimer's disease is not just one thing. In fact, this week's guest Dr. Dale Bredesen has identified 5 major subtypes for Alzheimer's disease, and they all have different causes and different treatment recommendations. In the third episode of a series with Dr. Bredesen, he defines the characteristics of each of these subtypes and identifies how and why they manifest in the brain.
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| 0:49.1 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:50.2 | We are here with our friend and colleague Dr Dale Brettison, who is the author of The End of |
| 0:56.7 | Alzheimer's and his new book, The End of Alzheimer's program to really help you take a deep dive. I mean, how you can really apply |
| 1:05.0 | apply it in your own life and we just adore him and grateful for his work. Let's talk about the different types of Alzheimer's. You know, ever since I started imaging in 1991, I'm also a child psychiatrist my expertise was on ADD or ADHD and there was this you |
| 1:29.6 | know study from NIH and it showed decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex when you try to concentrate. |
| 1:36.1 | And so in my mind, oh, well that's what ADD is until I scanned a couple of hundred |
| 1:41.5 | ADD patients and I'm like, oh, it's not one thing. |
| 1:46.2 | Some people have the classic pattern. |
| 1:48.8 | A lot of people have other patterns and ultimately I described seven types of ADHD and all psychiatric |
| 1:57.2 | illnesses are not single or simple disorders they all have multiple types and the same thing is true for Alzheimer's disease. |
| 2:07.0 | So talk a little bit about how you came to that conclusion and what are the different types of Alzheimer's disease. |
| 2:15.0 | Yeah, you made a great point there. |
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