Inside The Lab: Detecting Alzheimer's Earlier Than Ever Through Blood Tests

Deep inside your brain's memory centre, something extraordinary is happening that scientists are only just beginning to understand. Dr. Ashley Webb – a leading neuroscientist at the Buck Institute and scientific co-founder of Bolden Therapeutics – has uncovered a shocking discovery about how male and female brains age in fundamentally different ways.

In this fascinating conversation with Méline, Dr. Webb reveals her groundbreaking research on the hippocampus, our brain's GPS system. Her most startling finding? Female brains undergo dramatic changes on the X chromosome during ageing that simply don't occur in males – potentially explaining why women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease.
But there's hope. Dr. Webb's research shows our brains can regenerate throughout life, creating brand new neurons through neurogenesis.
In this this episode you'll discover:

Why finding your car is actually a sophisticated test of brain health
How new blood tests can detect Alzheimer's decades before symptoms appear
Why voluntary exercise literally grows new brain cells
How chronic stress destroys memory formation
The effects of neural stem cell decline
The brain's quality control systems that clear cellular damage

"The brain can actually regenerate itself to some extent," Dr. Webb explains. "The dogma has always been no new neurons – but it turns out that's very likely to be untrue. And here's why..."
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