Why fasting bolsters brain power: Mark Mattson at TEDxJohnsHopkinsUniversity
Mark Mattson is the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. He is also a professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is one...
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Translator: Madina Juarez Reviewer: Carlos Arturo Morales Thanks, Brian. I am at the National Institute on Aging, and as many of you know-- people are getting older, and there have been advances in cancer research, cardiovascular disease research-- many people who would have died in their 50s and 60s from those diseases are living into the danger zone for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. It's projected that by 2050, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease will triple from what it is today. It's 5 million today, it'll be 15 million by 2050. In my lab, we use a number of different animal models that are relevant to age-related neurodegenerative disorders. We have mice that accumulate amyloid in their brain as they ge...
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Translator: Madina Juarez Reviewer: Carlos Arturo Morales Thanks, Brian. I am at the National Institute on Aging, and as many of you know-- people are getting older, and there have been advances in cancer research, cardiovascular disease research-- many people who would have died in their 50s and 60s from those diseases are living into the danger zone for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. It's projected that by 2050, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease will triple from what it is today. It's 5 million today, it'll be 15 million by 2050. In my lab, we use a number of different animal models that are relevant to age-related neurodegenerative disorders. We have mice that accumulate amyloid in their brain as they ge...
