Symposium

Dementia Prevention 2024 Session I 9564

Corresponding Presenter(s)

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  Kurt V. Gold, MD (he/him/his)

  Physician and Clinical Investigator
  Fitness Research Institute
  Elkhorn, Nebraska, United States

Presenter(s)

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  Daniel H. Daneshvar, MD, PhD

  Chief of Brain Injury Rehabilitation
  Harvard Medical School
  Charlestown, MA, United States
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  Catherine (Katie) Siengsukon, PT, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  University of Kansas Medical Center
  Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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  Michele K. York, PhD, FACRM (she/her/hers)

  Professor/Neuropsychologist
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, TX, United States
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  Brian Downer, PhD, FACRM

  Associate Professor
  University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, Texas, United States
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  Rajagopal V. Sekhar, MD (he/him/his)

  Professor of Medicine
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, TX, United States
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  Patricia C. Heyn, PhD, FGA, FACRM (she/her/hers)

  Professor & Founding Director
  Center for Optimal Aging, Marymount University
  Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States

This series empowers participants with preventive measures to combat this looming dementia pandemic on a personal and professional basis. Practical instructions are provided for optimizing brain health and performace in areas of sleep, diet, exercise, and related interventions.

Restorative sleep not only bolsters the immune system, recharges batteries, restocks cerebral supply shelves, optimizes academic, artistic, and athletic performance, but also opens up glymphatic channels requisite for cleaning our cerebral circuit boards of the damaging debris contributing to the accumulation of beta-amyloid, tau- and alpha-synuclein proteins correlating with Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s, and Lewy Body dementias.

Healthy Diet correlates with dementia prevention. We'll show you how.

By reviewing the work of increasing BDNF, successfully motivating the already impaired, and addressing the exercise benefits of treating the serially concussed, we hope to inspire participants to increase their own exercising and empower them on how to more effectively inspire their patients to do the same.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify more common types of dementia in terms of presentation including Alzheimer's, vascular, Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia's.
• Identify and implement exercise specific for post-concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy patient's
• Describe the 4 M's of the Age-Friendly Health Systems framework: Medication, Mobility, Mentation, and what Matters most for the purpose of facilitating restorative rehab for dementia patients.
• Discuss the basic preventive medicine principles of dementia prevention including sleep, diet, exercise, metabolic health, and head trauma precautions.