Alzheimer’s Researcher to Discuss Advances Against Dementia

Portrait of Dale Bredesen in front of a visualization of cells.

Dr. Dale Bredesen

Reducing the Global Burden of Dementia

by John Adeniran ’19

Dr. Dale Bredesen, an internationally renowned expert in the field of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, will give the lecture “Reducing the Global Burden of Dementia: The First Alzheimer’s Survivors” on Wednesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium, 360 W. Louther St. A book sale and signing will follow the lecture.

The Alzheimer's Association estimates that 5.5 million Americans are living with the disease, which is the most common form of dementia. The World Alzheimer Report estimated that nearly 50 million individuals globally were living with dementia in 2015. Bredesen will discuss new approaches he and his team have taken to treat Alzheimer's. His work suggests that a more personalized approach for treating the disease, along with increased education, is needed to reduce its effects worldwide.

Bredesen is director of the Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA and founding president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. His research has attracted an investment of more than $3 million, which will be used for continued clinical trials of the new personalized therapeutic approaches that he and his team have developed. Bredesen’s most recent book, The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. In it, Bredesen identifies 36 metabolic factors that contribute to the various progressions of Alzheimer's and offers a protocol, which lays out how these factors can be re-stabilized through lifestyle change.

The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Office of Senior Associate Provost, the Career Center, Pre-Health Society, the pre-health program, the Division of Student Life, the Wellness Center, the Department of Biology and the Program in Policy Studies. This program was initiated by the Clarke Forum student project managers.

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Published April 5, 2018