Approaching How We Care for People with Alzheimer’s Disease in a New Light of Hope with Dr. Gayatri Devi & Dr. Eitan Okun

This episode will focus on the care of people with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Original Air Date Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

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Meet Our Guests:

Gayatri Devi, MD, MS, FACP, FAAN, is an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital /Northwell Health and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Downstate Medical Center. She is a board-certified neurologist, with additional board certifications in Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology, and she served on the faculty of New York University’s School of Medicine as a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry until 2015.

Book: The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias

Professor Eitan Okun has been a ‘lifer’ at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, having earned his master’s and doctorate in immunology there. His master’s research analyzed how stress can affect a person’s immunity to various diseases. For his doctorate, he concentrated on the immune system – specifically how different nodes in our immune system respond to various threats. While Alzheimer’s is Dr. Okun’s primary focus, he is also conducting studies in other areas. In 2015, he received a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help look for Parkinson’s disease in an MRI.

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Are We Happy Yet? Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life — A boot camp manual for greater emotional fitness. Happiness waits for no one and sometimes we all need support.

H–Factor: Where is Your Heart? — Lisa’s documentary film explores the journey of human happiness. Emotions are contagious and happiness is a universally desired state. We tend to forget we all have the freedom to be happy or the liberty to be miserable each day.

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