Can we treat post stroke dementia? I Professor Raj N Kalaria FMedSci on modifying risk factors

Professor Rajesh N Kalaria FMedSci speaks about the global severity of stroke and dementia in society and goes over the findings and lessons from the CogFAST study – cognitive function after stroke study – outcomes of which might mean something for each one of us.

“We can’t change our genes, and we can’t change our age but we can modify every other risk factor for stroke,” he says. He discusses findings that show the impact of modifying some risks factors such as hypertension, and diabetes in elderly post-stroke survivors.

This talk was part of the event "Talks from new Fellows 2022".

Professor Raj Kalaria is an academic neuropathologist and a research trained neuroepidemiologist. He has distinguished himself as an international leader in cerebrovascular diseases. Raj is internationally recognised as an expert in vascular dementia (VaD). Since his appointment as Professor in 1997 in the MRC Neurochemical Pathology Unit, Newcastle University, he has become a world authority on the vascular causes of dementia.

His interests include the interface between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD), post-stroke dementia and small vessel diseases of the brain. He has also worked on the prevalence and risk factors of AD and VaD in indigenous populations of developing countries.

Find out more about Professor Kalaria: https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellow...
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