dizziness calling it havana syndrome. what can you tell us? those patients are having some very real symptoms the symptoms are nebulous in the sense that a lot of people can have similar symptoms related to a myriad of causes. so again it is hard to pinpoint these directional phenomena is what they are referring to ultimately caused brain atrophy or decreased the matter of the brain and causing symptoms. could it have? could it be a possible cause? anything is possible but it is challenging to say this happened to those patients in cuba and their brains had changes and these changes have caused problems. even the people writing the study said there is clinical uncertainty as to what we are seeing in these images. daymac we we always be
sleep how is your brain working? that is the problem with these medications, they do give you asleep but you might not reach those delta waives that we talk about which is the quality sleep that you need for the consolidation. what is happening is with elderly people they are having brain atrophy in their pre frontal cortex and they are showing that that is related to sleep quality. some studies have shown if you actually put current onto the brain and you re able to deliver the delta waives of sleep what they are showing is an improvement in memory. jaime: get a good night sleep. absolutely. jaime: doctor, thank you. thank you very much. jon: love to sleep. incredible surveillance video out of china of one man s brush with death. take a lock at this. he s waiting at an intersection, straddling his motorcycle, then nearly gets crushed when that turning truck overturns right in front of him and pretty much on top of his bike. he walked away from the accident, fortunately. it happe
individuals whose mother had alzheimer s disease, they had a phenomenal shrinkage or brain atrophy over those two years compared to the images of the other volunteers in the study. we re all getting older in this country, the whole country is getting much older at the moment. when people are worried this sort of thing, what should people be doing? do you look at mom and say does she have it, i have a higher risk? there are two important risks everyone has to know about. the obvious one is age. beginning at age 65, about 3% are at risk of getting alzheimer s disease. but, tom, with each five years of age, that risk doubles. by the time you re 85, the risk is now 50%. the other risk is family history. if someone in your immediate family already has alzheimer s, your risk jumps between 4 and ten fold so you can t change your genes and you can t change your family. so you need to identify what other things could you do to protect yourself as you get older so that even if you had the ge