Brain Maps and Childhood Trauma - what they have to do with Alzheimer's. Uncommon tests you can do to assess your risk with David Merril

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This week's guest is Dr David Merrill MD, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Dr Merrill is an active proponent of prevention of Alzheimer's and an expert in many areas relating to this.

Quantitative Electroecephalography - AKA: qEEG - and structural MRI are two technologies that are widely available. Dr Merrill explains how they can be used to assess if you have brain wave or structure changes that look like impending dementia.

qEEG essentially creates a map of the function and electrical activity of many of the parts of your brain. These maps can also give you an indication of how "efficiently" your brain is connected. Dr Merrill talks about the signatures that distinguish depression and cognitive impairment or dementia including Peak alpha frequency interpretation (

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