Dementia Risk: What Can Be Changed? | Presentation Slides

Download the presentation slides and watch Dr. Atif Hashmi’s full guide to modifiable dementia risk and cognitive resilience.

These slides accompany my full-length presentation, Dementia Risk: What Can Be Changed? | A Neurologist’s Guide.

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The presentation looks at how blood pressure, cholesterol, metabolic health, movement, strength, nutrition, sleep, hearing, vision, mood, medications, and social connection may shape cognitive health over time. It also explains why these areas are often best addressed together.

You do not need to change everything at once. Use the slides to revisit the sections most relevant to you and choose one practical place to begin.

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Dementia Risk: What Can Be Changed? | A Neurologist’s Guide

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If you would like help translating this framework into priorities for your own health, you can learn more about the neurologist-led Cognitive Resilience Program.

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This presentation is for education and does not provide individualized medical advice or create a physician-patient relationship. Personal medical decisions should be discussed with clinicians who know your history.

The Sleep Evidence: Five Sleep Problems and What Each Means for Dementia.

Five sleep problems, what each one is linked to, and which ones are worth acting on. This is the summary post for the series, written to stand on its own.

The Sleep Evidence, Part 4: Does Treating a Sleep Disorder Lower Dementia Risk?

Apnea and insomnia can be treated, so does treating them protect the brain? Nobody has run the trial that would answer it. What exists is observational data pointing toward benefit and a handful of randomized trials that get cited as proof it fails, when most were never built to detect success.

The Sleep Evidence, Part 3: Sleep Apnea, Insomnia, and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Three sleep disorders, three different relationships to dementia. Apnea and insomnia are treatable conditions that wire into the brain's overnight clearance. REM sleep behavior disorder is not a habit or a risk factor at all, but an early sign of a disease already underway.

The Sleep Evidence, Part 2: Does Sleep Clear the Brain of Alzheimer's Proteins?

During deep sleep, the brain clears out metabolic waste, including the amyloid protein tied to Alzheimer's. It is one of the most compelling mechanisms in brain health, and one of the most overstated. Here is what the glymphatic system actually does, and what it cannot yet prove in people.