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Podcast: Eat Move Think
Episode: Cognition Cures: In Life & In the Lab
Description: Studying the brain has never been an easy feat. Researchers haven't had steady access to growing human brain tissue—until now. The team at Sunnybrook's Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program is making impressive progress with the help of their lab-grown organoids, which mimic living human neurons and allow scientists to more accurately study the way different conditions affect the brain. Here, Dr. Peter Nord explores how this advancement could change the way we understand Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and how your lifestyle choices might affect whether or not you actually develop a cognitive disease. He's joined by...