Neurodegenerative Diseases — Kevin Talbot / Serious Science

Professor of Neurology Kevin Talbot on genome editing in neurodegenerative diseases, their genetic causes and different types of Parkinsonism

"What we mean by neurodegeneration is that the nervous system evolves and develops normally in an individual, and at some point in their life it begins to fail in a series of rather characteristic ways."
Kevin Talbot Professor of Neurology, University of Oxford

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[gellis]

Professor Talbot said so much so quickly that I'm left worrying that I'm suffering from a neurodegenerative brain disease.

[moiragoldsmith]

I'm very much an ignoramus, but over the past 100 yrs our eating habits have been swayed to eat veg oil ( engine fuel) and overly processed carbs. What if the myelin sheath prefers Saturated fats and too much sugar/ carb consumption is interfering with synapses? (Predestined genetic disorders apart). This explosion of brain disorders has to have a common denominator somehow. Thanks for this interesting interview.

[RedcoatsReturn]

Ok, very competent and honest lecture, well done. However....its shocking...how very little we understand about neurodegeneracy and ageing. What has the medical World been doing over the last 50 years? Its pathetic, ....we are effectively in the dark ages! Any therapy is decades away, maybe another 50 years. I can only hope gene therapy will bulldose its way into treatment one day.