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本期TED演讲者是位神经科学家及《依然爱丽丝》的作者Lisa Genova女士，她将和大家分享她的最新研究发现，原来预防老年痴呆还可以从一些最简单的事情着手去做，是什么事情呢？我们一同来揭晓。
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- Even before scientists sort this out, this information is actually really good news for us,
- 即使科学家还尚未解决问题，这一好消息确实振奋人心，
- because it turns out that the way we live can influence the accumulation of amyloid plaques.
- 因为这证明了我们的生活方式可以影响淀粉样斑块的积累。
- And so there are things we can do to keep us from reaching that tipping point.
- 我们可以做许多小事来避免达到临界点。
- Let's picture your risk of Alzheimer's as a see-saw scale.
- 不妨把患老年痴呆的风险比作天平。
- We're going to pile risk factors on one arm, and when that arm hits the floor, you are symptomatic and diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
- 把可能增加风险的因素放在一端，如果一端触到地面，那么你将患病。并被诊断为老年痴呆。
- Let's imagine you're 50 years old.
- 假设你已五十岁。
- You're not a spring chicken anymore, so you've accumulated some amyloid plaques with age. Your scale is tipped a little bit.
- 你已不再年轻，随年岁增长你已积累了部分淀粉样斑块。你的天平已经微微倾斜。
- Now let's look at your DNA. We've all inherited our genes from our moms and our dads.
- 现在观察一下你的DNA。我们的基因全部遗传自我们的父母。
- Some of these genes will increase our risk and some will decrease it.
- 一些基因会增加风险，还有一些会降低风险。
- If you're like Alice in "Still Alice," you've inherited a rare genetic mutation that cranks out amyloid beta,
- 如果你像《依然爱丽丝》中的爱丽丝一样，你遗传的一种罕见的基因突变，粗制滥造着β淀粉样蛋白，
- and this alone will tip your scale arm to the ground.
- 单单这一点就会使你的天平一端着地。
- But for most of us, the genes we inherit will only tip the arm a bit.
- 不过对于大多数人而言，该基因只会使天平稍稍倾斜。
- For example, APOE4 is a gene variant that increases amyloid,
- 举个例子，APOE4是一种增加淀粉样蛋白的变异基因，
- but you can inherit a copy of APOE4 from mom and dad and still never get Alzheimer's,
- 你可能会从父母那里遗传一份APOE4的基因，不过却不会患上老年痴呆，
- which means that for most of us, our DNA alone does not determine whether we get Alzheimer's.
- 这也就意味着对大多数人而言，我们的DNA并不是决定老年痴呆的唯一要素。
- So what does? We can't do anything about getting older or the genes we've inherited.
- 那么什么决定呢？我们对于衰老无能为力，也无法决定我们遗传的基因。
- So far, we haven't changed our brain's destiny.
- 到现在我们还没有改变我们大脑的宿命。
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