Solve this puzzle to save your brain
Any time we hear news about dementia, it’s rarely good. There are currently 450 000 people in Australia living with dementia and this number is increasing by 250 people every day. But this does [...]
Dental floss = mental floss
How can flossing your teeth reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease? Samantha Brett and Ryan Phelan from Channel 7’s The Daily Edition asked Dr Helena to provide some answers. Here is a [...]
There’s more to music than meets the ear
Following last week’s Health-e-Byte I received a lot of questions about the benefits of music in conditions other than dementia and Parkinson’s disease. It turns out that medicine may need to [...]
Let music be your medicine
Listening to music always prompted my father to tell stories about significant events in his life – the first opera his mother took him to see when he was 8 years old; dining out with Mum [...]
Alzheimer’s breakthrough
Dr Helena interviewed on the Daily Edition about a blood test that can predict Alzheimer’s disease decades before any symptoms appear.
The difference between dementia and normal ageing
Tim and Brigitte Duclos chat to their favourite Doc about how to detect the difference between dementia and normal ageing.
Warning Signs of Dementia
Helena Popovic interviewed on The Daily Edition about the early warning signs of dementia.
What can we do to prevent dementia?
Jo Abi and Ricardo speak to Dr Helena Popovic to find out how we can all reduce our risk of getting dementia.
In search of my father – 4BC 1116 mornings with Gina Baker
4BC Mornings: Dr Helena Popovic is a medical doctor and author of In Search of My Father. She speaks to Greg about what she discovered while caring for her father with dementia. She says we can [...]
