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The Quiet Epidemic

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

One in ten of the old people in the United Kingdom suffers from dementia - a progressive disease of the brain that causes erosion of personality and eventually leads to death.
Richard Fisher examines the biological nature of the dementias and investigates the effects they induce in the brains of the sufferers.
Contributors include PRO
FESSORS THOMAS ARIE , ALAN DAVISON , A. N. EXTON-SMITH , J. A. N. CORSELLIS and DR W. A. LISHMAN
Producer DAVID PATERSON
(First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

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Richard Fisher
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Fessors Thomas Arie
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Alan Davison
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A. N. Exton-Smith
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J. A. N. Corsellis
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Dr W. A. Lishman
Producer:
David Paterson
Source: Radio Times

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