Rahul Sidhu - My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist
About this episode
Rahul Sidhu shares a personal narrative about his grandad's experience with dementia and its impact on his journey to becoming a neuroscientist.
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Rahul is a regular Dementia Researcher blogger, usually writing about life as a PhD student and his work on heart disease and dementia. This time he goes back further, to his grandad, who lived with vascular dementia through Rahul's teenage years and died in 2019. Rahul describes the man his grandad was before dementia, a doctor who survived Partition and rebuilt his life in England, then walks through how the disease changed him, the family's decision to move him into a nursing home, and the stigma around dementia that he says still exists in many South Asian communities including his own. Worth reading whenever the day-to-day of research starts to feel disconnected from why you started it. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-my-grandads-story-why-i-became-a-neuroscientist/ -- Rahul Sidhu is a PhD student at The University of Sheffield, focusing on the effects of heart disease on dementia in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease. His research aims to uncover how cardiovascular health influences neurodegenerative conditions, potentially leading to novel therapeutic strategies. Find Rahul on LinkedIn…
People in this episode
Guest: Rahul Sidhu
Topics covered
- neuroscience
- dementia
- personal story
- PhD journey
- South Asian communities
- heart disease
Keywords
- dementia
- neuroscience
- PhD student
- heart disease
- vascular dementia
- South Asian stigma
- personal narrative
Sponsors
University College London, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dementia Researcher
Places: England
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