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Bob Bilder

Robert "Bob" Bilder, PhD, ABPP-CN — UCLA neuropsychologist, Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Chief of Medical Psychology–Neuropsychology at the Semel Institute.

Oct 1, 2026

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough with Dr. Josh Helman, MD

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough with Dr. Josh Helman, MD

Do You Really Need a Brain Scan When Memory Starts to Slip? | Dr. Bob Bilder, PhD #83

Oct 1 · 47m

Josh Helman
Josh HelmanHOST
25:11
[laughs]
Bob BilderGUEST
25:11
Um, so yeah, yeah, the brain does a really great job of discriminating between the things that are really useful for you cognitively and things that you don't need to worry about.
Bob BilderGUEST
25:22
Um, and um, yeah, it's that ability to separate what's, um, salient or important from what's not important that enables memory to occur.
Bob BilderGUEST
25:32
Indeed, some of the, um, people, uh...
Bob BilderGUEST
25:34
Oh yeah, this is great.
Bob BilderGUEST
25:35
We're gonna help a lot of people at their cocktail parties talk about the brain, 'cause the hippocampus people have heard of.
Bob BilderGUEST
25:41
Hippocampus, by the way, you know, is the, the word for seahorse.
Josh Helman
Josh HelmanHOST
28:45
So I've noticed patients with dementia, it's, it can be emotionally overloading just, just from, from that standpoint.

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