SciShow Psych | Why Can't We Figure Out What Causes Chemo Brain?

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Episode Title: Why Can't We Figure Out What Causes Chemo Brain?
Produced by: SciShow Psych
Description: Chemotherapy can make patients much more forgetful than normal, but pinning down the cause of and solution to this phenomenon is an ongoing process. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4898927/ https://academic.oup.com/jncimono/article/2015/51/67/948666\ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10715760500143478 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.20393 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc2073 https://academic.oup.com/annonc/article/19/4/623/217836 http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC3329763&blobtype=pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23660455 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304329557_The_Role_of_Oxidative_Stress_in_Etiopathogenesis_of_Chemotherapy_Induced_Cognitive_Impairment_CICI-Chemobrain https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15384101.2017.1334022?needAccess=true https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191866 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varian4T.jpg


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