When Rev. Dr. Cynthia Huling Hummel was first diagnosed with amnestic cognitive impairment (aMCI) and had to leave her role as a pastor in…
When Doreen Monks first started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, she was working as a neuroscience nurse practitioner. While she was having problems managing…
Before her diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early-stage Alzheimer’s in 2019, Rebecca Chopp was a widely published author, editor, and academic, serving as…
Biogen and Eisai’s monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s — Aduhelm (now off the market) and Leqembi (fully approved by the FDA in 2023) —…
The process of finding new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is one of trial and error — and every “failed” trial generates invaluable new data…
Lewy body dementia is one of the most common forms of dementia. Estimated to make up almost 20 percent of dementia cases worldwide, the…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Michele Castro’s mother and brother both passed…
Before an Alzheimer’s or another dementia diagnosis, many patients get a diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). As Marwan Sabbagh explained in a recent…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Despite being underrepresented in clinical trials, Latinos…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. With reports of clinical trials not being…
Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia. Where Alzheimer’s disease makes up 70 percent of dementia cases, Lewy body makes…
Lewy Body dementia is the second most common form of dementia, but one of the most frequently misdiagnosed. One thing that makes LBD just…
After 30 hours of neurological and psychiatric evaluations, Laurie Scherrer thought the fifth in a series of doctors, would tell her that she had…
When author and academic Rebecca Chopp went to her yearly physical in 2019, she wasn’t expecting to learn that she has Alzheimer’s. In fact,…
When Wendy Nelson, Ph.D., discovered that she carries two copies of Alzheimer’s genetic biomarker ApoE4, a gene variant associated with heightened Alzheimer’s risk, she…