Lifestyle changes can lower our dementia risk. Dr. Eric Larson, senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, dives into the science to…
As part of our LiveTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Dr. Jason Karlawish about the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and why it’s important for…
Less than a year after Seth Rogen and his now wife, Lauren Miller Rogen started dating, Lauren’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Since…
At the National Alzheimer’s Summit, experts stressed that it is possible for people to reduce their risk of developing dementia by making certain lifestyle…
A recent study found that constant uncontrollable worry — what cognitive scientists call repetitive negative thinking — may be a factor in the aggregation…
I’ll give some background information about the kind of research that we’ve been doing for the past 15 or 20 years. Neuroinflammation is the…
It’s a degenerative brain disease. There are four stages of CTE and Grant, my husband, had stage 3. My husband was an alcoholic, so…
This is off of the Mayo Clinic so anyone can get it, but essentially the first noticeable symptom was short term memory loss. Grant,…
I know that they can’t tell if you have CTE living until they test for the pathology but I do think that since we…
White wines are also made from the same red grapes; they’re just taken off the fermentation process a bit earlier, so they don’t pull…
Activities like smoking and excess alcohol use would be high up on the list for increasing your risk of dementia. Not exercising, eating a…
Consistent research has shown that people who consume very moderate levels of alcohol, from anywhere above zero drinks per week up to about seven…
Cyndy Feasel, the widow of a former NFL player, says that she believes her husband Grant’s struggle with alcoholism triggered his depression, agitation and…
A new study found that PTSD increases dementia risk by 61 percent — findings that are especially pertinent for soldiers and veterans, and new…
Alzheimer’s main hallmarks — beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles — have long been the focus of the quest to come up with an Alzheimer’s…