People in their 50s and 60s are often working a job, perhaps in the prime of their career, and/or caring for their family. Some…
I would think of it as a Venn diagram, where you have two circles overlapping and the overlap would be extraordinary. The symptoms alone…
As part of our BrainTalk series, newscaster Genevieve Glass speaks with Dr. Michael Geschwind about the causes of rapidly progressive dementias — relatively uncommon…
At the age of 46, John Wood was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but it wasn’t until about a year later that his diagnosis was revised…
The behavioral changes associated dementia can be some of the most difficult symptoms to cope with. Compounding the challenge, a number of the drugs…
Roughly 2.4 million Americans experience symptoms of dementia-related psychosis, ranging from visual and auditory hallucinations, to paranoid delusions and mistrust of loved ones. While…
As part of our BrainTalk series, Being Patient spoke with Dr. Claudia Kawas, co-lead investigator of the 90+ Study, about the complex pathothologies of…
Yes, there are. ApoE is specific to Alzheimer’s disease because of ApoE’s association with the amyloid protein. The amyloid protein is the one that…
That’s a great question. I think in Alzheimer’s disease, the behavior may be quite normal for long periods of time, and in frontotemporal dementia,…
Absolutely, the answer is yes. When [scientists] focused in the ’80s and the ’90s on memory, we missed this story about language. And we…
In Alzheimer’s disease, the thought used to be that if you had amyloid in the brain, that you are not going to exhibit symptoms…
First and foremost, be aware that some dementias are more apathy producing. Vascular dementia and sometimes frontotemporal dementia have characteristics of losing passion or…
In the early stage it is extremely difficult to make an accurate diagnosis because so many symptoms can overlap between different dementias, but also…
Kaitlin Casaletto is a neuropsychologist and assistant professor at UCSF Memory and Aging Center where she studies the effects of regular physical and mental…
Benjamin Stecher was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 29. He has since become actively involved in Parkinson’s disease research and advocacy….