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Alzheimer’s Early Signs: Does Forgetting a Name or Word Mean I Have Dementia?

By Laurie Archbald-Pannone | May 10th, 2021

Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics at the University of Virginia, explores the difference between normal memory loss and more severe cognitive…

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Money Management Gets Harder With Age—What to Do About It

By Nicholas Chan | March 26th, 2021

In part 1 of Being Patient’s series about finances, aging and brain health, we explored how dementia can affect money management. In the second…

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Epigenetics and Alzheimer’s: A Conversation with Raffaella Nativio

By Nicholas Chan | October 12th, 2020

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…

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‘The Oldest-Old Have a Lot to Teach Us:’ Here’s How Some 90+ Year-Olds May Avoid Dementia

By Phil Gutis | July 22nd, 2020

With more of us living into our 90s and beyond, researchers have long been curious about why (and how) some “super seniors” manage to…

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