Countless times during my 35 years of studying and treating brain disease, I have sat across from patients who became gripped by the fear…
There is no single test available to diagnose Alzheimer’s. Instead, physicians rely on several diagnostic tools and medical criteria to ascertain whether a person…
A neurologist shares what patients and care partners should know about navigating the healthcare system. This is part one of a three-part series on…
Mild cognitive impairment: It sounds harmless enough, but hearing these words at the doctor’s office can send a patient into a tailspin in search…
When Jamie Tyrone found out that she has two copies of the ApoE4 gene nine years ago, greatly increasing her risk of developing Alzheimer’s,…
Scott Drevs, 52, doesn’t just feel it in his bones when winter is coming—he feels it in his brain. Drevs has frontotemporal dementia, a…
When Donald Trump aced a cognitive test in January, scores of people tried to take it, too, based mostly on media reports that invited them to…