Before being diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s in his early 50s, Jeff Borghoff received several misdiagnoses from different doctors and was even put on medication…
As a college student, Marty Reiswig decided to take his girlfriend to a family reunion. After he noticed many of his relatives struggling with…
Dr. Francisco Lopera was a young medical resident in Antioquia, Colombia when he encountered his first familial Alzheimer’s patient in the mid 1980s. The…
With the rise of genetic testing, many people wonder about their genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. Carrying two copies of the ApoE4 gene could increase…
I know firsthand the difficult balance of caring for yourself and an ailing parent. My father was 57 years old when he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. I was a few month’s shy of thirty.
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Expert Opinion: Who Should Get A Genetic Test for Alzheimer’s Disease? Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is becoming more common as people opt to understand how…
The number of people with early onset Alzheimer’s is predicted to rise by 20 percent over the next four decades, with more than 50,000…