There’s a hereditary typo in Doug Whitney’s genetic code: a variant that all but guarantees its carriers will contract Alzheimer’s disease within their lifetime….
Fourteen years ago, lawyer Sonia Vallabh took a genetic test that showed she would one day contract a fatal disease that ends in a…
Alzheimer’s disease affects one in 10 people over the age of 65 and one in three over the age of 85, and its global…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Michele Castro’s mother and brother both passed…
When Wendy Nelson, Ph.D., discovered that she carries two copies of Alzheimer’s genetic biomarker ApoE4, a gene variant associated with heightened Alzheimer’s risk, she…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, an editorially independent series produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. One day, young Andres…
As a college student, Marty Reiswig decided to take his girlfriend to a family reunion. After he noticed many of his relatives struggling with…