A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
On July 22, 2021 I posted an essay about the first patient diagnosed with what we now call Alzheimer’s disease. Auguste Deter first came under the care of Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuropathologist,...
While doing a genetic genealogical search in 2012, I inadvertently discovered that I have two copies of the APOE-4 allele putting me at very high risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia. However, as a neurologist,...
A few days ago, the proofs of my new book Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s arrived. The book is a collection of my essays about Alzheimer’s disease written over the last several years. Many of...
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