Dazed and Confused
As time goes on, my Alzheimer’s disease has slowly progressed. Confusion for me is an everyday thing when I first awake, especially if I wake up during a dream. A few days ago I...
Category: Alzheimer’s disease
Shingles vaccination appears to reduce risk of dementia
A very interesting paper published last week in Nature reports a 20% reduction in the risk of getting dementia for up to seven years after getting vaccinated against shingles (herpes-zoster) with a live virus vaccine (Zostavax)....
Xenon to the rescue?
Xenon is one of the noble gases. If you remember back to high school chemistry class, the noble gases are all on the right side of the periodic table in group 18: helium (atomic...
My favorite coffee shop and the tattoo on my brain
People who have not yet read my book, A Tattoo on My Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, sometimes ask me about the meaning of the title. In 2016, I volunteered for a randomized,...
The alcohol conundrum
There is no disagreement that excessive alcohol consumption is bad for the brain. A 2019 review found that heavy alcohol use in humans was universally associated with an increased risk of all-cause dementia and reduced grey...
Washington Post article
Today the Washington Post published my invited column titled “As a doctor, here’s what I have learned from my own Alzheimer’s disease.” I was really pleased with how it turned out. The editing was great,...
Talking about Alzheimer’s
Two weeks ago, Lois and I answered questions following a screening of the documentary film A Tattoo On My Brain at the Alzheimer’s Association McGinty Conference in Portland, Oregon. The audience consisted of about 400 people...
Tai chi may improve symptoms of mild cognitive impairment in the elderly
Two days ago, Halloween arrived at our house. It has been one of my favorite holidays since my own childhood, but now perhaps even more so, as we share in the excitement and joy...
Tattoo and the class of 1969 travel to Pasadena
Recently, I received an invitation to screen the documentary film A Tattoo On My Brain at my high school alma mater, Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. Poly has it roots in what was initially Throop University,...
In my opinion, people with two copies of the APOE-4 allele should not be given anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies
So far, three anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies have been approved in the US by the FDA for treatment of dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) caused by Alzheimer’s disease: aducanumab, lecanemab, and most recently donanemab....
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