A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
Over the last ten years or so, there have been an increasing number of studies that generally agree that those who regularly consume a plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet, are less likely to get Alzheimer’s dementia...
Amazing as it might seem, Viacom recently bought the film rights to my book, A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. Production of a planned 40-minute documentary is already underway....
We know that the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease can be found in the brain years before the onset of noticeable cognitive impairment. The beta-amyloid plaques start to appear as much as 20 years before...
All of the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies currently approved (Aduhelm) or in phase 3 clinical trials (donanemab, lecanumab, and gantenerumab) are effective at removing beta-amyloid from the brain, but effects so far on slowing cognitive...
Depression and loneliness are common among people with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, and a recent paper in Neurology suggests that loneliness may actually increase the chance of getting dementia. This was a retrospective analysis of data collected...
In 2015, the late Dr. Martha Clare Morris and her colleagues at Rush University published their first paper on the effects of following the MIND diet on risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. The MIND...
As I describe in Tattoo, my first symptom of Alzheimer’s occurred over fifteen years ago when I first noticed a decrease in my ability to smell and then began to have episodes of illusory odors...
Music has been an important part of my life, almost from the beginning. My mother was a very good, amateur pianist, and I have early memories of trying to emulate her playing. By age...
Abnormal tau protein found in neurofibrillary tangles can be found in the brain at least several years before the onset of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Now a fascinating Dutch study of 78 cognitively normal,...
Wendy Mitchell, in her wonderful book Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir, tells of her frustration when asking her supervisors in the UK National Health Service for accommodation for her early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Wendy...
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