A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
Our vision appears to have a complicated relationship to dementia. Posterior cortical atrophy is a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease in which the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles first form in the back of...
Perhaps the biggest Alzheimer’s news in 2021 was the controversial FDA approval of the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody Aduhelm (aducanumab). Controversy surrounds the mixed results of two parallel phase 3 trials. Both trials showed efficacy at removing...
Among the lifestyle modifications that can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and slow its progression is adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet. The MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) is an amalgam of the...
After finishing my neurology training, I joined a group practice associated with Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. As part of the décor for my new office, I picked out several old photographs from the...
In 1999 my friend John and I took a week-long sailing course to qualify for bareboat chartering, renting a boat without hired captain and crew. The course took place in the waters of the...
A few days ago, my friend John Harland and I motored through the Columbia River Gorge on my mini tug, Lizzie G. In the Pacific Northwest and perhaps elsewhere there used to be a tradition...
I’ve always loved the Fourth of July. Fireworks were a big part of the holiday for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, we would usually spend most of the summer...
Yesterday my friend Henry and I hiked about 7 miles in and out on a segment of the Timberline Trail in the Mt. Hood Wilderness. The Timberline Trail is a 41.2-mile loop that circumnavigates...
Marcel Proust famously wrote in his semi-autobiographical novel Remembrance of Things Past published in 1913 how the smell and taste of a tea-soaked madeleine cake evoked the childhood memory of breakfast with his Aunt Léonie. The...
During the thirty-five years we have lived in Portland, Oregon, sightings of bald eagles have become much more common. The species is thriving. It is still a thrill to see one soaring over our house or...
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