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What Is Vascular Dementia? Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. It occurs when damage to the brain's blood vessels disrupts blood flow, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients. It can develop after a stroke or from smaller blood vessel injuries…
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What Does Cholesterol Have to Do With Alzheimer’s? A Personal Look at ApoE4 and Brain Health
Deborah Kan is the founder and CEO of Being Patient, a journalism-driven news platform on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and brain health that she launched after her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and years as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. She built Being Patient to…
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Actor Patrick Stewart Dies, Following Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia Diagnosis
Sir Patrick Stewart died on Oct. 29 at 86 in his home in Los Angeles following a “brief and poignant” journey with two neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body dementia. Born in 1940 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, he developed a love for acting and left…
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What Caring for Her Mother With Alzheimer’s Taught Her About Her Own Diagnosis
Journey to Diagnosis is a Being Patient series sponsored by Eisai. As with all of our reporting, the sponsor has no role in choosing guests, shaping questions, or reviewing content before publication. When Shon Lowe began experiencing memory problems, her primary care provider…
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Observational Studies in Alzheimer’s: What You Need to Know
Coffee slashes dementia risk. Pain medication linked to Alzheimer’s. Getting exactly eight hours of sleep and 150 minutes of moderate exercise could protect your brain. Every week the news cycle churns out these kinds of headlines as they highlight the findings of observational…
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Subjective Cognitive Decline, an Early Window for Alzheimer’s Prevention and Treatment: A Physician’s Take
Dr. Nathaniel Chin, MD, is a geriatrician and memory-care physician at UW Health and an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Medicine. He serves as medical director and Clinical Core co-leader of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research…
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Understanding Posterior Cortical Atrophy: When Dementia First Affects Vision
Andrew Reid first noticed he was having trouble seeing his keyboard at work and struggled to write simple emails. When he’d come home at night, he’d start working again to make up for his mistakes. One day driving with his wife, Karina, and their kids, he zoned out at an…
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Finding Each Other: What You Told Us You Need From Being Patient
Deborah Kan is the founder and CEO of Being Patient, a journalism-driven news platform on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and brain health that she launched after her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and years as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. She built Being Patient to…
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How Music Can Help People With Dementia
As a young music therapy student in the 1970s, Concetta Tomaino had one of her first clinical placements in a nursing home. Some of the residents were in the end stages of dementia. They seemed unresponsive, unable to recognize the room they were in or the people around them.…
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How Quantitative MRI Reveals Brain Changes the Eye Can’t See
A brain MRI report that reads “normal” can be reassuring, but for people experiencing persistent neurological symptoms, it can also leave questions unanswered. A conventional MRI reveals what a radiologist can see with the naked eye, but many changes associated with memory…