Reaching Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients

June 29, 2012 In a perfect world, we’d eat blueberries for breakfast, savor a glass of wine and salmon for dinner, power walk three times per week, take up yoga, join a bridge club and fend off Alzheimer’s disease. But this is the real world. Given that prevention does not guarantee protection and many don’t…

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Getting Ahead of Dementia

June 15, 2012 At age 50, Harvard professor Alice Howland is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. In a relatively short time her world unravels as her memory fails her and she is unable to lecture, advise students or go for unsupervised runs. Alice is the protagonist in “Still Alice,” a New York Times bestseller by Lisa…

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