For decades, dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, was treated as untouchable. Families watched loved ones fade, doctors could offer only reassurance and coping strategies, and research seemed to ...
"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...
That began to shift in the 1990s, when scientists identified the chemical imbalances in Alzheimer’s brains: lower levels of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter tied to memory, and glutamate ...