Category: Neurodegeneration
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Artice 3 of 3 We began this series with Carol — a 54-year-old woman in Ashland whose quiet cognitive changes were dismissed as normal aging. We showed you why they probably aren’t. We showed you that Alzheimer’s is, for women, a midlife disease that begins silently in the brain years before any test currently standard…
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Article 2 0f 3 In Article One, we met Carol — a healthy 54-year-old woman in Ashland whose subtle cognitive changes were dismissed as normal aging. We introduced the science showing that Alzheimer’s is in many ways a midlife disease for women, and that the hormonal transition of menopause may be a central driver of…
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Article 1 of 3 Meet Carol. Carol is 54 years old. She lives in Ashland, hikes the Siskiyou Mountains on weekends, volunteers at the food bank on Thursdays, and raised three children. She is, by every measure her doctor uses, healthy. But something is off. She has noticed it for about two years. Words slip…
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Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating form of dementia, afflicted an estimated 6.2 million Americans in 2021. With our aging population, prevalence is projected to soar in the coming decades unless we find better ways to prevent and treat this neurodegenerative condition. Conventional therapies have had limited success in slowing mental decline once Alzheimer’s takes hold. We…
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Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating form of dementia, afflicted an estimated 6.2 million Americans in 2021. With our aging population, prevalence is projected to soar in the coming decades unless we find better ways to prevent and treat this neurodegenerative condition. Conventional therapies have had limited success in slowing mental decline once Alzheimer’s takes hold. We…