When it comes to dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, memory gets a bad rap. Memory loss is usually everyone’s biggest complaint- forgetting things, repeating things, losing things. And although memory loss is frustrating and memory seems to be the cognitive function ...

Sound Familiar? You are 50 years old and struggling with things that have always been easy.  You are pretty good at hiding your memory slip-ups: the names you can’t remember, the meeting action items you never followed through on, the ...

… Nobody likes hypotheticals, especially the real-life kind that play out beyond the laboratory microscopes and petri dishes. And I hate to be a Debbie-Downer, but after billions of dollars and hundreds of single-therapeutic drug failures, at some point you’ve ...

I was a young mother with two small kids and dated minivan. My husband, a police officer, worked the night shift and slept most of the day. I would try to leave the house with the kids each morning and ...

  Hello everyone, As many of you know, I have been writing this blog for over 6 years.  It began as a home for my thoughts and ideas on Alzheimer’s and dementia, an extension of my identity as “The Dementia Queen” ...