“I just know that my brain’s not right,” said Carrie Richardson, 44. “And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal.” At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The condition is caused by rare genetic mutations that essentially guarantee a person will develop the disease. Her mother, Mary Salter, of Montgomery, Alabama,…
Recent studies have shown new antibody drugs to slow cognitive decline among people with early-onset Alzheimer’s – a critical finding, given that the disease as of now has no cure. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook visits Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, which is conducting important research into treating the…
In this web exclusive, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about backing research into Alzheimer’s, a disease which affected his own father. Source link
MIT Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia” (MIT Press), photographer Joe Wallace has chronicled the stories of families who have lived with Alzheimer’s. Among them: Carrie Richardson, now 44, whose family carries the PSEN1 gene, making…
