# Deborah Kan

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How to Know When It's Time for More Dementia Care, According to a Long-Term Care Expert | Cory Fosco

For families caring for a loved one with dementia, deciding when home care is no longer enough is rarely simple. The signs are often gradual — a missed medication here, a stove left on there — and knowing when to seek more support, whether through in-home help, adult day care, or a residential comm…

What Is the Best Diet for Brain Health? | Dr. Gil Carvalho

What we eat can influence our health, but when it comes to protecting the brain and lowering dementia risk, nutrition advice can often feel confusing or contradictory. Which eating patterns have the strongest evidence behind them, and how much can diet really affect cognitive health over time?Dr. G…

Is Heading a Soccer Ball Bad for Your Brain? A CTE Researcher Explains

Does heading a soccer ball damage your brain? Dr. Michael Alosco — clinical neuropsychologist, professor of neurology at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and co-director of clinical research at the BU CTE Center — explains why chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) risk…

Four Years to Get a Memory Test: An Early-Onset Alzheimer's Diagnosis at 60 | Sean Terwilliger

For four years, doctors told Sean Terwilliger he was fine. At 60, after failing a memory screening by a single point, he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Terwilliger moved through three states and four primary care physicians before one finally gave him the MoCA, a 30-point cognitive scr…

What Is Posterior Cortical Atrophy? One Couple's Road to Diagnosis | Scott & Anne Cunningham

Posterior cortical atrophy is a rare form of Alzheimer's disease that shows up first in vision and spatial processing rather than memory — which is why it is so often missed. Scott Cunningham was a psychiatrist for 40 years. He couldn't cut a board straight. He couldn't assemble a log rack. He stop…

Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s at 46: Inherited Alzheimer’s and the PSEN1 Gene | Francisco Rios and Zahydie Burgos

Journey to Diagnosis is a Being Patient series sponsored by Eisai. As with all of our reporting, the sponsor has no role in choosing guests, shaping questions, or reviewing content before publication.Eisai: https://www.eisai.com/index.htmlJourney to Diagnosis: https://beingpatient.com/journey-to-di…

What a Normal Brain MRI Can Miss | Dr. Michael Lipton

A brain MRI that reads “normal” or “unremarkable” can be reassuring. It can also leave you with symptoms nobody can explain. Dr. Michael Lipton, professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an attending radiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian, explains what a conventional MR…

What Caring for Her Mother With Alzheimer's Taught Her About Her Own Diagnosis | Shon Lowe

When Shon Lowe started forgetting things — putting groceries in the cabinet instead of the refrigerator, resetting passwords she’d used for years — her primary care provider told her it was menopause. She knew it wasn’t. She had spent years caring for her mother, diagnosed with younger-onset Alzhei…

What Cholesterol Means for the Brain and Alzheimer’s Risk | Dr. Cheryl Wellington

This Live Talk is produced by Being Patient with support provided by NewAmsterdam Pharma. As with all of our reporting, the sponsor has no role in choosing guests, shaping questions, or reviewing content before publication.NewAmsterdam Pharma: https://spinoza.longboat.com/?lang=enMost people know t…

He Was Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder. It Was Corticobasal Degeneration. | Wendy Cogan and Dr. Ryan Townley

When Wendy Cogan first noticed changes in her husband Jeff’s behavior in 2016, she struggled to convince doctors that something was wrong. Once a successful healthcare executive, Jeff had begun making impulsive financial decisions, buying and selling houses and cars, and exhibiting behavior that wa…