June is Alzehimer’s and brain Awareness Month. As told to Nicole Audrey Spector “Why would you donate your brain to science?” It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot since I decided to, well, donate my brain to science. The answer? It begins with love. In my case, it’s my love for the 13 women… Read More »
Painting Gave Me a Precious World All My Own While Caregiving for My Husband with Alzheimer’s Disease
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector I knew my husband, Bob, had Alzheimer’s disease before anyone else did, including Bob. He was only 65 years old, but he had some of the telltale symptoms, including forgetfulness and absentmindedness, which were highly unusual for him. Bob was whip smart and incredibly high-functioning, a former journalist. But… Read More »
Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?
In November of 1901, a young German psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, found what appeared to be misfolded proteins forming sticky clumps, or plaques, between the neurons in the brain tissue of a patient who had died from dementia. Inside the neurons he found threadlike twists, called neurofibrillary tangles, of another protein. Eventually these plaques and… Read More »
