Word: dementia
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...treated with lithium long before anyone knew why it worked; now therapy is being fine-tuned with medications like the anticonvulsant Tegretol (carbamazepine) and drugs that ameliorate lithium's side effects. Debilitating panic attacks can be prevented with both antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Hyperactivity, addictive disorders, phobias, sleep disturbances, even dementia -- all are succumbing to the new science of the brain...
THEATER Finding all the laughs in dementia and leukemia...
...most intriguing character is actress Angie Nous (Mo Rocca '91), a leftover from the Roaring Twenties, who smokes from a three-foot-long cigarette holder and resembles Norma Desmond from the movie Sunset Boulevard. Rocca's portrayal of Angie's dementia is the histrionic highlight of the show...
...sick live with their parents, whose average age is now between 50 and 60. When they die, many of their troubled children will land on the street. Baby boomers are moving through their 30s, the vulnerable years for late-onset schizophrenia. Moreover, the number of people with dementia as a result of AIDS is expected to increase dramatically...
...Having been accused by John Soto of dementia is like being accused by Rosanne Barr of being fat," Frank says. "It's extraordinarily stupid...