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Some of us will go beyond the level of the second twin, to what is known as mild cognitive impairment, and some all the way to dementia, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's. But most of us won't--and need not. "People used to think that senility was a normal part of aging," says Small, a professor of psychiatry and aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Now we see it's a disease. If we all lived long enough, we'd all get Alzheimer's disease if we did nothing about it." The good...
...recent research findings. The most striking are those showing that, where the brain is concerned, the familiar exhortation is right: use it or lose it. The Religious Orders Study, headed by Dr. David Bennett, director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, looked at 700 elderly, dementia-free Roman Catholic nuns, priests and brothers. Each was asked about time spent on various activities, among them viewing television; listening to the radio; reading newspapers, magazines and books; playing games such as cards and checkers; doing crossword puzzles; and going to museums...
...father of seven claims he has dementia and prostate cancer, and yesterday he gingerly took a seat in the witness box of the Superior Court after greeting his accused son with a kiss on the cheek. Michael mouthed the words "I love you." Skakel Senior said that he did recall driving home from a hunting trip after murder. "The house was full but I don't remember any of the names of the people who were there." In fact, he returned to a chaotic scene of police, reporters and lawyers. He had then instructed live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton...
...Rushton Skakel Senior, Michael's father, took the stand Wednesday. The elderly man has dementia and testified he remembered nothing of the events surrounding the murder. Margolis, also Rushton Senior's attorney, says his client's memory is "very, very poor." But while the Skakel father is unlikely to help the prosecution, other witnesses might. With up to a month still to go in the trial and the defense poised to make its case, Benedict appears to be saving his best until last. Michael Skakel is alleged to have boasted about killing Moxley in the late 1970s at a Maine...
...first entrance he sits on the front of the stage, his right arm in a sling—a physical disability that mirrors an internal one. His mission, to avenge the destruction of his family, emerges from a mind crippled by years in exile and already steeped in dementia...