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Aberrations such as these mark the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the insidious and heart-breaking malady of advancing age. The memory lapses, confusion and dementia inevitably get worse. The intelligent and athletic Mrs. Holmes, now 65, forgot how to cook: she set a chicken ablaze by trying to roast it over all four burners of her stove. She also forgot how to play tennis and ultimately she had trouble recognizing her friends. Once an active Y.M.C.A. employee, Tony Marzillo, 61, gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing...
Alzheimer's disease was first identified in 1906 by German Physician Alois Alzheimer. His patient, a 51-year-old woman, suffered loss of memory, disorientation and later, severe dementia. After her death, Alzheimer conducted an autopsy on her brain and found the two distinctive characteristics of the disease: tangled clumps of nerve fibers and patches of disintegrated nerve-cell branches. Because Alzheimer's patient was relatively young, AD was at first considered a disease of middle age; similar symptoms in elderly people were simply regarded as a natural consequence of aging. Today this view has been discarded. Even...
...approximated by a careful process of elimination. Through CAT scanning and other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests are negative, AD is diagnosed by default. This conclusion may be further verified with psychological tests...
...story on capital punishment. The son and grandson of lawyers, Andersen inherited an interest that he cultivated at Harvard by studying the history of rebellion. "Somehow," he says, "I am drawn to issues of crime and punishment. I seem to have a propensity for writing on death, disaster and dementia...
...mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down the Alps of dementia, as it did in Despair; and Fassbinder would watch, and show. He was a camera-one that hummed relentlessly until the end. More than a dozen Fassbinder films still await U.S. release...