early-onset alzheimer's

Health & Safety
National

His genes forecast Alzheimer's. His brain had other plans.

9:17am February 12, 2025

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.

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Even though the sisters hope a successful drug treatment for their family's form of dementia will emerge, they're now planning for a future without one. "There's a kind of sorrow about Alzheimer's disease that, as strange as it seems, there's a comfort in being in the presence of people who understand it," Ward says.

Health & Safety
Science

With early Alzheimer's in the family, these sisters decided to test for the gene

5:00am September 12, 2022

by Jon Hamilton

For some people, a rare genetic mutation makes dementia inescapable. Three sisters have decided to confront fate with a genetic test and have joined a research project on possible treatments.