Dr. Majid Fotuhi

You need to have a multidisciplinary approach to prevent heart attacks and if somebody has a heart disease to make them get better.

Same principles apply to the brain.

There are three stages in cognitive decline as people get older.

There's a stage called age-associated memory impairment.

This is when you forget your keys, you may miss an appointment, you send someone an email and you don't remember that you sent that email, or you were in a meeting and you said something and people took notes and you don't remember saying that.

These are the things that can happen as people grow older.

And there are usually very easy fixes for them.

It could be lack of sleep.

It could be working too much.

It could be tiredness.

Not everybody who has memory problems has Alzheimer's disease.

So this is age-associated memory impairment.

It's very common and it's often fixable with minor things.

And, you know, forgetting your keys, going to a garage, not knowing why you went there are so common that I look at them like gray hair.

It is what it is.

It could be something going on, but the mistake that people make, the biggest mistake people make is to think it's Alzheimer's disease.

See, I cured a lot of people with Alzheimer's disease because they came to me thinking they have Alzheimer's disease and they had depression.

And I fixed their depression and their Alzheimer's disease went away.

I didn't fix their Alzheimer's disease.

They thought they had Alzheimer's disease.