Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Dementia is an umbrella term, which means that you've had so much brain atrophy that you cannot function independently.

And there are many different subtypes of dementia.

Could have vascular dementia, where many strokes cause dementia.

You can have alcohol-related dementia, where a bottle of vodka for 30 years shriveled your brain.

Or you can have Parkinson's-related dementia, frontotemporal dementia.

So there are, you know, like six, seven main types of dementia.

And Alzheimer's disease is a subtype of those dementias.

So you have age-associated memory impairment.

mild cognitive impairment, and let's just look at Alzheimer's, dementia.

Those are the different stages of cognitive decline.

We are at a revolutionary stage when it comes to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

I've been in this field for 30 years.

I've been teaching at Hopkins and Harvard.

I've seen thousands of patients.

I've participated in doing clinical trials.

I've looked at microscope slides.

This is my life.

This is my life.

And never have I been this excited in the past 30 years of being in this field, because for the first time, we can actually reverse the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Remember we talk about normal memory, age-associated memory impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and then Alzheimer's disease.