Beyond Alzheimer's

Recommended QUEST Resources

• Reporter's Notes: Beyond Alzheimer's

  This is the second of two stories born out of an afternoon at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center, where a team of scientists, led by Dr. Bruce Miller, is trying to tease out the differences between as many as 200 dementias that affect aging brains.
  
  Read more of reporter Amy Standen's post on the QUEST Science Blog.

• Alzheimer's: Is the Cure in the Genes?

  By 2050, as our population ages, 15 million Americans will suffer from Alzheimer's disease-- triple today's number. Researchers at San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes have found that a gene may hold the key to a cure.

• Web Extra: Dementia and Artistic Renaissance

  Frontotemporal dementia occurs when parts of the brain atrophy, causing marked personality changes. Some patients lose the ability to read other people's facial expressions. Others have trouble with language. Sometimes FTD also brings a new interest in art. In this slideshow, Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, shows us some artwork from FTD patients and explains what it suggests about the disease.

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• UCSF's Memory And Aging Center

  UCSF's Memory And Aging Center is one of a handful of research institutions across the country doing groundbreaking research on frontotemporal dementia.