Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s, and Dementia
Monday, 27 January 2020
Any discussion of aging naturally brings us to one of the biggest paradoxes in modern science. We have essentially doubled life expectancy since 1900, when the mean duration of life was only 48 years, but we don’t know how to preserve brain function in our oldest patients, even if they are in optimal physical health.
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Men, Women, And Aging
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Men, Women, And Aging. Where Did I Leave My Keys? “He’s making me nuts” Julia runs her hands through her short gray hair. “He follows me around the house like one of those terrible little dogs. I can’t get anything done! Was he always this dense? It seems like I have to explain everything 40
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How We Treat Depression In Men And Women
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Men and women have different strategies to cope with depression, and their doctors should too. Contrary to what the drug companies would have you believe, there’s no magic “happy pill”. It’s not as easy for us to treat depression with medications as you might think. Many patients need trials on several different kinds of medicine
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Making the Best of a Tragedy
Friday, 17 January 2020
There is probably no more profound suffering in the spectrum of human experience than that occasioned by loss. In its aftermath, the very word can produce a feeling of anguish that is almost physically painful. Which of us on hearing it, does not recall a once present, now vanished person or thing – or even
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Why Men and Women Respond Differently to Stress – And Why It Matters
Thursday, 16 January 2020
I congratulated my patient Diane on being selected for a very prestigious Woman of Achievement award. Imagine my surprise when this very powerful, self-possessed executive dissolved into tears in my consulting room! Her accomplishments had come at some personal cost. The constant stress and competition had taken its toll on her sleeping habits and relationships.
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My brain is full of plaques and tangles: Do I have Alzheimer’s disease?
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
A high-powered 64-year-old attorney came to my office because he felt his memory was failing. He forgot clients’ names in mid-conversation and was losing track of important details at work. Although he seemed completely fine on my initial neurological examination, he underwent a several hours-long neurocognitive evaluation, the best way to evaluate cognition in high
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LOSERS, WEEPERS: SURVIVING LOSS
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
There is probably no more profound suffering in the spectrum of human experience than that occasioned by loss. In its aftermath, the very word can produce a feeling of anguish that is almost physically painful. Which of us on hearing it, does not recall a once present, now vanished person or thing – or even
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Difference Between The Way We Talk To Our Female Friends and The Way We Talk To Our Spouses
Monday, 13 January 2020
Keep It Simple Of course, there is a material difference between the way we talk to our female friends and the way we talk to our spouses; there has to be. I don’t have to go shopping with Anne, but couples are mutually involved and invested in domestic matters, including parenting, providing shelter for themselves
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Celebrating our forthcoming, most important Symposium
Thursday, 09 January 2020
We’re celebrating our forthcoming, most important Symposium “Sex, Gender, and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside” which will take place in Italy on July 3-5, 2020. This will be the first series of it’s kind, supported by the Menarini Group’s Foundation and will include world experts from 11 countries.
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Women Tend to Use a Lot of These Nonverbal Signs to Communicate
Thursday, 09 January 2020
Say What You Mean We know that men find it more difficult to decode nonverbal expressions than women do, especially those on the female face. Unfortunately, women tend to use a lot of these nonverbal signs to communicate. This can lead to a situation that both parties find very frustrating. You may feel that your
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