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The
Heart Of The Matter
Alzheimer’s Association Newsletter
Robert E. Reichlin, Ph.D.
Winter,
2004
We all know
that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic,
progressive, terminal brain disease. It happens
inside someone’s head and causes amyloid
plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuronal
death.
But is AD only a disease of the brain? Or, putting
it another way- is that the best way to characterize
this disease?
I think that AD is really about the heart, not
the brain. I say this fully knowing that in the
highly medicalized approach that we take toward
AD, it seems unlikely that the disease could be
about something other than the brain. But, that’s
the funny thing about AD. Just when you think
you understand what’s happening, something
unexpected occurs. |
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Awards
Speech
Harry E. Walker Award
Alzheimer's Association, Houston and Southeast
Texas Chapter
Robert E. Reichlin, Ph.D.
2004
It is with great pride that
I receive this award from the Alzheimer’s
Association.
I would like to share with you some thoughts tonight
as a way of saying thank you.
One way to think about the Alzheimer’s Association
is that one of its functions is to tell a certain
kind of story about Alzheimer’s disease.
This story is what social scientists call an illness
story. Let me tell you a little about this because
I think you will find- as I did- that this way
of thinking about AD is helpful.
There are 3
generic illness stories . . .
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Feelings
of Loss Expressed Through Art
by John Tyler
Baylor
College of Medicine
Texas Medical Center News
Vol. 24, No. 12
July 1, 2002
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a Baylor
College of Medicine researcher could fill volumes
about the emotional challenges encountered by Alzheimer’s
disease patients and their families.
Patients draw their experiences with Alzheimer’s,
sometimes with dramatic results, as part of a unique
support group for those suffering with the early
stages of the disease, said Robert
E. Reichlin, Ph.D., clinical instructor
in Baylor’s department of medicine-geriatrics.
Reichlin
said that to his knowledge he is the only clinician
in the United States doing this type of exercise
with Alzheimer’s patients. |
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