Experts by experience…

One long poem.. It’s so great to know everything and even after years of diagnoses lacking in investigations and not finding genetic malformations or real diseases changing life from one of health to pain and malfunctioning always told the same thing there is nothing wrong with you other than you are a type A personality or going through a stressful…

Imagine losing all of your memories…

Memories are a large part of our identity… Imagine losing all of yours. Recently I published a TED talk about false memories, and although I’ve not yet had the time or brain energy to process it completely, it might be of value to consider the impact of false memories on dementia, good or bad. One of these…

Confusion, frustration and dementia

Confusion is one of the more significant features of dementia, especially in the elderly, and can be identified as physiological or situational. Physiological causes can be linked to some of the processes of aging; as blood vessels change and the blood vessels harden, insufficient amounts of oxygen and nourishment pass through to the brain. These…