by Jimmy Carter | Jan 4, 2019 | Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Over the past few months we’ve been exploring Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, better known as CTE. Today we thought we’d back it up and start where these conditions often begin, concussion. The Concussion and CTE Relationship Medical researchers have definitively...
by Jimmy Carter | Nov 27, 2018 | Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
We’ve talked extensively here about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and the various causes. You can visit our blog here to read more posts on Alzheimer’s and ways researchers are trying to combat it. But for today, we want to focus on one area that we...
by Jimmy Carter | Nov 20, 2018 | Alzheimer’s, Dementia
As we reported here, on October 23rd Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor shared that she’s been diagnosed with the beginning stages of dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.” Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia, and the most common. But, her news...
by Jimmy Carter | Nov 13, 2018 | Alzheimer’s
Preventing dementia, before it takes hold, has become an area of growing focus for researchers in the Alzheimer’s and dementia fields. The Alzheimer’s Association initiated a new study this year entitled “Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to...
by Jimmy Carter | Nov 9, 2018 | Dementia
Recently, The Washington Post published an opinion column by Ann Norwich about our unpreparedness for the upcoming dementia crisis. She compared the odds of getting dementia to winning the big Powerball lottery last week. The chances of winning the lottery were 1 in...
