A neurologist's perspective on the aging brain
O. Sacks
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
I have worked as a neurologist in old age homes and chronic hospitals for
30 years, and over this period I have seen thousands of older patients with
dementias and other degenerative neurological syndromes. A high proportion
of these patients have steadily and sometimes rapidly advancing dementias
of the type we now tend to call Alzheimer disease (AD) (although this term
was used in a much narrower sense when I started seeing such patients in
the mid-sixties).
