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Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

Transient global amnesia: hours of repetitive questioning, memories evaporating as they land, then complete resolution. The sig...

NPH is the dementia mimic surgery can sometimes reverse — magnetic gait first, then bladder and cognition. The drainage trial t...

PMR seizes the shoulders and hips of people past sixty and melts before low-dose prednisone — then demands a year-long taper an...

Charles Bonnet syndrome — vivid hallucinations from vision loss, with insight intact — is common in the literature and unknown ...

The research on postoperative cognitive decline in older adults is substantial; the family-facing information is nearly nonexis...

Delirium strikes up to a third of hospitalized older adults, and families get no warning. What it is, the low-tech prevention p...