Dementia and Cognitive Decline - A Brief Overview

What’s the difference between normal aging and dementia? What is Alzheimer’s disease, and how do symptoms progress throughout the course of the disease? Corinne Pettigrew, PhD describes some of the differences between dementia and normal aging, and discusses Alzheimer's disease (the most common type of dementia), treatment implications by disease stage, and the different types of clinical research studies.
The Memory Matters Virtual Talk Series is organized by the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (www.alzresearch.org).