Why so much of what we know about dementia has changed | Chasing Life

As scientists make strides against dementia with new tests and drugs, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with journalist Robert Kolker about “The Vanishing Family,” his new book chronicling one family’s struggle with a particular form of the disease.

0:00 A tipping point in dementia research
5:15 One family’s medical mystery
7:23 Understanding frontotemporal dementia
10:48 How dementia tested the family
13:10 The difficult choice of genetic testing
15:26 Inheritance, parenthood and prevention
19:24 Rethinking plaques and tangles
22:46 The promise of personalized treatment
24:53 Testing, lifestyle and living with risk
32:25 Normal aging or signs of dementia?

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