John C. Morris
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Washington University School of Medicine professor John C. Morris directs the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in St. Louis.
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Monday September 03, 2007
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Why do Alzheimer's patients remember certain things and forget others?
Answer - Alzheimer's disease affects recent memories first. The retention of new information is most affected, while recollections of things that happened in the past are much more resistant. The loss of recent events is often one of the first, if not the first, symptom of the disease.
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Monday August 27, 2007
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Is it common for Alzheimer's patients to have good and bad days with their memory?
Answer - In early Alzheimer's, your mother may have both good days when she seems like her old self, and bad days when she's very forgetful or confused. As professionals, we don't always know the reasons why. Everybody with Alzheimer's is different. It could be partly because of a medication, but typically, it's the stress of "newness...
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