title: A neurologist's perspective on the aging brain.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sacks
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans