Where is She?
Music video by Kristine Theurer about a friend with Alzheimer's.

Darkness
An old man's wife is inflicted with alzheimer's disease. He visits her everyday hoping she'll remember.

Harper is Missing
From director Lee Citron comes the story of Mr. Harper, an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease, and circumstantial meanderings when he is found missing from his assisted living facility.

A Face of Alzheimers
My aunt Barb is in an Alzheimers facility. Her daughter, my mother, and another cousin and I all went to see her yesterday. My cousin gave her a haircut. She is having more difficulty with word finding now, but she was once the brightest, wittiest woman I knew. by Bev

David Hyde Pierce - An Advocacy Perspective
In addition to a successful acting career (tv show Frazier), Mr. Pierce has been an Alzheimer’s Association National Board Member since 1999. As a Board member he works with the Alzheimer’s Association in its dual mission to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families and caregivers. In this role, he works to create awareness and advocate for increased research funding.

Bruce Yankner, MD, PhD - The Aging Brain
Dr. Yankner, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, is an expert on the aging brain and Alzheimer’s disease. He discussed the genes that change as our brains age, why some of us age faster than others, and how this understanding is used in the search for drugs to preserve cognitive function and to keep diseases like Alzheimer’s at bay.

Dennis Selkoe, MD - Alzheimer’s Disease - Cause to Treatment
Dr. Selkoe is the Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is Co-Chair of the HCNR. An expert on Alzheimer’s disease and the molecular and cellular events that cause it, Dr. Selkoe discussed how a detailed understanding of the disease mechanism has led to exciting new approaches to Alzheimer's treatment that may be having some clinical benefit.

Peter Lansbury, PhD - Better Medicines, Faster
Dr. Lansbury is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is Chair of the HCNR’s drug discovery laboratory. A chemist and expert on the mechanisms behind brain diseases, Dr. Lansbury has a passion for drug discovery. He discussed reasons for the shortage of effective drugs to treat Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases, and what can be done to correct this shortfall.

Marilyn Albert, PhD - How to Maintain a Healthy Brain
Dr. Albert is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chair Emeritus, Medical and Scientific Council, National Alzheimer’s Association. Dr. Albert’s main areas of interest are disease- and age-related changes in brain function. She discussed this work and recent research on the question of what we can do to help delay age related changes and to maintain a healthy brain.

Keeping Your Brain Healthy
Exercise and supplements are ways to keep your brain healthy and hopefully prevent or slow the onset of Alzheimer's.

PetScan for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
PetScan can provide early detection of Alzheimer's and well as confirm the Alzheimer's diagnosis.

MRIs for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
MRI's can detect the start of Alzheimer's long before we see any symptoms.