A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease

Daniel Gibbs; Teresa H. Barker

doi:10.1017/9781009330961

A Tattoo on my Brain

A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease

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Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University, Teresa H. Barker, Freelance journalist and author of scientific non-fiction

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2022
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009330961
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009330961

Subjects:: Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychiatry

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Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer's several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer's. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man's journey with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Soon to be a documentary film on MTV/Paramount +.

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