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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