A physician colleague of mine at a Boston hospital recently criticized me for diagnosing and treating her patient. “Wouldn’t it have been better to not tell him?” she said. “Wouldn’t it be better not to make him worried and depressed about having Alzheimer’s disease?” On the one hand, I was outraged. As a cognitive behavioral neurologist I have spent my life diagnosing and treating people with Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of memory loss and dementia. But as I thought more about it, I realized that many physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals may not know the reasons as to why it is worthwhile to diagnose and treat memory disorders. Here are seven reasons as to why one should diagnose and treat individuals with memory loss. MORE

Dr. David Preston is Associate Professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Director of Neuromuscular Service at the University Hospital of Cleveland. His new book published earlier this year, Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders, 3rd Edition, fills a need for neurology physicians, residents and students. Watch as Dr. Preston discusses his bookMORE

In Dr. John Kenny’s latest installment of videos from The Doctor’s Channel, he discusses the results from a new study by the American Journal of Psychiatry. This study shows increased rates of morbidity and mortality in schizophrenia patients – men who suffer from schizophrenia die 14 years earlier than the general population, and women 12MORE

John Kenny, MD is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City and co-author of Psychiatry Test Preparation and Review Manual. In this video by The Doctor’s Channel, Dr. Kenny discusses the complexity of matching antipsychotic medications – both typical and atypical – to eachMORE