Posts Tagged ‘cause’

In the 1964 comedy, The Disorderly Orderly, the hospital orderly Jerome Littlefield (played by Jerry Lewis) had a serious problem. Every day that he came to work at the hospital, sick people surrounded Jerome. His problem was that he suffered an extreme case of hypochondria!

So every time someone (usually an elderly person) described in detail the symptoms of their illness or condition, Jerome imagined himself contracting their ailments! At the time, only an uninhibited actor like Jerry Lewis could …

There are two types of people with memory loss in this world, according to Dr. Saunders: the people who know and the people that don’t know. The people that don’t know are in a particularly concerning position because memory loss is an indicator that there’s something else wrong with the brain, whether it’s short-term or long-term.

While long-term memory loss is often associated with older people—the number of people in the world with age-related memory loss is …