Researchers Explore New Technologies, Treatments for Dementia Patients

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PBS Online News Hour


RAY SUAREZ: Now, diagnosing and treating dementia. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports for our Health Unit, a partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
SPENCER MICHELS, NewsHour correspondent: Keith Jordan, an environmental activist and software innovator -- shown here several years ago -- suffered from an often misdiagnosed neurological condition that attacks the front part of the brain and produces very strange behavior. Doctors say the condition is more common than previously thought.
Eventually Jordan's brain atrophied....read all about it