Aaron P. Nelson, PhD, chief of neuropsychology in the division of cognitive and behavioral neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. He is coauthor, with Susan Gilbert, of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory (McGraw-Hill).
With all the media coverage of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, it’s easy to imagine the worst every…