Juan Fortea, MD, PhD

Juan Fortea, MD, PhD, is a behavioral neurologist, researcher and dementia expert with the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, where he leads the Memory Unit, He is also founding director of the Alzheimer-Down unit at the Catalan Foundation for Down Syndrome (FCSD), also in Barcelona, and coauthor of the study “APOE4 homozygosity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease” published in Nature Medicine. SantpauMemoryUnit.com

 

Is Dementia Hereditary?
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Is Dementia Hereditary?

Juan Fortea, MD, PhD | December 20, 2024

One of our greatest concerns as we age is our risk for dementia, a severe decline in cognitive function. So…