is professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD

How can you keep your brain healthy in an unhealthy society? In this Mental Health Minute, Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Toronto shares how you can keep your brain healthy in order to better serve your patients and your community.

is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto.

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Medical approaches to treating dementia and Alzheimer disease have been mostly unsuccessful. In this Mental Health Minute, Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, recommends that clinicians go beyond biomedical approaches. Instead, he advocates a suite of public health approaches, based on the research in his latest book, 

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is professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Along with Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, of 

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Decades of efforts to find effective medical treatments for dementia and Alzheimers disease have largely failed. Would a public health approach be more effective? 

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