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

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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