Cognitive Decline Quotes

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

The thing in Alzheimer's disease to remember, and we remember this all the time at Axovant, is we don't fully understand the way the actual underlying disease works.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.