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Karlawish: Alzheimer's Without Symptoms Is Not Living With Nothing
A STAT opinion by Jason Karlawish asks what an Alzheimer's diagnosis means for someone whose thinking and memory remain intact.
Karlawish made the case in an opinion essay published November 6 in STAT's Neurotransmissions column. He is a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and co-director of the Penn Memory Center.
The publicly accessible opening challenges the assumption that having no cognitive symptoms means having no experience of illness. The headline and deck focus on the personal effects of receiving a diagnosis.
The full essay is available to STAT subscribers. This reading note covers only its public opening and framing, not the full argument. It is an opinion essay, not a new clinical study.