Keith Hengen was a postdoc studying the intricacies of the brain when Alzheimer’s disease began dismantling his father’s mind. Each year, the illness took something new: a memory, a habit, a piece of recognition. Hengen could only watch. “I felt so powerless and lost,” he said. “The irony was humbling and unavoidable. Here I was, […]

Fighting the fading mind
The Ampersand | WashU Arts & Sciences

