At MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute, we have a memory loss center. Why do that, why have a dedicated center or a dedicated area within a practice to deal with memory loss. The answer is quite simple. Memory disorders are very common and it is often confusing for families and patients who are experiencing memory disorder or other thinking problems about what they should do, so they may wander from physician to physician. They may call the Alzheimers Association. They may go on the Internet and look for things, but what is really needed is a diagnosis. Do you really have a memory problem or are you just distracted and anxious; are you multitasking too much; and if you have a memory problem, what is the cause of it. The cause is important because there are treatments for most memory disorders, cures for a few, but treatments for almost all. Learning which memory disorder you have is very important. We used to think that as we got older some of us got senile. That was a word that was used in the past, but in the 1970s and 1980s, for the first time investigation was carried out to find out what causes senility, why do people become senile, as it were. The answer was quite startling. It turned out that almost all of the people who had been diagnosed with senility, once they passed away and an autopsy was done, their brains revealed straightforward Alzheimers disease, so it was not until the 1970s or 1980s that we realized that almost everything we had been calling senility was …