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Neurologist urges early screening for memory changes, previews trials testing earlier Alzheimer’s treatment
Summary
Dr. Travis Urban told Woodside Town attendees that short‑term memory loss should prompt evaluation, outlined new diagnostics (amyloid PET and blood biomarkers) and discussed anti‑amyloid drugs now in use and prevention trials testing earlier treatment.
Dr. Travis Urban, associate medical director of the Ray Dolby Brain Health Center at Sutter Health, told the Woodside Town forum that distinguishing normal cognitive aging from disease is vital and that early evaluation improves options. "Short‑term memory loss is never normal," Urban said, adding that primary care screening followed by neurology or geriatrics referral is the usual diagnostic pathway.
Urban reviewed diagnostic tools used today: office screens (MMSE/MOCA), neuropsychological testing, brain imaging and newer in‑life biomarkers such as amyloid PET scans and blood…
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