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Brain Degeneration Summit

Why attend the Brain Degeneration Summit?Dr. Eckel became a health advocate after his wife, Sarieah, developed a rapidly progressing dementia, which they later found out was a very rare neurological condition called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Going through this process as a husband and physician, he experienced the lack of options patients with chronic neurodegeneration (and their caregivers) […]