NEWS YOU CAN USE: Reversing cognitive decline. “There’s a fascinating new paper in the journal Aging by Dale E. Bredesen, M.D., Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program, in which the author describes significant reversal of poor brain function in nine of ten people who undertook his program. (The one who did not improve had late stage Alzheimer’s.) Many of these people were not what we would consider elderly, but were in their 50s or 60s and experiencing enough decline in brain function that they were no longer able to work. Let’s look at a few of the treatment modalities that were used.”