In this episode of Talking Dementia, Dr. Emily Silverman speaks with Dr. Bruce Miller, who holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the Memory and Aging Center, and is the founding director of the Global Brain Health Institute, UCSF. A world-renowned behavioral neurologist, Bruce has spent his career studying the diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative disease.

Dr. Miller and Emily walk through the fundamentals of dementia, what distinguishes it from normal aging, and the most common (and rarer) diagnoses seen at the Memory and Aging Center, from Alzheimer's and vascular dementia to frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson's-related cognitive decline.

The conversation moves into some of the more unusual manifestations of these  ...