Memory Loss & the Brain


	From the Editor
	Editor's Note

	Memory News
	New Memory Book

	The Color of Risk African-Americans are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than whites. A new national program targets this dangerous disparity with community-based health education. Go to Article >>

	Caring for Culture Hispanics in Milwaukee are improving services for elders with Alzheimer's disease by customizing care to cultural attitudes toward dementia and medicine. Go to Article >>

	Minority Report Jennifer Manly’s research ensures that African-Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities are tested for dementia on a level playing field. Go to Article >>

	Memory Tip
	Remembering the Future


Resources
Sleep and Memory

Books: *Deep Sleep 101, by Gregg Jacobs. (Blue Marble, 2001, 52 pp plus music CD, $23.95.). Author Gregg Jacobs, offers a concise guidebook of ways to improve sleep. Articles:* "*Temporally structured replay of awake hippocampal ensemble activity during rapid eye movement sleep," by Kenway Louie and Matthew A. Wilson. (Neuron, January 2001, Volume 29, pp. 145-156.) "Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing," by Robert Stickgold, et al. (Science, November 2, 2001, Volume 294, pp. 1052-1057.) Websites:* SleepNet.com This educational, non-commercial site is devoted to improving sleep health and bills itself as a source of "everything you wanted to know about sleep but were too tired to ask." National Center on Sleep Disorders Research This web site posted by the National Institutes of Health includes patient information on sleep and sleep disorders.