Nancy Ryerson

Nancy Ryerson is a digital communicator with years of experience covering healthcare. Today, she's a Digital Marketing Manager at Antidote, where she manages the company's content marketing and SEO strategies. Prior to joining Antidote, Nancy spent three years at The Michael J. Fox Foundation, where she created content for Parkinson's disease patients and expanded the Foundation's email list by 100,000+ members in two years through search and social strategies. She holds a BA in English and journalism from NYU.

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Mental Illness Awareness Week: Mental Health Treatments in Development

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week, a week dedicated to raising awareness of mental illness, which affects approximately 1 in 5 Americans in a given year.

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What is Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)?

What is Mild Cognitive Impairment? Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) causes slight but noticeable memory changes and thinking problems. These thinking problems are worse than those associated with normal aging, but not as severe as Alzheimer’s disease memory loss symptoms.

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Alzheimer’s Research Round-Up: June 2017

More than 5 million people live with Alzheimer’s today. By 2050, that number could rise to as high as 16 million. Currently, there is not an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s symptoms or anything that slows or stops the disease. Researchers are also investigating what steps we can take to prevent the disease in the first place.

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