Anne was in the prime of her career - a trial lawyer working as a partner for a major law firm in Cincinnati - when she began to lose her mind. L A fitness enthusiast, Anne was only 50 when she realized something was amiss. "The first thing I noticed was that my hands would begin to shake while I was sitting at my desk," she recalls. Perplexed, she went to see a neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, who referred her for CT and MRI scans; both came back normal. She was given a diagnosis of essential tremor disorder, a progressive but not life-threatening condition. But within months, new symptoms began to appear: brain fog, memory loss, problems with reading and understanding even the simplest sentences. The work she had excelled at throughout her career quickly became impossible, and she would spend her days sitting staring vacantly into space. Looking back, she remembers feeling as if her brain were being slowly switched off.
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