15 things I wish every person over 50 knew about their brain.

As a board-certified psychiatrist who runs a memory clinic, I see what happens when people do not know these things.

Dementia diagnoses that turn out to be reversible depression. Thyroid conditions missed for years. Sleep medications quietly harming brain health while people avoid safer alternatives out of fear.

Some of this should be common knowledge. It is not. And that is a failure of my profession to get the word out.

Today I am trying to change that.