Simple Brain Shunt Cures Doctor's 'Cerebral Atrophy'

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Stumbling, and memory fading, Dr. Harold O. Conn already knew something was wrong, but the neurologist's death sentence was a shock. Conn, 81, vividly remembers the moment in 2002.

The doctor told Conn and his wife, Marilyn, that Conn's "cerebral atrophy" was worsening, would attack his intellect and there was no treatment.

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Simple Brain Shunt Cures Doctor's 'Cerebral Atrophy'

He said Conn should put his affairs in order.

"That was probably one of the blackest days in both our lives," Conn said recently.

Yet, four years after that terrifying prognosis, Conn's memory is as sharp as any octogenarian's, he walks normally and his intellect is very much intact.

Despite the increasingly ominous sympt...

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