Alzheimer's disease causes death of neurons, and researchers hypothesize this may contribute to abnormal electrical activity in the brain that leads to epileptic seizures.
You could say that medicine is in the family: Ruby Castilla-Puentes is the only psychiatrist
among her siblings, but all four went to medical school at the Universidad Industrial
de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. “Our professors used to ask – how many more of
you are coming?!” Castilla-Puentes tells The Lancet Psychiatry. Her siblings were
among many peers who questioned her choice to specialise in mental health not considered
fashionable back then but it is a decision she has never regretted.