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Gayatri Devi, MD

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Gayatri Devi, MD

Gayatri Devi, MD, MS, FACP, FAAN, is an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Downstate Medical Center. She is a board certified neurologist, with additional board certifications in Pain Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, and she served on the faculty of New York University’s School of Medicine as Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry until 2015. She is the author of over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals on the topic of memory loss, as well as the books ESTROGEN, MEMORY AND MENOPAUSE (Alphasigma Press, 2000), WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (Time Warner Books, 2004) and A CALM BRAIN (Dutton, 2012). She lives and practices in New York City.

Gayatri Devi, MD

Books by Gayatri Devi, MD

by Gayatri Devi, MD - Health, Medicine, Mental Health, Nonfiction

Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. And imagine how that would change the outlook of the five million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, not to mention their families, loved ones and caretakers. A neurologist who has been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi rewrites the story of Alzheimer’s by defining it as a spectrum disorder --- like autism, Alzheimer’s is a disease that affects different people differently. She encourages people who are worried about memory impairment to seek a diagnosis, because early treatment will enable doctors and caregivers to manage the disease more effectively through drugs and other therapies.