- Title: Assault On The Mind: Progress At Last
- Date: 28th April 1998
- Summary: Programme 2: - Progress at last? In the second part of this series the possibility of a major breakthrough is looming. OPTIMA, the research team at Oxford University, seem to have stumbled upon a discovery that might not only unlock the key to Alzheimer's Disease, but could help prevent the disease and advance the search for a cure for the 100,000 people a year who develop the condition. But there are obstacles....Tonight the film examines two more cases. MARGARET CARMEN, a participant in the study since 1989, has been card for around the clock by her husband BILL and their two children. ROBERT DARBY was an interesting case to OPTIMA because, although he is able to articulate his enthusiasms, and possesses excellent motor skills, he has been having memory and thinking problems for the last four years, to the extent that he has trouble telling the time.
- Description:Britain's population includes a million people with Alzheimer's Disease,a cruel condition that robs them first of the sharpness of recall,then of the capacity to reason and to speak and,finally,all human identity. In the US the figure is upwards of 5 million. It is the most prevalent neurological disorder in history. Each year,tens of thousands of healthy,bright people begin the Alzheimer descent into oblivion and eventual death.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:UNION PICTURES LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:28/04/1998
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s