TY - JOUR
AU - Philpot, Michael
AB -  MICHAEL PHILPOT Cortsultcint ctnci Honorary Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Bethlem and Mnud.dey Trust and the Institute of‘ P.svrhiatry. London, U K PREHISTORY ‘MIND DOC STORM: HE WANTS OLD FOLK FOR TESTS’ Thus screamed the headlines of a national tabloid newspaper (albeit on page 15) in late 1979. Raymond Levy had been planning to embark on a randomized controlled trial of the effects of high-dose lecithin in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. He had asked the local council permission to approach the clients of their residential homes. Councillors had opposed the application on the grounds that any experimentation on ‘their’ old people posed an unacceptable risk. Another newspaper reported that Dr Levy was: . . . very angry indeed because I feel my research, which had barely got off the ground, may be seriously damaged. London, seems to merit that accolade (van der Cammen et al., 1987). From the outset, the aims could be listed as follows: . . . to provide GPs and others with an assessment facility for patients complaining of progressive memory problems; to develop more sensitive methods of detecting early deficits, including the use of computer assisted measurement; to provide patients with information and 
TI - The Maudsley Hospital Memory Clinic
JF - International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199604)11:4<305::AID-GPS450>3.0.CO;2-T
DA - 1996-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-maudsley-hospital-memory-clinic-1n0uPIq3As
SP - 305
EP - 308
VL - 11
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -