Dr. Piero Antuono is Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology at the at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and is the Director of the Dementia Research Center there. He is a leading Alzheimer's researcher.

The Medical College of Wisconsin Dementia Research Center includes a clinic for patients with memory loss, programs for the development of new drugs for dementias, and an autopsy program dedicated to the study of Alzheimer's Disease.

Dr. Antuono first spoke with Etopia Medical News on November 29, 2004, about the nature, causes, treatments, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease, a neurological affliction now affecting millions of Americans and their families and expected to affect many more in the years to come.

Dr. Antuono returned today to speak with Etopia Medical News reporter Marc Strassman about the latest research into, and treatment options for, Alzheimer’s and also talked about recent research from the U.K. linking the use of neuroleptic drugs in Alzheimer’s patients with pre-mature death.