Cognitive Dynamics President Daniel C. Potts, M.D. is selected a featured expert for organizedwisdom.com, an online healthcare partner for Reader’s Digest

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Art therapy: Changing perspectives, lives of Alzheimer’s patients

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Attached is a link to an article in the Petoskey News (Michigan) about art therapy for Alzheimer’s disease patients. The story of Lester Potts is highlighted. The article was written by 2010 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Palatucci Advocate of the Year, Jeffrey Kutcher, M.D. Dr. Kutcher is the director of University of Michigan NeuroSport, and the founder of the Sports Neurology section of the AAN.

http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/null-art-therapy-changing-perspectives-lives-of-alzheimers-patients-20110128,0,3319637.story

The “Core” of the Dementia Patient

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Affliction can lead to blessing. Stripped of social, occupational, cognitive, volitional identity, the dementia patient is left bare. But the core, the true self, still glows. In fact, it might be more clearly known in its state of purity, if we make the effort to find it. I would argue that we owe it to our fellow human beings, even to the world, and certainly to God, to do our best to find it. For there, in that center, remain those primal elements which connect us with the divine, the “metals” of our sun, the “stuff” of stars. Our present-day world cannot afford to lose one element in the treasure of this human core.

“Painting in Twilight” is Highlighted by the American Academy of Neurology

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

“Painting in Twilght: An Artist’s Escape from Alzheimer’s”, the gala art event featuring the Alzheimer’s art of Lester Potts on display at the David W. Streets Galleries in Beverly Hills, was recently highlighted on the American Academy of Neurology website at the link below:

http://www.aan.com/news/index.cfm?event=read&article_id=9306

Dr. Potts Appears on Alzheimer’s Telethon

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

The Together for Care Telethon, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and aired nationally on NBC, featured Caring Days Adult Daycare in Tuscaloosa, as well as Cognitive Dynamics President Dr. Daniel Potts. See the Telethon at the link below:

http://www.alzfdn.org/telethon/telethon_webcast.html

Support Caring Days

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

Please remember to lend your support for Caring Days Adult Day Center, the longest-running dementia daycare center in Alabama and a national model for such centers. Caring Days was recently selected as one of only two centers of its kind in the nation to be highlighted on the Together For Care Telethon, a collaboration between the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and NBC, which will air in major media markets on December 4th.

Caring Days is currently involved in a capital campaign to raise funds for a much-needed new building which will double its capacity for clients to 50. It will be a state-of-the-art facility in terms of effectivenes of design for this clientelle.

Caring Days is where Lester Potts discovered his artistic abilities.

Please consider making a donation to this important cause. The Caring Days website is www.caringdays.org.

Cognitive Dynamics Press Release Regarding Art Gala

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Cognitive Dynamics Art Gala Press Release

Gala Art Event Photos

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Gala Art Event Photos

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Gala Art Gallery Showing a Huge Success!

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

The watercolor art of Lester Potts was displayed at the David Streets Galleries (http://www.davidstreetsbeverlyhills.com/) on Novemeber 5 in collaboration between Cognitive Dynamics Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology. Attended by some 200 art enthusiasts, celebrities and philanthropists, this event helped to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and the expressive arts therapies to improve quality of life and foster dignity.

Cognitive Dynamics Foundation wishes to thank Dr. Meril Platzer, without whose idea and grassroots advocacy efforts this event would not have taken place. In addition we wish to thank David Streets and Barbara Lazaroff, as well as the American Academy of Neurology and our corporate sponsors.

It is our hope that we will be able to garner support for our first initiative, “Art to Life”, in partnership with the University of Alabama Honors College. This initiative will use expressive arts therapies to tease out the life stories of impoverished Alzheimer’s patients in the Blackbelt region of Alabama, and preserve the stories as therapy for the patients, keepsakes for the familes, and as a national treasure. There will be more posts forthcoming about this important project!

The link to a press relase about the event is here: http://www.prlog.org/11057664