Mahaveer Golechhaa 26-year-old AIIMS researcher from India was awarded a scholarship for outstanding research on Alzheimer's disease by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation USA.


Alzheimer's disease is a black hole for artists. Alzheimer's disease does not discriminate and plays no favorites. It attacks the rich and the poor, the famous and the ordinary with equal propensity.Starting from Auguste Deter who is not a celebrity but the first person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease the list of sufferer goes long. It seems it is gulping our artists at fast pace.  Talking in general in 2005, it was estimated that 24.3 million worldwide and 1.8 million people in India are affected with this serious disease. Early onset Alzheimer’s can develop in people as young as forty, but most victims of this affliction develop it after the age of sixty-five. This form of dementia is particularly insidious, as it robs those with it of their mental faculties and memories.
Perhaps the most well-known sufferer, of course, was the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. He drastically increased public awareness for the tragic illness through his personal mission of education and fundraising. Checkout the list of artists worldwide who got in trap of Alzheimer's disease.Mabel Albertson-An American actress, best known for her role in the television sitcom “Bewitched”.


Dana Andrews -An American film actor, best known for his role in the Oscar winning movie “The Best Years of Our Lives”.Sir Rudolph Bing- An Austrian-born opera impresario and a General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.James Brooks-An American muralist and abstract painter who won the Logan Medal of the Arts.Charles Bronson-An American film actor, best known for his role in classic films such as “Once Upon a Time in the West”, “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Dirty Dozen” and “The Great Escape”.Abe Burrows-An American author, humorist and director for radio and the stage.Perry Como-An American singer and television personality who was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.Aaron Copland-An American pianist and film score composer.Willem De Kooning-A Dutch abstract expressionist artist.James Doohan-A Canadian character and voice actor, best known for his role in the Star Trek series.Thomas Dorsey-A gospel music legend.Louis Feraud-A French fashion designer and artist.Mike Frankovich-An American film producer (right).Charlton Heston-An Oscar awarded American actor of film, theater and television, best known for his heroic roles in “The Ten Commandments”, “El Cid” and “Ben-Hur”.

Mervyn Leroy-An Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor.Jack Lord- An American television, film, and Broadway actor, best known for his role in the American television program “Hawaii Five-O”.Ross MacDonald-Kenneth Millar-A crime fiction writer famous for his widely read series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective “Lew Archer”.Burgess Meredith-A two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for portraying Rocky Balboa’s trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and The Penguin in the television series Batman.Iris Murdoch-An Irish-born English author and philosopher, best known for her work regarding ethical and sexual themes.Rita Hayworth-An American film actress, professional dancer and a sex symbol, best known for her role in the classic movie “Gilda”.Edmond O’Brien-An American film actor best known for his role in D.O.A.Arthur O’Connell-An American stage and film actor who appeared in 1941 film Citizen Kane.Molly Picon-An American actress and lyricist.Otto Preminger-Legendary Austrian-born Jewish film director.Harry Ritz-An American comedian of the famous “Ritz Brothers”.Norman Rockwell-An American painter and illustrator, best known for his work for “The Saturday Evening Post”.Daniel Simon Scott-An American Artist.
Arlene Francis-An American actress, radio talk show host, and game show panelist, best known for her role as a panelist on the television game show “What’s My Line?”Irving Shulman-An American author and screenwriter.Kay Swift-An American composer of popular and classical music, probably the first woman to compose a complete musical score.Alfred Van Vogt-A Canadian-born science fiction author widely known as the most prolific and complex writers in his genre.E.B. White-Legendary American writer.Maurice Ravel-Classical French composer and pianist.Terry Pratchett-An English novelist, best known for his critically acclaimed comical work in the fantasy genre.

Posted By: Surabhi Yadav