to the important issues, the fact that his mother-in-law was diagnosed with early-onset alzheimer's in her mid 50'smself talked about his own misperceptions about the disease. he thought that it meant that she would lose her wallet or her keys. in fact she lost the ability to do all the things that make us human. walk talk, eat. to basically care for herself. cancer, for example, has many, many public faces. celebrities, like katie couric, angelina jolie, putting a public face behind the disease. michael j fox has been able to do the same thing for parkinson's. alzheimer's is a different challenge. by the time people are diagnosed, they sooner start to forget. it is a much higher -- much harder mountain to climb in terms of raising awareness for the people who are very accessible to the masses. >> i want to show our viewers --host: i want to show our viewers a bit from seth rogen's testimony. it has been an extremely popular view viewing, on our website. a lot of people have gone to see this on our website, seth rogen testifying and clips of that. here is a little bit of his testimony. [video clip]

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in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective >>> >>> [ gavel ] >> >> the health service board meeting is now in session. all stand for the pledge. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> >>

alzheimer's. >> i'm rarely schizophrenia research. that's what i'd don i done for s before i became a tv i research or in 2008 but we have a measure based on this kind of imaging that shows early on that the very first episode of schizophrenia you see fluid around all of the brain that is free water. it's like the isotropic but in just the frontal lobe you see is more restricted to inside tissue and this is a brand-new technique that was developed by a fulbright scholar in our lab and israel. >> the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. you stated many sports related concussions still go undiagnosed and i would like to know why in your opinion that is the case and how can we improve that in the state law and also be involved with coaches and players in the areas w and areao have improvement. i think i would echo what others have said on the panel i think that a lot of it has to do with recognition. people are good at recognizing when someone gets knocked out on the field that is a small percentage of all concussions and i think that as our understanding of the sym