For people in Berlin who’ve been a little more forgetful lately — and aren’t sure what to make of it.
The figure on Berlin’s town seal is a Yankee peddler, a basket under his arm and a pack of tin pots and pans on his back. In the 1740s the Pattison brothers started making tinware here, and peddlers carried their wares door to door. The load you carry is different: work, errands, appointments, plans with the people in your life. You’ve always kept track of all of it without trying.
Car keys that aren’t where you always leave them. A meeting you’d have sworn was Thursday. Small things, the kind you wouldn’t give a second thought if they happened to someone else. When they happen to you, it’s different. You find the keys and fix the calendar, but the worry stays.
Your brain uses about a fifth of your body’s energy, and memory is often among the first things to feel it when that energy runs uneven. Blood sugar that swings through the day, stress hormones that never quite come down, a body running hot with inflammation, sleep too shallow to sort and store what you took in: each one makes it harder to hold on to where you left something or what you agreed to.
Those are physical causes. They can be found, and they can change.
Maybe you’ve mentioned this to your doctor, and maybe you haven’t. Either way, a regular checkup isn’t set up to answer it. It’s a good check, just not for this. It doesn’t follow your blood sugar across a whole day, or measure the inflammation you’re carrying, or track how your stress hormones rise and fall. Those take their own lab work, and a physician who reads the results in light of what you’ve been feeling.
Touchpoints180® was founded by Lori Calabrese, MD, a Johns Hopkins- and Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Yale School of Medicine. Touchpoints180 is the physician-led ecosystem built around Metabolic Brain and Body Health: a structured clinical pathway from understanding what’s changed to building a different trajectory and a better future for you.
Rather than asking people to fit their lives around healthcare, Touchpoints180 serves individuals throughout Connecticut through a high-touch telemedicine model that brings physician guidance, education, coaching support, and accountability directly into daily life — into the places where change actually happens, not just the places where it gets discussed.
Touchpoints180 Serving Berlin, CT — and Central Connecticut
This work is available to individuals and families from Berlin, including Kensington and East Berlin, and from nearby New Britain, Newington, Rocky Hill, Cromwell, Middletown, Meriden, and Southington — and throughout Connecticut through secure, high-touch telemedicine.