For people in Burlington who’ve always been able to rely on their mind — and have started wondering, quietly, what happens if they can’t.
You came to Burlington for the reasons people come here. Thirty square miles at the foot of the Berkshires, half of it protected forest and watershed — Sessions Woods, Nassahegan, the reservoirs behind them. Region 10 was the right call for your kids. The acreage was real, and you could actually do it. Most days start with a long drive out and end with a longer one back, and the hour after dinner when the house finally goes quiet is the hour you’d protect over almost anything. None of this happened by accident. You made good decisions, and they held.
It started small enough to dismiss. A name that wouldn’t come when you needed it, in front of people who expected you to have it. A number you’d have carried in your head for a week, gone by the afternoon. Twice now you’ve caught a mistake late that you would have caught early, and both times you fixed it before it mattered, and both times it stayed with you for days afterward. You’ve been sleeping fine. You’re not drinking more. Work is hard, but work has always been hard. The explanations keep running out before the pattern does.
It’s tough to solve a problem you can’t name. There’s nothing to point to, and you can already picture it: the pat on the arm, you’re in your forties, your labs are fine. Everyone’s tired… But there is a name for this, and it has nothing to do with how hard you’re working at it. It’s in the metabolic and inflammatory systems that fuel the brain — the ones that supply energy for attention, clear out what a hard day leaves behind, and hold new information in place long enough to keep it. Under years of sustained load, they run less efficiently. That’s a physical process, happening in a specific place, for reasons that can be measured.
It starts earlier than most people assume. And a standard workup isn’t designed to look for it, which is why nothing has turned up.
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, and support into the life you’re actively building — not another commitment on top of everything else.
Touchpoints180 Serving Burlington, CT — and the Farmington Valley
This work is available to individuals and families from Burlington, Bristol, Canton, Farmington, Harwinton, and New Hartford — and throughout Connecticut through secure, high-touch telemedicine.