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In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's / Joseph Jebelli.

by Jebelli, Joseph.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Alzheimer's disease -- Research.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

9780316360791 (hc.)

First North American edition.

xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-288) and index.

Preface: 'A peculiar disease' -- Author's note -- Origins. The psychiatrist with a microscope ; Understanding an epidemic ; A medicine for memory -- Research. Diagnosis ; The Alzheimer's gene ; The science behind the headlines ; The second brain ; Swedish brain power -- Prevention. Stress ; Diet ; Exercise ; Brain training ; Sleep -- Experimentation. Regeneration ; Young blood ; Seeds of dementia ; Looking but not seeing ; Between the devil and the deep blue sea -- Discovery. To the ends of the earth ; Insights from India ; Clues from Colombia ; Alzheimer's legacy -- Coda.

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His grandfather had Alzheimer's. He presents a very human history of this frightening disease. A scientific detective story that takes us from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England, to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the technological proving grounds of Japan; through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Its heroes are scientists from around the world and the brave patients and families who have changed the way that researchers think about the disease. Why Jebelli feels so hopeful about a cure, and why our best defense in the meantime is to understand the disease. An eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now. Joseph Jebelli, PhD, graduated from the Insitute of Neurology, University College London.

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