In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's / Joseph Jebelli
By: Jebelli, Joseph [author.].
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, October 2017Edition: First North American edition.Description: xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316360791.Subject(s): Alzheimer Disease | Alzheimer's disease -- Popular works | Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography | Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships | Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- CareGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC523.2 .J43 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012127 |
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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
A neuroscientist takes readers on a journey around the world and through history, from nineteenth-century Germany to present day India, to examine the science and scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer's disease