In pursuit of memory
Subtitle: the fight against Alzheimer's
By: Joseph Jebelli
Edition: First North American edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780316360791
Subjects: Patients; Biography; Family relationships; Popular works; Alzheimer's disease; Care
Description: 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.

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide. Jebelli, a neuroscientist, takes us behind the headlines and into his quest from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Researchers are changing the way we think about the disease, but until a cure is found Jebelli provides an eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: 'A peculiar disease'; title: Author's note; title: Origins. The psychiatrist with a microscope ; Understanding an epidemic ; A medicine for memory; title: Research. Diagnosis ; The Alzheimer's gene ; The science behind the headlines ; The second brain ; Swedish brain power; title: Prevention. Stress ; Diet ; Exercise ; Brain training ; Sleep; title: Experimentation. Regeneration ; Young blood ; Seeds of dementia ; Looking but not seeing ; Between the devil and the deep blue sea; title: Discovery. To the ends of the earth ; Insights from India ; Clues from Colombia ; Alzheimer's legacy; title: Coda.