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In Pursuit of Memory
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's | Joseph Jebelli
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For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases--Alzheimer's--from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's (…more)
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Aswenson
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Informative and intriguing!

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Lauren.Archer
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Excellent book about the history of Alzheimer‘s and what is potentially out on the horizon. My cases involving real patients. There are so many forms of this disease that I did not exist. Good read If this is something you are interested in.

JenReadsAlot Is this a fairly easy read or really technical? 7y
Lauren.Archer @JenReadsAlot not very technical at all for the most part. 7y
JenReadsAlot Okay thanks! 7y
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Lauren.Archer
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Heard an interview on NPR with the author. His research sounds amazing. I wanted to get more insight.

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In this fascinating, frightening but always very human book, Jebelli tracks the history of Alzheimer‘s from it‘s discovery by Alois Alzheimer in 1906 to the research into how we think it operates in the brain, the link to genetics, the development of drugs to try and combat it, research on lifestyle changes to try and prevent or mitigate it and - most terrifyingly - research into whether it‘s transmissible in an easy-to-follow and gripping read.