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In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's / Joseph Jebelli.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316360791
- ISBN: 0316360791
- Physical Description: xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First North American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-288) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Genre: | Personal Narratives. Popular Works. Biography. Popular works. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Coatesville-Clay Twp PL - Coatesville | 616 (Text) | 78321000026868 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | 616.831 JEBELLI (Text) | 32826014112551 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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Joseph Jebelli, PhD, obtained his doctorate in Neurobiology from the Insitute of Neurology, University College London. His research focuses on the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease. He lives in the United Kingdom.
