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The Blurb On The Back:
”When I was twelve, my grandfather began to act strangely. It started with inexplicable walks. He’d leave the dinner table and we would find him, half an hour later, aimlessly wandering. His smiles were gradually replaced by a fearful, withdrawn expression; he looked increasingly like someone who’d lost something irreplaceable. Before long, he didn’t recognise any of us.”
Alzheimer’s is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide. In 2016, it overtook heart disease as the number one cause of death in England and Wales.
It is also a story as compelling as any detective novel, taking us to 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 expert scientists from around the world – but also the incredibly brave patients and families who have changed the way that those scientists think about the disease. This is a pandemic that has taken us centuries to track down and now we are racing against time to find a cure.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Dr Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist whose fascination with the study of Alzheimer’s disease started when he was 12-years-old and his grandfather developed it. In this fascinating, frightening but always very human book, Jebelli tracks the history of Alzheimer’s from its 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.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Alzheimer’s is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide. In 2016, it overtook heart disease as the number one cause of death in England and Wales.
It is also a story as compelling as any detective novel, taking us to 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 expert scientists from around the world – but also the incredibly brave patients and families who have changed the way that those scientists think about the disease. This is a pandemic that has taken us centuries to track down and now we are racing against time to find a cure.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Dr Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist whose fascination with the study of Alzheimer’s disease started when he was 12-years-old and his grandfather developed it. In this fascinating, frightening but always very human book, Jebelli tracks the history of Alzheimer’s from its 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.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
