Rabins, Richman Family Professor of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The best history of the illness I have read. KirkusĮngagingly written and thoroughly researched, Mind Thief pulls together the history, biology, and sociology of Alzheimer's disease. Yu delivers an expert account of the groundbreaking research that revealed the genetics and biochemistry of disease. Wide-ranging and accessible, Mind Thief is an important book for all readers interested in the challenge of Alzheimer’s.Īccomplished popular science. In narrating the attempts to find a treatment, Yu also offers a critical account of research and drug development and a consideration of the philosophy of aging. Her chronicling of the trajectory of Alzheimer’s research deftly balances rich scientific detail with attention to the wider implications. Yu synthesizes a vast amount of medical literature, historical studies, and media interviews, telling the gripping stories of researchers’ struggles while situating science in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. She presents the leading hypotheses for what causes Alzheimer’s discusses each hypothesis’s tangled origins, merits, and gaps and details their successes and failures. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy. Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer’s because its causes remain unknown. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and recognize. Alzheimer’s lingers for years, with patients’ outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of death.
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