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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152501287 Title: Mind thief : the story of Alzheimer's Author: Han Yu Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] ISBN/ISSN: 9780231198707 0231198701 OCLC:1152501287

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Mind thief : the story of Alzheimer's

Author:	Han Yu
Publisher:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Alzheimer's disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world's most common causes of death. Alzheimer's lingers for years, with patients' outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and recognize. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer's because its causes remain unknown. Mind Thief is a Read more...
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Subjects	Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease -- History.
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Genre/Form:	History
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Yu, Han, 1980- Mind thief New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] (DLC) 2020019016
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Han Yu Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780231198707 0231198701
OCLC Number:	1152501287
Description:	x, 345 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:	Lost Wives -- Cursed Inheritance -- Learning to Walk -- Searching for the Alzheimer's Gene -- Late-Onset Alzheimer's -- The Paradigm -- Eli Lilly and Mice -- Inhibitors That Can't Inhibit -- Poison or Cure: Alzheimer's Vaccine -- Eli Lilly's Three Expeditions -- Taoism and Tau Mice -- Apples, Oysters, and Underdogs -- Type 3 Diabetes -- Ketones the Brain Fuel -- Insulin Fixes -- Bacteria in the Brain -- Eat Your Vegetables (and Berries) -- Blood, Heart, and Brain -- A Missed Opportunity -- Paradigm Shift (?) -- An Enriched Life -- Epilogue -- Notes.
Responsibility:	Han Yu.

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Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer's that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of "presenile dementia" in the early twentieth Read more...

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Accomplished popular science. Yu delivers an expert account of the groundbreaking research that revealed the genetics and biochemistry of [Alzheimer's] disease. * Kirkus * Yu addresses an important, Read more...

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