Mind Thief – The Story of Alzheimer′s
Autor Han Yuen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780231198714
ISBN-10: 023119871X
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
ISBN-10: 023119871X
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Cuprins
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Lost Wives
2. Cursed Inheritance
3. Learning to Walk
4. Searching for the Alzheimer¿s Gene
5. Late-Onset Alzheimer¿s
6. The Paradigm
7. Eli Lilly and Mice
8. Inhibitors That Can¿t Inhibit
9. Poison or Cure: An Alzheimer¿s Vaccine
10. Eli Lilly¿s Three Expeditions
11. Taoism and Tau Mice
12. Apples, Oysters, and Underdogs
13. Type 3 Diabetes
14. Ketones: The Brain Fuel
15. Insulin Fixes
16. Bacteria in the Brain
17. Eat Your Vegetables (and Berries)
18. Blood, Heart, and Brain
19. A Missed Opportunity
20. Paradigm Shift (?)
21. An Enriched Life
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Lost Wives
2. Cursed Inheritance
3. Learning to Walk
4. Searching for the Alzheimer¿s Gene
5. Late-Onset Alzheimer¿s
6. The Paradigm
7. Eli Lilly and Mice
8. Inhibitors That Can¿t Inhibit
9. Poison or Cure: An Alzheimer¿s Vaccine
10. Eli Lilly¿s Three Expeditions
11. Taoism and Tau Mice
12. Apples, Oysters, and Underdogs
13. Type 3 Diabetes
14. Ketones: The Brain Fuel
15. Insulin Fixes
16. Bacteria in the Brain
17. Eat Your Vegetables (and Berries)
18. Blood, Heart, and Brain
19. A Missed Opportunity
20. Paradigm Shift (?)
21. An Enriched Life
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Han Yu is a professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches scientific and technical communication. She is the author of The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication (2015) and Communicating Genetics: Visualizations and Representations (2017).
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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 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. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy.