Mind Thief : : The Story of Alzheimer's /

Mind Thief : : The Story of Alzheimer's / / Han Yu.

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 r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Yu, Han,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 8 figures, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 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

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