Han Yu

Mind Thief

The Story of Alzheimer's

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Produktbeschreibung

Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimerà â â s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of à â Å presenile dementiaà â  in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 146mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198707
• ISBN-10: 0231198701
• Artikelnr.: 59258199

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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