In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

A biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases-- Alzheimer's--from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. When Joseph Jebelli was twelve years old, his grandfather began acting "indefinably peculiar." He had developed Alzheimer's--the merciless and enigmatic disease that plagues people worldwide. Twenty years later, Dr. Jebelli spends his days trying to understand the illness that claimed his grandfather, and help those living with it today. Now a seasoned expert in the field of Alzheimer's research and treatment, Jebelli presents the definitive portrait of this remarkably challenging disease. Beginning with Alois Alzheimer's discovery of the illness in 1906, In Pursuit of Memory is a story as good as any detective novel--one that takes readers from 19th century Germany and post-war England to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the research labs of Japan. Filled with captivating facts about the history and science of Alzheimer's, and stories of the author's own patients and their families, In Pursuit of Memory lifts the veil from the shadowy face of history's most perplexing ailment.