Format:
1 Online-Ressource (358 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780231552769
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Table of 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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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231198707
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yu, Han, 1980 - Mind thief New York : Columbia University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780231198707
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231198714
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/yu--19870
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231552769
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