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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure by Jennie Erin Smith instant download

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Authors:Jennie Erin Smith
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Year:2025
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Language:english
File Size:1.52 MB
Format:epub
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure by Jennie Erin Smith instant download

The riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease
“Powerful. . . . a poignant depiction of a community in crisis.” —Publishers Weekly

In the 1980s, a neurologist named Francisco Lopera traveled on horseback into the mountains seeking families with symptoms of dementia. For centuries, residents of certain villages near Medellín had suffered memory loss as they reached middle age, going on to die in their fifties. Lopera discovered that a unique genetic mutation was causing their rare hereditary form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Over the next forty years of working with the “paisa mutation” kindred, he went on to build a world-class research program in a region beset by violence and poverty.
In Valley of Forgetting, Jennie Erin Smith brings readers into the clinic, the laboratories, and the...
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