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Dr. Peter Whitehouse will transform just how we think about Alzheimer’s disease. With this provocative and ground-breaking book he challenges the conventional wisdom about memory loss and cognitive impairment; questions the current treatment for Alzheimer’s disease; and provides a new method of understanding and rethinking everything we thought we knew about brain aging.
The Myth of Alzheimer’s provides welcome answers to the questions that millions of individuals identified as having Alzheimer’s disease – and their families – are wanting to know:
Is Alzheimer’s an illness?
What is the difference between a naturally aging brain and an Alzheimer’s brain?
How effective will be the current drugs for AD? Are they worth the amount of money we spend on them?
What kind of hope does science genuinely have for the treating memory loss? And are there alternative interventions that will keep our aging bodies and minds sharp?
What promise does genomic research actually hold?
What would a world without Alzheimer’s appear to be, and just how do we as individuals and as human communities get there?
Backed up by research, full of practical advice and information, and infused with hope, THE MYTH OF ALZHEIMER’S will liberate us from this crippling label, teach us how to best approach memory loss, and clarify how to stave off some of the standard ramifications of aging.
Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., one of the best known Alzheimer’s experts on the globe, specializes in neurology with an intention in geriatrics and cognitive science and a give attention to dementia. He is the founder of the University Alzheimer Center (now the University Memory and Aging Center) at University Hospitals Case INFIRMARY and Case Western Reserve University where he has held professorships in the neurology, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, organizational behavior, bioethics, cognitive science, nursing, and history. He is also currently a practicing geriatric neurologist. Along with his wife, Catherine, he founded The Intergenerational School, an award winning, internationally recognized public school committed to enhancing lifelong cognitive vitality.
Daniel George, MSc, is a study collaborator with Dr. Whitehouse at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Medical Anthropology at Oxford University in England.
“I don’t have a magic bullet to prevent your brain from getting older, and so I don’t claim to really have the cure for AD; but I really do give you a powerful therapy—a fresh narrative for approaching brain aging that undercuts the destructive myth we tell today. The majority of our knowledge and our thinking is organized in story form, and so stories offer us the chief method of making sense of the present, looking into the near future, and planning and creating our lives. New methods to brain aging require new stories that can move us beyond the myth of Alzheimer’s disease and towards improved quality of life for all aging persons inside our society. It is in this book that your brand-new story can begin." -Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D.
