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The Alzheimer conundrum

Lock, Margaret

2013,2016,2014

Overview

Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer’s disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer’s disease and extensive in-depth interviews, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but should be complemented by a public health approach to prevention that is economically feasible, more humane, and much more effective globally than one exclusively focused on an increasingly harried search for a cure. Margaret Lock is the Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Age factors / Age of onset / Aging / Allele / Alzheimer's Association / Alzheimer's disease / Alzheimer's disease -- Age factors / Amnesia / Amyloid / Amyloid beta / Anthropology / Apolipoprotein E / Biomarker / Brain / Brain -- Aging -- Molecular aspects / Cardiovascular disease / Caregiver / Cell death / Cerebrospinal fluid / Clinical trial / Clinician / Dementia / Diagnosis / Disease / Drug development / Early-onset Alzheimer's disease / Epidemic / Epidemiology / Family history (medicine) / Family support / Finding / Follow-up / Funding / General practitioner / Genetic counseling / Genetic testing / Geneticist / Genome-wide association study / Genotype / Genotyping / HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia / Health Sciences / History of Science & Technology / Human subject research / Inflammation / MEDICAL / General / Medical diagnosis / Mental disorder / Mental health / Mild cognitive impairment / Model organism / Molecular aspects / Molecular biology / National Institute on Aging / Neurodegeneration / Neurofibrillary tangle / Neuroimaging / Neurology / Neuropathology / Old age / Older people / Older people -- Mental health / Oxidative stress / Pathology / Pharmaceutical drug / Pharmaceutical industry / Physician / Positron emission tomography / Prevalence / Principal investigator / Processing (Chinese materia medica) / Psychiatrist / Psychiatry / Public health / Research assistant / Risk factor / SCIENCE / History / Scientist / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General / Specialty (medicine) / Symptom / Syndrome / Technology / Toxin / Uncertainty / Vascular dementia
• ISBN: 9780691149783, 069114978X, 1400848466, 9781400848461, 9780691168470, 0691168474