Tangled Up

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The only comprehensive guide to the history and science of Alzheimer's disease</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>With vivid examples dementia expert Michael Hornberger takes you on a whistle-stop tour of every aspect of Alzheimer's disease from its origins to modern diagnosis and treatment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Professor Hornberger shows how you can protect yourself and your family from developing the disease and explains:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What causes Alzheimer's disease</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Why Alzheimer's often affects memory first</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The role of genetics in raising and lowering risk for the disease</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The chances you will inherit Alzheimer's from your parents</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The practical steps you can take to reduce your risk of getting dementia</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Prof Hornberger delves into this most common form of dementia by looking at the very first patient who was diagnosed with 'Alzheimer's' by a pioneering doctor Alois Alzheimer. She could remember her wedding but not her husband's name or where they lived.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This is often true of Alzheimer's disease - people with it are often said to be 'living in the past' as their old memories thrive while newer memories are difficult to create. However the disease has many variants and Prof Hornberger goes into the lesser-known ones such as Posterior Cortical Atrophy which does not start with memory loss.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He also explains the role that inherited genes play in transmitting Alzheimer's including the important difference between risk genes and familial Alzheimer's disease genes - which make developing the disease a near certainty.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Finally the book looks at new 'biomarkers' and blood tests to detect diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's and the new treatments emerging.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Prof Hornberger warns that popularly touted techniques to prevent Alzheimer's may not be worth your time or money. Instead he sets out the steps you can take to protect yourself from this debilitating degenerative disease. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Buy the book and start reading</strong></p>