The Memory Clinic
Stories Of Hope And Healing For Alzheimer's Pts And Their Famils
Everyone dreads the words “ Alzheimer ’ s disease ” and “ dementia. ” And everyone who plans to live beyond age sixty-five is at some risk. Dr. Tiffany Chow, a prominent clinician and neuroscientist, offers knowledge and hope about an illness where there is, as yet, no cure. Aimed at patients and their families, The Memory Clinic is a comprehensive and ultimately reassuring work about the prevention and management of dementia. Chow herself has a genetic legacy of Alzheimer ’ s disease, and she probes what she — and everyone else — can do to mitigate the impact of genetics through nutrition, exercise, and the concepts of cerebral reserve and brain plasticity.…
$20.00
December 31, 2013
Dr. Tiffany Chow is a Vice President of Clinical Development at Alector, Inc., a midsize biotech pharma company developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders. She also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Pathology. At the time she wrote The Memory Clinic, she was a Senior Clinician Scientist at the University of Toronto. She currently lives in San Diego.
