The Memory Clinic

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.…