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By P. Murali Doraiswamy, L. Gwyther, and T. Adler
470 pp, $26.95
New York, NY, St Martin's Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-3123-5539-5

JAMA. 2008;300(3):333-334.

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Five million Americans have Alzheimer disease, and an even larger number with mild to moderate memory loss are at high risk of developing this illness. Murali Doraiswamy, a leading clinical researcher in Alzheimer disease, and Lisa Gwyther, a founder of the Alzheimer Association, have coauthored this timely, state-of-the-art book directed at patients with Alzheimer disease, their informants, and their primary care physicians.

Auguste D, the patient described in the 1906 case study by Dr Alois Alzheimer and the first person with clinicopathological diagnosis of what subsequently became known as Alzheimer disease. From K. Maurer and U. Maurer, Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease (Munich, Germany, Piper Verlag, 2000). Reproduced courtesy of K. Maurer and U. Maurer.

The patient is taught how to recognize the first symptoms, where to go for help, whom to seek out, and what questions to ask the physician. Practical day-to-day . . . [Full Text of this Article]

D. P. Devanand, MD, Reviewer
Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
New York, New York
dpd3@columbia.edu

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