Finding the Right Words - A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain

"This memoir tells the story of a man's deterioration from Alzheimer disease from two perspectives. His daughter, an English professor at Caltech, describes her father's dementia, using her expertise in language and literature as a way to frame his loss of words, spatial orientation, identity, behavioral decorum, and memory. The physician, an academic neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco, explains the science behind Alzheimer disease using his expertise in neurology, articulating to a general audience how dementia assaults the brain"--

About the author

Cindy Weinstein, PhD, is the Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. She is the author of Time, Tense, and American Literature: When is Now?Bruce L. Miller, MD, is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is the director of the Memory and Aging Center and the codirector of the Global Brain Health Institute. He is the coeditor of The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia.

Product details

• Authors: Cindy Weinstein, Cindy (California Institute of Technolo Weinstein, Cindy (California Institute of Technology) Weinstein
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2021
• EAN: 9781421441269
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4126-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Assisted by: Bruce L. Miller
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, Memoirs, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Popular medicine & health, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Nursing & ancillary services, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs