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'My Father's Brain' memoir explores the effect of Alzheimer's disease

The book intertwines information about the disease and how it's treated with Sandeep Jauhar's own story of coping when his father developed Alzheimer's.
The cover of "My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's." (Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar about his new book “My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s.” It intertwines information about the disease and how it’s treated with his own family’s story of coping when his father developed Alzheimer’s.

Book excerpt: ‘My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s’

By Sandeep Jauhar

Introduction: They Used to Call Me Topper

We were sitting in the waiting room of the same neurology practice that was treating my mother’s Parkinson’s disease when

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