Lisa Genova is a neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author. She is part of a world-class team of scientists and advocates who joined forces because they were frustrated by the lack of urgency, funding, and scientific collaboration to address the massive global Alzheimer’s epidemic. They received the highest honors at the 2017 XPRIZE Visioneers Summit. XPrize is a nonprofit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage breakthroughs that could benefit humanity. In this case, to come up with an approach to diagnose, treat, cure and prevent Alzheimer’s. A disease that affects nearly 50 million people worldwide. She's also the author of a book-turned-movie, Still Alice, which tells the tale of a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. A role that won Julianne Moore the best actress Oscar in 2015. She shares with Kathy some information about the current state of Alzheimer's research and what we know about how to stave off its impact on ourselves and our loved ones. For more, visit www.kathysmith.com/podcast.