Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure

by Jennie Erin Smith

The riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer's disease

In the 1980s, a neurologist named Francisco Lopera traveled on horseback into the mountains seeking families with symptoms of dementia. For centuries, residents of certain villages near Medell n had suffered memory loss as they reached middle age, going on to die in their fifties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525536078
• ISBN13: 9780525536079
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"