{"product_id":"finding-the-right-words-9781421441269","title":"Finding the Right Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's.   Winner of the Memoir Prize for Books by the Memoir MagazineIn 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He was fifty-eight years old. Twelve years later, at age seventy, he died having lost all of his memoriesalong with his ability to read, write, and speak. Finding the Right Words follows Weinstein's decades-long journey to come to terms with her father's dementia as both a daughter and an English professor. Although her lifelong love of language and literature gave her a way to talk about her grief, she realized that she also needed to learn more about the science of dementia to make sense of her father's death. To write her story, she collaborated with Dr. Bruce L. Miller, neurologist and director of the Memory and Aging Center at the Univ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn opportunity to reflect upon our shared humanity and the specific losses and loves that define us as individuals.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGlobal Brain Health Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e covers something that will touch everyone — death and senior moments.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePasadena Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf special interest to both academia and the non-specialist general reader on the subject of the medical condition known as Alzheimer's. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, \"Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain\" combines both the intensely personal and the universally applicable — making it especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Psychology of Dementia collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists.\u003cbr\u003e—Margaret Lane, \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorth reading.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePortland Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note to the Reader\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Diagnosis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHitting the Fan\u003cbr\u003eThe Detective Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Word Finding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCall Me Ahab\u003cbr\u003eWhere Dementia Decides to Dance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost in Space \u003cbr\u003eTwo Kinds of Space\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Behavior\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurning Right\u003cbr\u003eThe Neglected and Poorly Understood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Memory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Memoriam: Jerry Weinstein\u003cbr\u003eA Tragic Juxtaposition\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408142639447,"sku":"9781421441269","price":18.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421441269.jpg?v=1730501743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/finding-the-right-words-9781421441269","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}