TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>In Pursuit of Memory: the Fight Against Alzheimer’s</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 566 LP - 567 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X693785 VL - 67 IS - 665 AU - Dougal Jeffries Y1 - 2017/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/665/566.abstract N2 - Joseph Jebelli John Murray, 2017, HB, 320pp, £18.99, 978-1473635739Joseph Jebelli is a researcher at the Institute of Neurology at University College London, working on rats genetically programmed to develop Alzheimer’s disease — specifically, on immune stimulation of microglial cells in the hope that this will make some contribution to an eventual cure.He begins with an account of the first formal description of the disease by Alois Alzheimer in 1906, whose presentation to a psychiatric convention was met with a distinctly uninterested response from his psychoanalytically inclined audience. His work was rewarded in 1910 when Kraepelin, in his Handbook of Psychiatry, used the term ‘Alzheimer’s disease’ for the first time.Moving on to describe the major research findings to … ER -