A Lethal Inheritance

Author : Victoria Costello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616144661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lethal Inheritance written by Victoria Costello and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting story--part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation--Costello recounts how the mental unraveling of her 17-year-old son, Alex, compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition.

Author : Victoria Costello
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161614467X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lethal Inheritance written by Victoria Costello and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello’s family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children. In this riveting story—part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation—the author recounts how the mental unraveling of her seventeen-year-old son Alex compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition. Eventually she tied Alex’s descent into hallucinations and months of shoeless wandering on the streets of Los Angeles to his great grandfather’s suicide on a New York City railroad track in 1913. But this insight brought no quick relief. Within two years of Alex’s diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, both she and her youngest son succumbed to two different mental disorders: major depression and anxiety disorder. Costello depicts her struggle to get the best possible mental health care for her sons and herself, treatment that ultimately brings each of them to full recovery. In the process, she discovers new science that explains how clusters of mental illness traverse family generations. Artfully weaving the scientific into the personal, Costello takes a journey to the far reaches of neuroscience and reports back on the startling findings it is yielding about the complex interplay between genes and environment that drives mental illness, and what it now tells us about how parents can trump a lethal inheritance. She shares the results of long-term U.K. and European family studies identifying the earliest signs of mental illnesses that can be passed on from grandparents to parents and grandchildren. She tracks ongoing clinical trials to reverse the courses of these diseases through early intervention with the latest evidence-based treatments and offers brain-healthy choices individuals and families can make to prevent mental illness—freeing future generations to live healthier, happier lives.

Author : Niki Kapsambelis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697333
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inheritance written by Niki Kapsambelis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer’s research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is helping to understand our most feared diseases is “excellent, accessible...A science text that reads like a mystery and treats its subjects with humanity and sympathy” (Library Journal, starred review). Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer’s, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in one hundred percent of cases, and has a fifty percent chance of being passed onto the next generation. Of the six DeMoe children whose father had it, five have inherited the gene; the sixth, daughter Karla, has inherited responsibility for all of them. But rather than give up in the face of such news, the DeMoes have agreed to spend their precious, abbreviated years as part of a worldwide study that could utterly change the landscape of Alzheimer’s research and offers the brightest hope for future treatments—and possibly a cure. Drawing from several years of in-depth research with this charming and upbeat family, journalist Niki Kapsambelis tells the story of Alzheimer’s through the humanizing lens of these ordinary people made extraordinary by both their terrible circumstances and their bravery. “A compelling narrative…and an educational and emotional chronicle” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), their tale is intertwined with the dramatic narrative history of the disease, the cutting-edge research that brings us ever closer to a possible cure, and the accounts of the extraordinary doctors spearheading these groundbreaking studies. From the oil fields of North Dakota to the jungles of Colombia, this inspiring race against time redefines courage in the face of this most pervasive and mysterious disease.

Author : Cynthia Hickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781956654400
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Inheritance written by Cynthia Hickey and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tahlia Newland
Publisher : S & H Teen
ISBN 13 : 9780987323125
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Inheritance written by Tahlia Newland and published by S & H Teen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rescue mission in a mysterious hidden realm, ex-fencing champion Ariel battles treacherous terrain, vicious elementals, and wraith-like demons who feed on fear and want her dead. To defeat the demons and free her mother, she must learn a secret esoteric wisdom to awaken the dormant but potentially explosive power of her mind.Walnut, a quirky old wise man, guides her across stone-strewn plains and wind-swept swamps, past deep ravines and quaint villages, and through a modern city enclosed in a transparent dome. Nick, the powerful Warrior who travels with them, proves a dangerous attraction. His feral energy hits her like a sledgehammer; sometimes it's bliss, but often it's pain. Can Ariel defeat the sadistic demon lord before he kills her and enslaves her mother? The stakes are high, death a real possibility. Fail now, and she fails humanity.

Author : Thomas Hunt Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila written by Thomas Hunt Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.n. Shukla
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183563949
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chemical Basis of Inheritance written by A.n. Shukla and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Harrison Shull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics written by George Harrison Shull and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetics accepts contributions that present the results of original research in genetics and related scientific disciplines.

Author : Lindsay Biga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955101158
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy & Physiology written by Lindsay Biga and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A version of the OpenStax text

Author : Benjamin A. Pierce
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716783879
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmission and Population Genetics written by Benjamin A. Pierce and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Second Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately. The book is comprised of following chapters an case studies from Pierce's complete text: 1. Introduction to Genetics 2. Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction 3. Basic Principles of Heredity 4. Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics 5. Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles 6. Pedigree Analysis and Applications INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part I 7. Linkage, Recombination, and Eukaryotic Gene Mapping 8. Bacterial and Viral Genetic Systems 9. Chromosome Variation INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part II 22. Quantitative Genetics 23. Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDY Phenylketonuria: Part III