16 must-read science books like The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Jason Karlawish

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Similar categories in Dan Buettner's The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"Furat chie benit dae su mare"

-Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

"Walking five miles a day or more provides the type of low-intensity exercise that yields all the cardiovascular benefits you might expect, but it also has a positive effect on muscles and bones - wit…"

-Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

Similar categories in Shawn Stevenson's Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Stephan Guyenet's The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Other Horror Stories book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Dan Buettner's The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Louis Bayard's The Pale Blue Eye book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Peter V. Rabins's The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Caroline Leaf's Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Clint Hill's My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Ethan Kross's Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"When supporting others, we need to offer the comfort of Kirk and the intellect of Spock."

-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

"The same brain circuitry that becomes active when we are attracted to someone or consume desirable substances (everything from cocaine to chocolate) also activates when we share information about our…"

-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

"We often think of fight or flight as the main defensive reaction human beings turn to when faced with a threat. When under stress, we flee or hunker down for the impending battle. While this reaction…"

-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

Similar categories in Louie Giglio's Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind... book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"I want my life to defy human explanation."

-Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

"Whatever Jesus has won, we have won also."

-Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

"If Jesus says you can go forward, you can go forward."

-Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

"The steps we take in faith activate the power of the Spirit."

-Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

Similar categories in James Hannaham's Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Similar categories in Daniel Gibbs's A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Michael Greger's How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Sandeep Jauhar's My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"Go to where you are kindest"

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Each of us has an inner troll."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in David Eagleman's Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"

-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"

-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"

-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"

-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Similar categories in Ruby Warrington's Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Fareed Zakaria's Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Elizabeth Comen's All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Similar categories in Anand Giridharadas's The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

Similar categories in Jancee Dunn's Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Temple Grandin's Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Cynthia Thurlow's Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Frank Lipman, MD's The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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Similar categories in Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It book and Jason Karlawish's The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

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