My Father's Brain

‘Informative, insightful and enriched by the hard-won wisdom of experience.’

‘These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer’s. Jauhar’s prose is insightful, honest and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes.’

‘In this stirring memoir, a cardiologist ponders his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, from his difficulty separating his scientific understanding from the intensity of their relationship to recent neurological research and the insight poetry can have for coping.’

’Gripping… [Jauhar’s] honesty makes this a book that will give others what we sometimes need most – the knowledge that we are not alone.’

‘A painful but important read for anyone who has lost a friend or relative to Alzheimer’s.’

‘My Father’s Brain is at once a deeply affecting memoir and a profoundly instructive primer about a malady that now affects many millions of people.’

’[My Father’s Brain] excels in its clear scientific explanations of what happens in the brain as dementia progresses and in its authentic descriptions of the sheer hell of it for all concerned… deeply moving, especially when Jauhur describes his own sense of confusion about how to do the right thing as his father declines.’

‘Painful yet affecting… difficult to put down.’

‘With Heart: A History and other books, Sandeep Jauhar established himself as one of our most insightful, readable, and humane physician-authors. With My Father’s Brain, his work becomes still more essential. Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, he has composed a can’t-miss introduction to what has been called The Age of Alzheimer’s.’

’Engaging, well written, and gives a very personal touch from a MD confronted with the disease… I recommend it to a wide public.’

‘Propulsive… Every family who’s ever faced an Alzheimer’s diagnosis will see themselves in this exceptional work.’

Sandeep Jauhar is director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the New York Times bestselling author of three medical memoirs and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.