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by Niki Kapsambelis


  decision to have children in, 178–79, 241–42

  DIAN and, 206–8

  Klunk and, 157–59

  deoxyinosine, 44

  depression, 3, 5, 49, 136, 209–11

  desipramine, 56

  Deter, Auguste, 8–10, 11, 23, 30, 31, 69, 264

  Deter, Karl, 8–9

  Deter, Thekla, 8

  Determan, Chelsey, 183–84, 196, 198, 208–9, 210, 211, 279–80, 281, 284, 287

  DNA libraries, screening of, 44–45

  Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network (DIAN), 207–8, 209, 214, 218, 223, 226, 232, 233, 241, 247, 255–56, 271, 274–77, 285

  placebo group in, 225

  volunteers for, 224–25

  donepezil, 137, 144

  Down syndrome, 42–43, 45, 170

  Do You Remember Love? (TV movie), 114

  drug research, 101

  Duke University, 171

  Eli Lilly and Company, 223

  eotaxin, 255

  European Medicines Agency, 200–201

  Exelon, 218

  Exeter, University of, 118

  Exxon Valdez oil spill, 55

  Facebook, 208

  Family N, 32–33, 34, 35–36, 38, 59, 61, 65, 66, 67, 69, 129, 202

  Fargo, N.Dak., 52, 58

  Federoff, Howard, 285–86

  Feldman, Robert, 23, 24, 30, 34, 65

  fibromyalgia, 182–83

  fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), 96

  Foncin, Jean-François, 31–32, 33–34, 35, 36, 37, 46, 59, 65, 69, 113, 129

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 87, 101, 147, 174, 200–201, 221, 234, 251

  “accelerated approval” designation of, 174–75

  Center for Drug Evaluation Research of, 236

  “clinical meaningfulness” test of, 234, 236

  Forgetting, The: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s (documentary), 103–4

  Fox, Michael J., 102

  fracking, 193

  Francom, Claire Kennedy, 241, 242, 259, 263, 265, 268, 283

  Francom, Jeremy, 240–41

  Frankfurt Asylum for the Insane and the Epileptic, 7

  Freud, Sigmund, 11

  Friedman, David, 144–45

  frontal cortex, 64

  Gajdusek, Carleton, 40–42, 43–44, 46, 87

  ganteneraumab, 223

  Garcia Márquez, Gabriel, 121

  GE Healthcare, 101

  gene cloning, 38, 43

  GeneMatch, 286

  gene mutations, 6–7, 45

  Genentech, 249, 250–51

  General Electric, 101

  genes, 42–43

  genetic counseling, 133

  genetic counselors, 130

  Georgetown University, School of Medicine at, 285

  gingko biloba, 232

  Gingrich, Newt, 175

  Glenner, George, 42, 45, 94, 122

  glucose, 172–73, 174, 199, 211, 247–48, 266

  Goate, Alison, 129

  Goldgaber, Dmitry, 38–41, 43–47, 65, 122, 202

  Gómez, Javier San Pedro, 124–25

  Gonzalez (old man), 130

  Great Northern Railroad, 16

  Gruner, J. E., 32, 34

  Haldol, 90

  Halliburton, 16

  hallucinations, 5

  Harvard University, 23

  Harvey, Mike, 215

  Harvey, Robin Miller, 133, 158, 178–79, 215–16, 244

  Hayflick phenomenon, 33

  Hayworth, Rita, 4

  HDL, 220–21

  head trauma, 236

  Health and Human Services Department, US, 148

  heart disease, 4, 275

  Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 40

  Heston, Charlton, 4

  Heston, Leonard, 60–61, 64, 66, 68, 79

  hippocampus, 235

  histology, 60

  HIV patients, 222

  Ho, Carole, 250

  Hofmann, Albert, 56

  homozygotes, 131

  Hornstein, Amber, 137, 242–44

  Hornstein, Cole, 137, 243

  Hornstein, Karla DeMoe, 16, 17–18, 19–20, 25, 26, 27–28, 29, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56, 58–59, 62, 67–69, 71, 72, 77, 78, 83, 85, 89, 103–5, 106, 107, 108–9, 111–12, 116, 119, 121, 122–23, 133, 139–40, 154, 156, 157, 160, 178, 181, 182–83, 184, 190, 194, 196, 197, 207, 224, 244, 267, 270–71, 272, 276, 278, 279, 282, 284, 289

  and Brian’s move to locked facility, 161–63

  as caretaker for family, 186–87, 208, 242–44

  childhood memories of, 63–64

  as free of Alzheimer’s mutation, 137–38

  Gail’s death and, 281–82

  Heston letter received by, 68, 79

  marriage of, 53

  Moe’s death and, 62–64

  in move to Fargo, 52–53

  parenting style of, 58

  power of attorney held by, 161, 186

  relationship with Moe of, 53–54

  stress in, 239–40

  Hornstein, Matt, 52–53, 58, 62, 72, 77, 78, 137–38, 180, 182, 208, 243, 289

  House of Representatives, US, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of, 148–49

  Huntington’s disease, 5

  Hydergine, 56, 57

  hypertension, 56

  Hyslop, Peter St. George, 35–36, 59, 65–66, 69–70, 129, 202

  Indiana University, 108

  “In Flanders Fields” (McCrae), 278

  Insel, Thomas, 143, 149, 150–51, 153

  Institute of Health and Medical Research, 33

  Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos (INVIMA), 248

  insula, 64

  Italy, 31

  Iverson, Clarence, 16

  Johann Wolfgang Goethe Frankfurt University Hospital, 12

  Johns Hopkins University, 117

  Johnson, Keith, 237

  Johnson, Kim, 159–60, 161, 162

  Jolie, Angelina, 233

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 145, 189

  Jung, C. G., 11

  Jungk, Robert, 38

  Justice Department, US, 150

  Katz, Russell “Rusty,” 236

  Katzman, Robert, 37–38, 46, 56, 119

  Kennedy, Robert F., 229

  Kerrey, Bob, 175

  Kimball, Nebr., 73

  Klunk, Bill, 96, 97–102, 103, 106, 116, 128, 153–54, 157–59, 162, 171–72, 177, 183, 188, 189–90, 191–92, 201, 206–7, 208, 215, 237, 243, 259, 265–67, 272–73, 287

  Koprowski, Hilary, 202

  Kosik, Ken, 125–32, 201, 202–3, 225, 252, 255, 261

  Kraepelin, Emil, 9, 11–12, 30

  Kupfer, David, 97, 98, 101

  kuru (laughing sickness), 40, 41

  Lake Tahoe, Calif., 53

  Lalli, Matthew, 255

  Langström, Bengt, 99, 100

  Laramie, Wyo., 74, 259

  Latvia State University, 39

  Lautenschlager, Hank, 18, 25, 28, 62

  Lautenschlager, Roxanne, 62, 190

  Lawson, Julie Noonan, 103–4, 112, 113–14, 115–16, 118–19, 152–53, 154, 235

  LDL, 220–21

  Leah (Dawn’s daughter), 136, 158, 178, 179, 214, 215, 224

  Leningrad Polytechnik Institute, 39

  Lewy body dementia, 189

  Lilly, 101, 232

  Lipitor, 220–22

  lithium, 146, 147

  Lopera, Francisco, 121–32, 201–2, 203, 225, 245, 248, 250, 252, 261

  Los Angeles Times, 152

  LSD, 56

  McCrae, John, 278

  McIntyre, Chelsey, 240–41, 243, 259

  McIntyre, Jessica, 107, 135, 180, 260–61

  McIntyre, Lori DeMoe, 16, 19, 20, 26–27, 56, 63, 73–74, 89, 105, 112, 134–35, 140, 161, 181, 187, 188, 212, 224, 240, 241, 258–68, 269–73, 282, 283

  Alzheimer’s symptoms of, 136, 177–78, 262–63

  cognitive decline in, 265

  fifty-third birthday party for, 267–68

  genetic testing o
f, 177–78, 180–81

  mood swings of, 269

  in Tioga nursing home, 271–73

  McIntyre, Robin, 135, 269–70, 271, 283

  McIntyre, Steve, 27, 73, 74, 105, 134, 135–36, 178, 180, 188, 240, 241, 258–68, 269–73, 282

  as outsider to DeMoe family, 187

  mad cow disease, 42

  Madrigal, Lucia, 123–24

  markers, 66–67

  Martsolf, John, 133, 134, 177–78, 179–80, 181, 182

  Massachusetts General Hospital, 35, 107, 116

  Mathis, Chet, 95–102, 106, 116, 128, 154, 172, 201, 211, 237

  Mayo Clinic, 136, 288

  MD Anderson Cancer Center, 200

  Medellin, 122

  Medicaid, 275

  Medicare, 111, 275

  memory care facility, 161

  Mexico, 61

  microtubules, 94

  mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 247

  Miller, Colleen, 133, 158, 178–79, 215, 216–19, 244, 253, 262

  symptoms of, 218

  Miller, Dawn, 133, 134, 158, 178–79, 214, 224, 244, 255, 263, 264

  Alzheimer’s symptoms of, 136–37

  as misdiagnosed, 136

  Miller, Pat, 23, 54, 83, 133–34, 136, 158, 178, 219, 244, 254–55

  death of, 186

  Miller, Rob, 83, 178

  Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), 235–36

  Minnesota, University of, 58, 60, 61, 67–68, 108

  Minot, N.Dak., 62

  Minot State Fair, 210

  Molchan, Susan, 146–49, 151–52, 234

  “morosis,” 4

  Morris, John, 206–7, 225

  Moscow State University, 38–39

  Myers, Rick, 35

  Namenda, 188

  National Alzheimer’s Plan, 274

  National Cancer Institute, 43

  National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 85, 108–9, 137, 142, 143, 144–45, 147, 210

  Sunderland study cancelled by, 153

  National Institute on Aging, 147, 231–32

  National Institutes of Health (NIH), 35, 37, 40–41, 43, 65, 93, 109, 116, 117, 142, 151, 152, 153, 275, 276, 277

  funding of, 143–44

  Institutional Review Board of, 143

  internal research program of, 143

  Noonan family specimens lost by, 154

  Office of Management Assessment at, 149–50

  policies for tracking its human tissue samples in, 147–48

  public-private collaboration in, 143–44

  neurofibrillary tangles, 94–95

  New England Journal of Medicine, 232, 236

  Newton, R. D., 30

  New York Times, 202

  NIH Clinic Center, 110

  Nissl, Franz, 7–8, 10–11

  Nissl stain, 7

  Noonan, Butch, 119

  Noonan, Dennis, 119

  Noonan, Fran, 104, 115, 119–20, 235

  Noonan, John, 114

  Noonan, Julia Tatro, 113–14, 117–18, 121, 255

  Alzheimer’s symptoms of, 113

  Noonan, Kathi, 118, 119, 154

  Noonan family, 103, 106, 107, 111, 114–15, 119, 123, 130, 142, 149, 152, 153–54

  testing of, 116–17

  North Carolina, University of, 44

  North Dakota, oil boom in, 193–94

  North Dakota, University of, School of Medicine and Health Sciences of, 133

  North Dakota State Hospital, 29, 49

  Novartis, 201

  Obama administration, 274

  obesity, 85

  O’Connor, Sandra Day, 175

  Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology, 84, 86

  Olson, Monte, 75–76, 189, 253–54, 282

  One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Márquez), 121

  osteoporosis, 174

  Oxford Glycosciences Limited, 144

  paisa, 125, 129, 131, 201, 203, 245–52, 255, 285

  Papua New Guinea, 40

  Parke-Davis, 220–22

  Parkinson’s disease, 5, 102

  PBS, 103

  peptides, 169

  Pfeifer, Andrea, 249–50

  Pfizer, 144–45, 149–50, 153, 220–22

  pharmaceutical companies, 143–44, 174–75, 199, 201, 232, 248

  drug development costs and, 220–21

  in search for Alzheimer’s drug, 222–23

  Pickard, Sherry DeMoe, 178, 244

  Alzheimer’s symptoms of, 226

  in DIAN study, 226–27

  Pittsburgh, University of, 95–96, 153, 157, 207, 209, 214, 225

  Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB), 99–102, 103, 109–10, 111, 128, 153–54, 171, 172, 189, 201, 207–8, 211–12, 222, 232, 237

  plaques, 10, 31, 32, 42, 60, 65, 86, 94, 98, 102, 170, 237

  polio vaccine, 202

  positron emission tomography (PET), 99

  Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Research Center, 211

  postpartum depression, 114

  Potamkin Prize, 102

  presenilin 1 (PS1), 69, 85, 93, 124, 126, 129, 201, 232, 249

  Preskenis, Bob, 114

  Preskenis, Dick, 114, 115

  Preskenis, Kate, 114–15

  Preskenis, Maureen Noonan, 104, 114–15, 119, 154

  death of, 118

  prion disease, 41–42

  prions, 41–42

  prison camps, 39

  PS2, 85, 93, 232

  reactive airway disease, 185, 196

  Reagan, Ronald, 4

  Red River Flood, 77

  Regina, Saskatchewan, 61

  Reiman, Eric, 171–75, 176, 206, 222, 223, 225, 232–33, 245–46, 247–48, 249, 251, 286, 288–89

  study designed by, 199–205

  Rice, Rikki, 195–96, 212–13

  Ritalin, 146

  Robinson, Sugar Ray, 4

  Roche, 223, 249

  Rochester, University of, 175–76

  Rockwell, Norman, 4

  Rose, Brianna, 163, 164, 242

  Rose, Franklin, 163, 191–92, 283

  Rose, Kassie DeMoe, 157, 163, 164, 284

  genetic testing of, 191–92

  Rose, Kingston Dakota, 165

  Roses, Allen, 171, 172, 233

  Roth, Martin, 31

  St. Cloud, Minn., 49–50, 53, 56

  Salk, Jonas, 119, 202

  San Diego, University of, 37

  Sarkilahti, Jon, 241

  Schellenberg, Jerry, 66–67, 68, 69

  Science, 61, 68

  scrapies, 42

  Senate, US, Special Committee on Aging of, 119–20

  senile dementia, 12, 31

  senility, 5, 30

  sequencing, 44

  Shionogi, 144

  shock treatments, 114

  Siberia, 39

  Sillerud, Lindsey, 140–41, 190, 194, 241–42, 283, 284

  Skol Bar, 159, 160

  Society for Neurosciences, 46–47

  solanezumab, 223–24, 232, 234

  Southern California, University of, 231

  Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute at, 170

  Southwest German Psychiatrists, 37th Assembly of, 10–11

  Soviet Union, 40

  prison camps of, 39

  Sperling, Reisa, 231–34, 236–38, 247, 266, 285, 288

  State Department, US, 246

  statins, 220–21

  stimulants, 146

  Strobos, Jur, 251

  Summers, William K., 87

  Sunderland, Pearson “Trey,” III, 109–10, 112, 116, 119, 121, 137–38, 140, 144–45, 147–48, 188, 202, 234

  ambition of, 143

  awards won by, 142

  fall of, 142–54

  Pfizer agreement with, 149–50

  Pfizer’s payments to, 145

  plea bargain of, 151

  revocation of medical license of, 152

  syphilis, 11

  T807 (radiotracer), 237, 285

  tacrine, 86–87

  tangles, 31, 32, 60, 65, 98,
102, 126, 236, 237

  Tariot, Laura, 246, 248

  Tariot, Pierre, 173, 175–76, 206, 207, 225, 232–33, 245–46, 249, 250–51, 285, 286, 287–88

  study designed by, 199–205

  tauists, 169–76, 204

  tau proteins, 6, 94–95, 96, 102, 110, 116, 126, 145, 146, 169–76, 204, 221, 222, 236–37, 247, 266, 285, 288

  tau tangles, 6, 102, 126, 172, 285

  Texas, University of, 200

  Thatcher, Margaret, 4

  Thioflavin S, 98

  Thioflavin T, 98, 99

  thiothixene, 56

  Thompson, Brady, 72

  Thompson, Debbie, 51–52, 156–57

  Thorson, Christy, 54–55, 157, 163

  Tioga, N.Dak., 14, 15–16, 19, 20, 196

  crime in, 195

  Tioga Dam, 54–55

  Tioga Medical Center, 160

  Tjosvold, Robin, 74, 134–35, 259–60

  Tomlinson, Bernard, 31

  tool pusher, 194

  trephination, 32

  triglycerides, 220–21

  Uppsala University PET Center, 99

  US Geological Survey, 16

  vascular dementia, 57

  vasogenic edema, 249, 287

  Veteran’s Administration (VA), 57

  Vietnam War, 23–24

  Vittoria, 34

  Vork, Becky, 217–19, 253, 262

  Wall Street Journal, 172

  Warner-Lambert company, 87

  Washington University, 61, 66, 171, 224, 225, 226

  Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center of, 206

  Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 96

  White, E. B., 4

  White, June, 58–61, 64, 66, 68, 69, 79, 108, 123, 154

  Williams, Robin, 189

  Williams, Susan, 189

  Woodward, Joanne, 114

  World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Dementia Forum of, 2223

  Yarumal, 127

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