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• Runner-up for Memoir Prize for Books 2022 (United States)

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An opportunity to reflect upon our shared humanity and the specific losses and loves that define us as individuals. —Global Brain Health Institute Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain covers something that will touch everyone — death and senior moments. —Pasadena Weekly Of special interest to both academia and the non-specialist general reader on the subject of the medical condition known as Alzheimer's. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, ""Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain"" combines both the intensely personal and the universally applicable — making it especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Psychology of Dementia collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists. —Margaret Lane, Midwest Book Review Worth reading. —Portland Book Review [Finding the Right Words] makes for an emotional read. I enjoyed the combination of personal and professional perspectives and this held my interest throughout. —Journal of the Association of Neurophysiological Scientists

An opportunity to reflect upon our shared humanity and the specific losses and loves that define us as individuals. * Global Brain Health Institute *

An opportunity to reflect upon our shared humanity and the specific losses and loves that define us as individuals. * Global Brain Health Institute * Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain covers something that will touch everyone - death and senior moments. * Pasadena Weekly * Of special interest to both academia and the non-specialist general reader on the subject of the medical condition known as Alzheimer's. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain combines both the intensely personal and the universally applicable - making it especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Psychology of Dementia collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists. -- Margaret Lane * Midwest Book Review *

An opportunity to reflect upon our shared humanity and the specific losses and loves that define us as individuals. Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain covers something that will touch everyone - death and senior moments. Of special interest to both academia and the non-specialist general reader on the subject of the medical condition known as Alzheimer's. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain combines both the intensely personal and the universally applicable - making it especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Psychology of Dementia collections and supplemental studies curriculum lists. -Margaret Lane, Midwest Book Review Worth reading.

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Cindy Weinstein, PhD, is the Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. She is the author of Time, Tense, and American Literature: When is Now? Bruce L. Miller, MD, is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is the director of the Memory and Aging Center and the codirector of the Global Brain Health Institute. He is the coeditor of The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia.

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