Memory matters: Understanding Alzheimer's and its affects on a family

Spurred by his grandfather’s descent into Alzheimer’s, neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is on a mission to understand the devastating disease, writes Marjorie Brennan

IN ONE of the many fascinating episodes in his book In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s, neuroscientist Dr Joseph Jebelli travels to Iceland to visit neurologist Dr Kari Stefánsson, who is carrying out groundbreaking research in the field.

Stefánsson, who has taken on the task of mining the genome of the entire