ABSTRACT

Readers and authors of this book alike are the allies of scientists and scientists-to-be in the fight against one of our most common and mightiest enemies, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which deprives individuals of their basic human dignity after decades of (gener­ ally) respectful lives with families and friends. As a professional scientist, I am personally grate­ ful to be able to live in the present time when scientists from different ethnic groups, some of which fought against each other in a brutal manner in the past, can now work together to fight the real common enemy through friendly collaborations or in open competition under hope­ fully true democracies.