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Jennie Erin Smith: “I didn’t want researchers to spoon-feed me the story”

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Author Jennie Erin Smith on a Zoom call

What fun to talk with Jennie Erin Smith, the author of Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families And The Search For A Cure, which was Curious Reading Club’s book of the month for January. It’s a really fascinating book about a major research trial in Colombia which focused on a huge group of people who carry a particular gene linked to early-onset Alzheimer’s. We chatted about all manner of things, including the complexity (or not!) of […]