Still Alice by Lisa Genova

There are many books about Alzheimer's disease, but the novel Still Alice puts the reader in the mind of a brilliant university professor who begins to notice odd moments of forgetfulness and feeling lost. She is a victim of early-onset Alzheimer's. With the support of a husband and three children, she stuggles against the disease, but the deterioration is inevitable. The reader feels her despair as she is conscious of her mental decline until gradually she gets to the place where nothing much matters anymore. Genova, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, presents a very accurate and compellingly readable account of problems encountered with Alzheimer's.