Jon Palfreman
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2015
Parkinson’s is personal for award-winning television producer and journalist Jon Palfreman: he was diagnosed with the disease in 2011. In his latest book, Brain Storms, he invites readers along as he seeks to understand the neurodegenerative disorder through the eyes of the researchers working every day to uncover vulnerabilities in the disease’s rapacious progression.
“In a profound sense, understanding Parkinson’s disease and finding a cure are now my journalistic beat,” Palfreman writes in the book’s prologue.
The author rewinds the clock all the way back to the early 19th century, when the disease was first described by James Parkinson, and brings the story all the way forward to the present day, as scientists and drug developers seek to extinguish the neurodegenerative disorder. And the journey is not a dispassionate one; it is imbued with the sense of urgency that ...
