Labs and Labyrinths: The Life and Work of Alzheimer's Research Pioneer Dr. Peter Davies

In the annals of Alzheimer's research, few names are spoken with more admiration and awe than Dr. Peter Davies. But to his neighbors in Rye, New York, he was just the kind Welshman in the Pink Floyd T-shirt, tending to his garden and talking Yankees baseball. Labs and Labyrinths pulls back the curtain on the remarkable life of a scientist whose humility was matched only by his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the brain.

Born in postwar Wales and raised in the shadow of po...