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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Can Alzheimer's be stopped? / written, produced & directed by Sarah Holt ; a NOVA production by Tangled Bank Studios, LLC in association with Holt Productions, LLC for WGBH Boston.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Alzheimer's disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. The cause of Alzheimer's and whether it can be stopped is one of the greatest medical mysteries of our time. Join courageous patients participating in clinical trials, and then go behind the scenes of the major drug trials to see how researchers target and test therapies that may slow and even prevent Alzheimer's.

Target Audience Note:

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-PG (this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children).

Subjects:

Alzheimer's disease -- Popular works.

Alzheimer's disease -- Research.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Science television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Holt, Sarah, 1956- television director, television producer, screenwriter.

Sanders, Jay O., 1953- narrator.

Mirowitz, Sheldon, composer (expression)

Tangled Bank Studios, LLC, production company.

Holt Productions, production company.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Nova. Can Alzheimer's be stopped?

Contained in (work): Nova (Television program)

Notes:

Running time indicated on container: approx. 60 minutes; actual running time: 54 min.

"Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--Container.

Special features: Inside the mind of Alzheimer's -- The second victim -- Participating in a clinical trial -- Identifying Alzheimer's -- Untangling tau.

Originally broadcast in 2016 as an episode of the television series Nova.

Music, Sheldon Mirowitz ; director of photography, Stephen McCarthy ; edited by William A. Anderson

Narrator, Jay O. Sanders.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; stereo.16x9 widescreen.

In English with optional English subtitles.

Contents:

Special features: Inside the mind of Alzheimer's -- The second victim -- Participating in a clinical trial -- Identifying Alzheimer's -- Untangling tau.

ISBN:

9781627896771

1627896775

0841887028141

Publisher Number:

NOVA6320

Other Number:

949858308

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

596422

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 616.831 Can Alzh