The Parkinson's Puzzle

Name: The Parkinson's Puzzle
Brand: September
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ISBN 9780715656914 Available 24 June 2027

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After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2019, the BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones resolved to make investigating the disease part of his journalism. As his health began to worsen he grew ever more frustrated by the glacial pace at which trials of promising drugs proceeded – a cure always seemed to be five years away. But hearing an interview with the founder of the AI company Google DeepMind gave him new hope. Demis Hassabis predicted that AI’s next trick might be to ‘solve all disease’ within 10 to 15 years. AI promises a revolution in healthcare but will it come soon enough for Rory and the 150,000 people in the UK living with Parkinson’s?

The Parkinson's Puzzle chronicles Rory’s journey as he battles his condition, but it will be more than just a personal story. Through its reporting of developments in artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies, and its interviews with leading scientists and doctors in the field of AI and Parkinson’s, the book gives readers some important insights into the healthcare revolution for everything from cancer to dementia, that will change all of our lives.

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780715656914
Available: 24 June 2027
Pages: 320
Duration
Dimensions: 135 x 216 mm
Genre: Popular Science
Imprint: September

About the author

Rory Cellan-Jones

Rory Cellan-Jones was the BBC’s principal technology correspondent until 2021. He now writes an influential Substack column Always On, and through this and his Instagram account (@rorycellanjones has 68k followers) he spreads awareness of technological developments in the fields of medicine and health care. Together with Jeremy Paxman and others he began and co hosts Movers and Shakers, about Parkinson’s, which won the 2024 Broadcasting Press Guild’s Podcast of the Year award. His other books are Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.com Britain, Always On: Hope and Fear in the Smartphone Era, Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC and Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog.

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