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Information on Alzheimer's Disease
Summary: The following provides information on alzheimer's disease. Contains a lot of facts about the disease, signs and symptoms, cures/treatments, and causes.
What is Alzheimer's"
Alzheimer's is a complex disease of the brain. It causes the gradual loss of brain cells and will eventually cause death. Many people suffer from the disease. It has no cure.
Signs and Symptoms:
- Memory loss
- Difficulty performing familiar tasks
- Problems with language
- Disorientation to time and place
- Poor or decreased judgment
- Problems with abstract thinking
- Misplacing things
- Changes in mood or behavior
- Changes in personality
- Loss of initiative
- Abnormal structures of the brain
o Amyloid Plaques
o Neurofibrillary Tangles
- Age
o 10% of 65-year olds have Alzheimer's
o 50% of 85-year-olds have Alzheimer's.
- Family
o Largest risk if a parent or sibling has Alzheimer's
o Smaller risk if a grandparent or cousin has Alzheimer's.
- Genetics
o Rare, uninherited forms of Alzheimer's.
o Common forms of Alzheimer's
Treatments
There is no cure for Alzheimer's. However, there are medications that can...
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