Alzheimer's disease Updated!
Overview
Alzheimer's disease is a type of progressive neurocognitive impairment and is the most common degenerative brain disorder. Dementia symptom of Alzheimer's disease and includes a general decline or loss of the ability to think, remember, and reason. At least 50 percent of all older adults with dementia have Alzheimer's disease, and more than 50 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease and other related causes of neurocognitive decline.
Alzheimer's is a progressive disease in which abnormal proteins build amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, damaging neurons (nerve cells) in certain parts of the brain and causing them to deteriorate and die. Because of what happens to these neurons, people with Alzheimer's can interpret their environment...
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