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Research Paper On Alzheimer's Disease

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Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that occurs when nerve cells in the brain die. It was first diagnosed in 1906 by the German doctor Alois Alzheimer. AD is now the most common and serious type of dementia. Approximately 2.5 million people over the age of 65 in the United States have this disease. It has been predicted that AD could triple over the next 50 years as increasing numbers of people live to older ages. Dementia is memory damage accompanied by aphasia, apraxia, or agnosia which is the critical feature of Alzheimer’s disease. Symptoms include depression, irritability, mood liability, anxiety, and sleep disturbance. Dementias are among the most difficult and overwhelming of mental disorders

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