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Dementia is not a specific disease. It is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain. People with dementia have significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships. They also lose their ability to solve problems and maintain emotional control, and they may experience personality changes and behavioral problems, such as agitation, delusions, and hallucinations. While memory ...
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized in the brain by abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and tangled bundles of fibers (neurofibrillary tangles) composed of misplaced proteins. Age is the most important risk factor for AD; the number of people with the disease doubles every 5 years beyond age 65. Three genes have been discovered that cause early onset (familial) AD. Other genetic mutations that cause excessive accumulation of amyloid protein are associ...
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Dementia as related to Alzheimer's Disease
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- Alzheimer's disease: Definition from Answers.com
More about Alzheimer's Disease: Causes and symptoms Diagnosis Treatment ... Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, a neurologic ...
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Alzheimer's Disease (Dementia, Chronic Brain Syndrome, Organic Brain Syndrome, Aphrenia, Athymia) ... cause of irreversible dementia is Alzheimer's. Disease. ...
- Alzheimer's Disease Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment by ...
Information on Alzheimer's disease includes overview, news, related ... Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause for dementia, which is a syndrome ...
- Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Understanding the Differences
Explains the various types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and the differences between them; includes detailed list of symptoms and conditions that ...
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Understanding Dementia: What is Dementia? Get information on Dementia, loss ... While, Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia (accounting for ...
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- Alzheimers, Dementia & Driving
Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease. What is dementia? ... five million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's Disease or a related dementia. ...

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