Alzheimers Disease

Title: Alzheimers Disease
Category: Science & Technology
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Alzheimers Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease Imagine a person you love is wandering the streets not knowing who or what anything is! Imagine, a police officer asking you where you last saw this person! Imagine looking for them and having to always tell them who you are! These can be the affects of Alzheimer’s disease (Alzheimer’s). Alzheimer’s disease is a loss of memory and it can be temporary or permanent depending on how severe the …showed first 75 words of 187 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 187 total…the brain. By looking at the brains of Alzheimer patients under the microscope, researchers have found that they have abnormal deposits of a protein called "amyloid”. This plaque may also be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease; this plaque creates an unbalance of proteins. Studies have shown that this amyloid is neurotoxic (poisons brain cells) and is the reason why the brain deteriorates. It has also been found that amyloid conflicts with normal brain functioning.

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