Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is caused by destruction
of brain tissue. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has an insidious onset and symptoms are progressive. It is not a part of normal aging, it is a disease. This usually affects older adults over 65 years old. An estimated 4.5 million Americans have AD. Since Americans are living longer lives, more people will have Alzheimer's. I chose AD as my topic because I believe most of us will be affected by the disease at some time in our lives either personally or professionally. This disease slowly robs people of their memories, relationships, and eventually their lives.
AD destroys proteins of nerve cells of the cerebral cortex by diffuse infiltration with nonfunctional tissue called neurofibrillary tangles and plaques. The tangles and plaques
represent the death of nerve cells throughout the brain (Ebersole, Hess, Touhy, Jett, 2005). Neurofibrillary tangles are seen in the......

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