Collinsl+Alzheimers

Alzheimer’s disease is when a brain of a person has clumps of cellular debris, proteins and collapsed microtubules. Microtubules disintegration is caused by the tav protein malfunctioning and forming disabling tangles inside the patients brain.
 * Alzheimer’s disease **
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Familial Alzheimer’s counts for less then 5% of Alzheimer’s cases. In these cases Alzheimer’s is inherited just like any other gene you can inherit, you can inherit Alzheimer’s as a dominant or recessive trait. However, Alzheimer’s doesn’t always show up and if it does it won’t start showing up until the patient is in his/her late 50’s or 60’s.

Since Alzheimer’s destroys brain cells this disease can cause patients to forget how to think clearly and lose some of their language skills. Also this disease can cause people to forget how to do simple things like the way to a friends house or make popcorn and eventually destroy their memory altogether.
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They use many different test to diagnose Alzheimer’s since there isn’t no one test that could be used to diagnose this complex disease. They use tests for memory, language skills and problem solving abilities. These tests don’t diagnose Alzheimer’s but they rule out other disabilities.

The treatment for Alzheimer’s varies depending on certain traits of the patient. Even so there are only medicines for the symptoms since there is no cure for Alzheimer’s. Although some of the medicines to help slow down Alzheimer’s are: Aricept, Cognex Exelon and Razadyne
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They are currently trying to find out the cause of Alzheimer’s and how it can be prevented. They are also trying to figure out how it can be triggered other than by age. Through other research they recently discovered that chromosome 10 may boost an individuals risk of getting Alzheimer’s.
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alzheimer’s is in the top 5 leading risks for death.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alzheimer’s is the most common case of dementia.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alzheimer’s is irreversible.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is rare for Alzheimer’s to be genetic.
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