marrhan+Alzheimer's+disease

When people get Alzheimer's disease, it affects the memory, thought process, and language skills. Patients with Alzheimer’s have unusual groups of cellular debris, protein and collapsed microtubes inside their brain.
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Scientist don’t exactly know how people get Alzheimer’s disease. However, some scientists believe it is caused by a combination of genes and environmental factors. Some scientist believe that excessive aluminum or other toxic materials in the brain are linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease include not only memory loss, but their ability to think clearly slowly denigrates. Patients also may forget how to do simple task, and they can feel sad or nervous.
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There isn’t a test for Alzheimer’s disease. The only true way to find out if you had Alzheimer’s disease is when the brain is examined after death. However, doctors use test to check a paitents memory, language skills, and problem solving. This doesn’t prove that you have Alzheimer’s, but may rule out other diseases that you could possibly have. Also, doctors us CT scans and MRI to find plaques and tangles in your brain that cause Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer’s disease has no cure. However, there are some medications that you can take to slow down the symptoms. Such as a drug called Aricept, It enhances the acetylcholine uptake in the brain, thus maintaining memory skills for a period of time. The drug memantine is reported to reduce the clinical deterioration in moderate to severe ad (Alzheimer’s dimension). Associated depression and behavioral problems can also be treated with anti-depressants and the newer a-typical neurolaptics (Zyprexa, Ceruquel, and Risperdal).
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The goal of most doctor’s is to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s because it is an progressive, irreversible disease that cannot be cured.
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About one or two people out of one-hundred have Alzheimer’s at the age of sixty-five. Where as one out of every five people have Alzheimer’s disease by the time they are eighty. At least four-million people in America have Alzheimer’s disease.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Check, William. Alzheimer's Disease. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 1989. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Beckelman, Laurie. Alzheimer's Disease. New York: Crestwood House, 1990. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/what aregd/